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#54 | Night Creature Productions · Corpus Christi Originals Podcast

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  SPEAKER_05: What's going on, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_05: Corpus Christi Originals, back at it again.
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  SPEAKER_05: Coming live uh from the produce Streamlabs studios, downtown Corpus Christi, Texas.
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  SPEAKER_05: We got in the building um Night Creature Productions.
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  SPEAKER_03: Hello, what's going on, y'all?
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  SPEAKER_03: Hello.
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  SPEAKER_05: Hey, what y'all doing?
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  SPEAKER_05: How y'all doing today?
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  SPEAKER_05: What's going on?
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  SPEAKER_05: We're doing good.
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  SPEAKER_05: Doing good.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: So, how'd y'all feel when I invited y'all to the show or when uh you were introduced to the show or you you were coming on to the show?
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  SPEAKER_05: How'd you feel?
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  SPEAKER_03: A little bit of nervous first, still kind of nervous, but we're starting to get over the jitters right now.
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  SPEAKER_05: Why are you nervous?
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  SPEAKER_05: What do you mean?
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: It can happen.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can't cut and then re-edit.
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  SPEAKER_00: We're used to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Making it look really nice.
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  SPEAKER_05: That's like we'll do our best.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_05: That's an editor joke right there for you guys.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_05: That's what's up, man.
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  SPEAKER_05: Man, so you guys been in the Corpus Christi scene for 25 years?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, since uh 1998.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: 98.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_05: So when I hear that, I'm thinking about like the equipment that you gotta have at that time.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I'm saying?
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  SPEAKER_05: So how did how so what what's the deal?
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  SPEAKER_05: Like why why did y'all start why did y'all decide to start at that time in history?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, I would say oh I what I would think is when we were back then or younger, we would watch horror movies till one or two o'clock in the morning, and sometimes not the greatest horror movies in the world.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: And Chris and I would start thinking, you know, we can probably do better than that.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and then it's just started to talk about maybe we can do better, and we can do better, and then we decided let's try to make our own little horror movies, and then it starts stemming from that, and then we just borrowed a VHS from one of our parents and just started shooting.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_03: Actually, back in the day, our first movie was like uh on we rented a video camera from Les Felser's for a weekend, and we shot at Tom Brown, and it was just us playing like zombies and stuff like that, and that was essentially kind of the starting point.
• 2:04
  SPEAKER_03: And uh, since I was a horror fan, I still am a horror fan, I started to learn how to do the special effects makeup on this guy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Nice, and that's how we honed our craft.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we we would see something in Fangoria magazine or something in those star logs and stuff like that, and that was kind of like the catalyst that got us going.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, so I'm stuck on Les Felders.
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_05: What is that?
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_05: I've heard that name.
• 2:28
  SPEAKER_05: It's not around anymore, is it?
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  SPEAKER_03: It was uh video, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was a video store, but they used to rent out VHS decks and they also rented out video cameras.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_03: Oh and you could rent a video camera for the weekend, and that's how we kind of started two VHS decks and uh and a VHS camera, and we would shoot our videos on the weekend and then start editing them out.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_05: So so you had to so you rented them out.
• 2:51
  SPEAKER_05: So I'm thinking you owned it.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's yeah, we didn't own a camera until way later.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, y'all were dedicated.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, golly, so man, so you you so you decided all right, we could probably make films better than this.
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  SPEAKER_05: So y'all just we had y'all just went at starting.
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  SPEAKER_03: We just wanted to make films, we just love it.
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  SPEAKER_05: And so horror is the is the genre that that y'all obviously liked.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's because it was the movies that parents didn't want us to see.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and uh they're like, you know, watch the Disney movies, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: We like to watch the horror movies, so it was like, you know, this is our rebellion.
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  SPEAKER_00: We like watching horror movies, and we're liking them a lot more.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's how we kept on watching them, watching them getting ideas, yeah, you know, seeing how a certain scene the person died in, well, let's try to redo that, you know.
• 3:36
  SPEAKER_00: So unfortunately, I was the guinea pig, but I mean he eventually got it all down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I suffered a couple of times, but you know, I came out okay at the end.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only a few minor burns to the face.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Anthony Diaz, Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_05: He's on Facebook.
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh he said in the house, thanks you, Anthony, Francesca.
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  SPEAKER_05: Hi, mom.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: Garza on TikTok.
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  SPEAKER_05: Thanks a lot, you guys, for joining.
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  SPEAKER_05: Wow, so form of rebellion?
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  SPEAKER_06: So you were saying, like, your parents.
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  SPEAKER_05: What do you think?
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  SPEAKER_05: Because you're saying your parents wanted you to like, of course, it's something that they they you don't they didn't want you to watch, but you're like, I'm gonna watch this anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was down over this very form of rebellion.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, oh, why are you watching that stuff?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like, you know, that's not good stuff to watch, you know.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: So yeah, so it's but it was something we enjoy doing, so it's something we just continue to do, right?
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_05: So, like, so I guess in my household or whatever, if you listen to heavy music or whatever, you don't listen to this heavy stuff.
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  SPEAKER_05: Listen, okay.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_05: I got you.
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  SPEAKER_05: So it's like it's like what you're interested in, or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_05: And it's amazing to me how many horror people are in the city.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_05: Like the you know what I mean, the the amount of people that are in here just being on my Instagram and being introduced to um uh Ronnie.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_05: Well, I forgot your your your tag name.
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  SPEAKER_05: Uh was it uh yeah, Corpus Christi Goth Girl, like she shares my stuff often and and then having the network that she has on Instagram, like a bunch of different horror people, it's amazing to me.
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  SPEAKER_05: So, y'all being out here for these people that like y'all is it's awesome to know that y'all are out here.
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  SPEAKER_05: So, and I was just researching y'all's website and found y'all on YouTube, and then I found y'all on I think Amazon, right?
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  SPEAKER_05: Yep, that's amazing.
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  SPEAKER_05: That that's big, isn't it?
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean yeah, I mean that's uh Mortha HL's on there.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Martha Hell's Apora is on there, yeah and on Tubi and Plex.
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  SPEAKER_05: Y'all even got a uh IMDB uh profile on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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  SPEAKER_05: It's pretty cool, man.
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  SPEAKER_05: So and then y'all were mentioning earlier some kind of distribution deal.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_05: What's that about like um cinema epics?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh we we uh signed when we started, Mario mentioned it earlier, but we were working on a short film called A Date, and we showed it to somebody that we knew that was a filmmaker/slash sales agent for Cinema Epics.
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  SPEAKER_03: And uh he basically said, if you do a couple more of these, then we could sell this, we can actually turn it into something that we can you know distribute it on onto different platforms.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that pretty much set the movie Morte Tales of Horror in the motion.
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  SPEAKER_05: Wow, that's cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so we decided so we had several short films.
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  SPEAKER_00: From what Chris told me, he said, I can't sell short films, I can only sell features.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we already had three or four short films filmed, and we were like, well, you know what?
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  SPEAKER_00: Why don't we just combine all the four short films together, put a storyline to tag the combine some all together, and then we'll have our two-hour features film and that's kind of how we have to tell the horrors came about, and that's how it is now, and people enjoyed it, and then we got it all disputed, and so a lot of people get to see it.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: It was a lot of work.
• 6:39
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 6:40
  SPEAKER_05: So did you so you had to put those four to short stories together?
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  SPEAKER_05: Do you have to change it?
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_05: Change because it had to go connected to each other, I'm assuming, or whatever, until you have to change it, change it around or whatever to make it fit.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
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  SPEAKER_05: And to so does it have to be a certain amount of time long to be an actual movie?
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  SPEAKER_03: 90 minutes.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_05: So it's got to be 90 minutes?
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_05: And the short film, does that have is that a certain uh length?
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  SPEAKER_03: They were all different lengths, they all kind of changed and they all had different kind of vibes to them, too.
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  SPEAKER_03: There were some that were more sci-fi-oriented, more that were straight horror, you know, in that slant.
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  SPEAKER_05: That's interesting.
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  SPEAKER_05: So sci-fi and horror, they're they're not the same, they're not the same.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh no, no.
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  SPEAKER_05: So there's uh I guess a boundary?
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  SPEAKER_03: It was a tonal shift more than anything else because we had one about a guy that goes on a date with a vampire and he turns out to be a cyborg.
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  SPEAKER_03: That was kind of a setup to wrap up the vampires and stuff like that.
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  SPEAKER_03: So, and that that one's definitely more of a light hearted tone versus you know, mirror that's more of a possession story, you know, that kind of thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: But we definitely wanted the South Texas vibe in the film.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay, okay, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's why we had El Kukui.
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay, oh, right, right, right.
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  SPEAKER_05: El Kukui.
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  SPEAKER_03: So we had we tried to kind of do a blender of a bunch of different ideas and genre uh attempts and one, you know, sci-fi fantasy horror, essentially.
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  SPEAKER_05: So so so again, you decided on doing keeping it South Texas just cuz, or I mean it's just our just the thing that we don't see a lot of that you know, Latino filmmakers going out.
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  SPEAKER_03: I think we were the first ones to actually do a Kikue short film.
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  SPEAKER_05: So in in horror form or whatever, yeah.
• 8:17
  SPEAKER_05: Ooh, that's dope.
• 8:18
  SPEAKER_05: That's pretty cool, man.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_05: So you're and you and y'all do like uh like screenings and showings, like do you uh contests, I guess you can call them.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_05: Is that what you call them?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we've done uh we've done contests, we've done sh film festivals and film festival, yeah.
• 8:32
  SPEAKER_05: That's what I'm thinking about.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_05: So uh so what are some like what are some of the um other type do the other types of shows that they show are they do they are they kind of the same to y'all or whatever?
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_05: Do you have do you try to have your dis own distinct like voice, I guess, to it?
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_05: Like because you said the South Texas feel right.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_05: Do you feel like you have to have that?
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think it's just part of our identity as filmmakers, um I would say.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_03: And I I felt like that was kind of what we tried to do with El Kakoui.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I think that um I see like what Chris was saying is that we don't see a lot in mainstream uh with uh there are some Latin-based movies out there, right?
• 9:12
  SPEAKER_01: But the ones I've seen stray away from the story or don't tell the story like I was told.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, there is a couple of Kukui movies out there that people have made.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I think there was one on sci-fi, but didn't really touch the story of Kukui.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: There wasn't talking about Kukui.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: I grew up with my grandmother tells me, hey, you don't behave, you know, Kukui's gonna get you, you know.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_01: And that's how we grew up, and uh scared the crap out of me.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I would listen to my grandmother and she tell me that stuff.
• 9:36
  SPEAKER_01: So that stuck in my head.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: But then as time went on and I was doing research for the part, because I played Kukui in the in the movie part in the meta uh movie, uh I did a little research about uh what the story really was, and that kind of intrigued me that hopefully in sometime in the future we're running the park in the shape of a standalone Kukoui movie that will more or less talk about his you know where he came from, you know, the his backstory, and then bring it into the press, and that's what we're trying to do.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so that's and it it's very important, I think, is that that we as Latinos show what we grew up with, what what our background is we don't see a lot in cinema.
• 10:14
  SPEAKER_01: There's it's you know, here and there you'll see some things on TV and stuff, but for the majority, you gotta go look for 'em.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: Or uh you have to go into Spanish networks and stuff.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: I think that uh maybe we're that's what we're trying to do is highlight the Latino culture, Latino culture and and other things.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: It's just not just with Kukui, there's other things, just uh us being Latinos brings that to the to the movie itself or film products that we're doing.
• 10:37
  SPEAKER_05: It's almost like it's underground too.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_05: That makes me think about how it's just underground your studio what y'all are doing.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_05: And a lot of production companies are like that.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_05: And it seems like that that only certain production companies are actually seen.
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_01: You kind of have to be uh either really, really big or small because in between get squished.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: I mean you're just competing against major studios, so independent have a little bit more leeway with uh people who are you know in uh sag and have uh you know in their union and stuff.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_01: We're a little bit we can get people that are not in the union and we can do things that are that maybe the bigger production companies couldn't get away with, I guess.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and because and we've and which was good about Chris and and Lewis and and for that matter Oscar, we've learned to find, especially me in the last few years, learned how to do what we have.
• 11:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's kind of hard to sometimes uh to uh put a production together and make it look really good.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_01: If you go back and look at Winter, I mean it's it's we had no budget, and you couldn't tell if you go look at the the effects on it.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: They're really legit.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, they're top-notch for not having any money to do this movie.
• 11:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh a lot of it's noise and sound and a lot of faking and things that you don't really see is more of in your head that you get out of that movie.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_01: But I think that uh Dave did a lot with nothing, and it's it's amazing.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_01: You go back and look at that movie, it's very impressive.
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_01: And that's 2017.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_01: I mean what we're doing now, we're advancing into uh a bigger, a bigger step and into more visual effects and those kind of things.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_05: Right on, right on.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_05: Anthony Guzman says, Hi, Uncle Dr.
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_05: Uncle Dr.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_05: Scott.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, in the house.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_01: I was in I was in a play last year, uh the Rocky Horror show.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_01: I played Dr.
• 12:18
  SPEAKER_01: Scott and Anthony's uh he was my nephew, Eddie.
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_01: He plays Eddie in there, so he's my nephew in the is that at the Harbor Playhouse.
• 12:25
  SPEAKER_01: Or was that the Aurora Theater?
• 12:26
  SPEAKER_01: Aurora, yeah, yeah.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: So I did that.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_01: It was it was a great time.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I played guitar at uh uh the one over here for like maybe like one show.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_05: I think it was Oklahoma or something like that.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, for uh just that one time and some people asked me to play that one, but uh, they went me to play bass.
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_05: I was like, I don't really know bass.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, it's cool is that they have a live band, so it's always cool.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_01: They do they play with live music, so that's really good.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's not done a lot, so yeah.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_05: Just looking at you, bro.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_05: I I'll be scared of your your character and the whatever it was they'll be.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, go look at the go on the website, my picture's on the so handsome, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 13:00
  SPEAKER_00: So uh Mario really suffered with that film because if we see the film, he's wearing a black leather jacket.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: And and if everybody who are filmmakers know that audio is very important, so we have to shut off the AC in most of those rooms, so it starts getting really hot.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: So Mario was a trooper on that film.
• 13:22
  SPEAKER_00: He was just like, you know, after he said Chris has cut, I'm like, Mario, what do you mean the jacket?
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I can't see that thing off of me now.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_01: This is a really heavy woman's jacket.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: It was a woman's uh long coat.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_01: That I just happened to find at the garage still the day we started filming.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_01: That was crazy.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that was on with this long wig, and then of course the prosthetics on, and this house with no air conditioned, and and no, it was October, November, still kind of warm.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so yeah, after two, ten minutes we had to stop because I'm starting to sweat, and we had to take ten minutes to pat me down and get me some air, and then go back and do it.
• 13:54
  SPEAKER_01: So it was kind of one of those things.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_01: That's why it took so many times to do it.
• 13:57
  SPEAKER_01: That yeah, we all did it on the weekends.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't any, it was all of labor of love because we all are doing all our time off and uh on through a long seven, eight-hour shoot sometimes.
• 14:07
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, I said I had a great time.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'll do it again.
• 14:09
  unknown: Yeah.
• 14:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'll do it again.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_05: So you, Chris, you learn how to do makeup through magazines.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I was an avid Fangoria reader back in the 90s.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_03: It was it was a different vibe back in back in the day.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_03: There wasn't a whole lot of us, you know.
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_03: So it was whatever we could find, any of the videos, any of the Fangoria magazines, makeup books, and stuff like that.
• 14:29
  SPEAKER_03: We ch we basically tackled it.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_05: See, uh self-taught, very self-taught, yeah.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_05: Fan and Fangoria, that is that still around?
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, it's still around.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, okay, and it's so it's a popular, I guess, magazine for horror frenetics, yeah.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_05: Does it teach about production as well?
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: Or I mean does it no, but it kind of they interview the filmmakers and they talk a little bit about the process of making the films, and sometimes they would get into the logistics of making horror movies, and especially in the late 80s, early 90s, censorship was a big issue at that point.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, it was kind of a you know, you you could see where making a film takes a lot of work.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_00: And and that's kind of where whenever with the Fangorias, you know, we were able to see some of these films back in the 70s and go, that looks pretty cool.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: What's the name of this film?
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_00: And we'll go try to find it, yeah, and rent it.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: And when we find it, rent it and see it, and we're like, oh, and then we start learning that way.
• 15:25
  SPEAKER_00: We because the Fangoria magazine will give you Italian horror movie or filmmakers, you know, all sorts of different types of them, and then we start let's go get that movie and see what it's all about.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we would watch like Deep Red and like Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, you know.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_03: These are producer names, yeah, directors, directors.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_03: We watch Zombie and uh and these are from the 70s, uh late 70s, early 80s.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_05: Oh what y'all think do y'all do y'all get into like uh like Vincent Price?
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_05: He I is he like a horror guy?
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but uh we watched like House of Wax and The Tingler, all the stuff from the 60s, 70s, 80s, you know, as much as we could absorb at the time.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, right on.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_05: So and you and I don't know if we brought this up, but you guys knew each other in high school, right?
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_05: That is that how y'all got introduced?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_05: No, or or oh oh yeah, far back before that.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we grew up uh we I grew up uh across the street from Chris, so and then we went to our went to elementary school together, so I've known him since going to elementary school.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_05: So nice.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_05: That's cool.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_05: And do y'all have brothers and sisters?
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: Or uh I have two sisters.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_03: I have a sister, but she's passed away, and I have a half-sister and a stepbrother.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_05: Oh man, sorry to hear that.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_05: But yeah, so y'all are pretty much brothers.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're and the movies also just really kind of gave us an excuse to hang out with Oscar and Jason and all our friends.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: You know, it was just an excuse for us to oh yeah do things, you know, make movies and be silly and nerd out about it, nerd out about making it.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_05: Speak out about it, yeah.
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, dude.
• 16:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you gotta have some kind of like network system, you know what I mean, to help continue to, you know, I guess progress as people I think, you know what I mean.
• 17:04
  SPEAKER_05: I'm into uh shoot, man, music basically.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_05: I got a degree in music, so just being around musicians is is helpful for me.
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_05: Uh but yeah, man, that's awesome, dude.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_05: It's like a tribe or a band, it's kind of the same vibe.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_05: Exactly.
• 17:18
  SPEAKER_05: And then of course you got tribes that don't like other tribes, you know what I mean?
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_05: You could get into that or whatever.
• 17:24
  SPEAKER_05: Right on.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, so uh you have an upcoming project called Project Evil Inheritance?
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yes, we do.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 17:32
  SPEAKER_05: So what's going on there?
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_01: Chris wrote a screenplay called Evil Inheritance, and uh it's basically I'll just do a little summary without giving too much away.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_01: Um uh evil house kind of doorway to hell kind of place, and um things happen bad when the little girl was younger and she inherits a house from her parents, and then things go kind of crazy from there.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_01: Uh don't want to give it a lot of way because there's a lot of things that happen, but that's kind of the gist of it.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_05: So it's a screenplay originally written for oh screenplay, okay.
• 18:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, cool.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, wow, that's awesome, man.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_05: That's cool.
• 18:08
  SPEAKER_05: So, how do you how do you go about funding the the film?
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_05: Do you use your own money?
• 18:14
  SPEAKER_05: Do you ask for donations?
• 18:15
  SPEAKER_05: Like, how do you do you need you obviously need to fund the film, right?
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, all the above you just said, yes.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_05: So all those together.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_00: Fundraising, our own money.
• 18:24
  SPEAKER_00: Um, we're right in the process trying to get some grants for free money.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: So and we so fundraisers pop-ups we're doing, you know, that's what we try to do is try to get donations, you know, you know, screenings for donations, so we can at least be able to pay our be able to pay all our actors.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: We have the writing makeup effects and everything.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: So, yes.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, that's awesome.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_05: So, y'all got y'all got to go through uh actual actually testing out different actors and stuff like that, too, right?
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah, we're in the middle of the audition process.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, all right, all right.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_05: So, what are y'all looking for currently?
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_05: Uh just different does it is that okay to ask?
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you can you're welcome to ask them.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, Mario's the casting director, but yeah.
• 19:05
  SPEAKER_01: Um right now we're looking for pretty much if you go to the website, Night Creatures Productions.com, uh there's a page for Evil Inheritance.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there all the character descriptions are on there.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_01: So something that somebody might be able to think that hey, I might do well doing that uh as a character and want to give an audition, they're happy to send us an email.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my email is nightcreaturecasting at gmail.com.
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: That's the the one we use for all our audition stuff.
• 19:31
  SPEAKER_01: So just if you have a resume or you want to try, and even if it's not for this, for something in the future, we'll we keep everybody in in file.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_01: So that way in case something else happens or we need an extra person, we can we can call somebody.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_01: So looking for some local people who want to, you know, if they've never done it before, if they've done it before, that's great.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_01: We're looking for some extra extras, but that'd be further on when we do the production stuff.
• 19:53
  SPEAKER_01: But uh if you just male, female, if you want to try out uh Lair's description, like I said, on the website, and if it fits you, you know, send me an email and we'll take a look at you.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: We are in the process of still auditioning some people, but then we've already done it uh a few weeks ago.
• 20:08
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but we're always looking for new people.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_05: So no spam, right?
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_05: No, don't don't spam don't don't spam again, please.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_05: Don't don't spam time for that.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: This resume is please, thanks.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, John.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's what's up, dude.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_05: So do do y'all have like a release date?
• 20:23
  SPEAKER_05: Do you do you set a release date?
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_05: Like, okay, this is but about the time we have to have it done.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_05: Do you do that for yourself?
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_03: Or kind of a floating deadline right now.
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_03: And I think the thing with this project, too, is like, you know, we're we're trying to do something a little bit more ambitious and a little bit more linear.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_03: So we want to make sure that we're you know getting the right proper resources to realize what we're trying to accomplish here.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_05: Crazy.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_05: And there's definitely a lot of planning, seems like going on.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of planning.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's what's uh uh keeping up the great work, Thomas Greenley says, Yoga mark.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_05: So speaking of yoga, you guys got uh something coming up?
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, uh so we're gonna be having goth yoga, and it's gonna be on uh April the 20th over at the Corpus Christian Wellness Center and Tangalini.org is gonna be hosting the yoga, and we're gonna have vendors and we're gonna have food trucks and we're gonna have a screening of our uh short film that we just did recently called Nosebleed, so we'll be able to get to see that film there too.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: And it's it's be fun, it's from 5 30 to 7 30, you know, and just come out hang out with us, and we're also doing a fundraiser for the film, so we want to make sure that you know people that are interested in being involved with the project that that will be there, and we'll also have raffling for certain items as well.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, definitely.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, April twenty, April twentieth, you guys.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: April twentieth, yes.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, sorry, though you're gonna say something.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, Lord Scuba Cabra, what's up, man?
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_05: He said, What's up, homie Chris?
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_05: What's going on?
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_05: All right, uh yeah, scuba scuba and scuba.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: She was he was in the scuba seat?
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_03: No, yeah, we are putting the film together, actually.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_05: Oh no kidding.
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_03: All right, yeah.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Couple of films actually.
• 22:01
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, cool.
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_05: Horror film?
• 22:02
  SPEAKER_05: Also, obviously.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, another horror film.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: Surprise.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_00: Surprise.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: Surprise.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_05: Have you tried other genres?
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: But surprise, Nosebleed is not a horror film.
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's the only one that you said.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: Nosebleed is not a horror film.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_03: No kidding.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_03: It is not.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_03: It is a dark comedy.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_05: A dark comedy.
• 22:17
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_05: So is that something that y'all just recently ventured out to do?
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_00: Or well, that was something that Chris said that he was in a situation, and what you're seeing on the screen is kind of like where he went through a type of situation like that.
• 22:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's like kind of a blender of a whole bunch of things that had happened.
• 22:35
  SPEAKER_03: And I was just like, oh, you know, this is kind of a weird situation.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_03: It might make an interesting movie.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I felt like, you know, it'd been a while since we had worked on something, so I felt like we needed to get back into that um that mindset by making a film.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_05: So I guess pulling up on your your personal, I guess, situations is helpful to put into a or helpful or easier to put into a film.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_03: They always say that write what you know.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_03: You know, so if you can kind of take an experience and make it cinematic, or you know, if you're in a particular type of genre and you you just love it and you have ideas for it, yeah, you just write what you know.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_05: So so obviously there's there's a recent uh regarding AI and like uh chat GPT, basically, how do y'all feel about that coming out?
• 23:19
  SPEAKER_05: Because you could just be like, hey, write me a horror film or whatever.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_05: What do you what do you think about that?
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I would say it's another tool.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_03: I just don't think everybody understands the tools and how it'll be applied.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_03: It's just like I we've been around so long too.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we started on tape-to-tape, and then we've gone to mini DV and then digital and then full digital and stuff like that.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_03: The everything evolves over time.
• 23:42
  SPEAKER_03: The editing, the the way, but the the basis of making a film and the basis of making a story come to life, that never really changes and stuff like that.
• 23:50
  SPEAKER_03: That's just one more layer of things that you'll add on top of the process of creating.
• 23:55
  SPEAKER_05: So so don't rely on it, but use it, but don't rely on it, would you say?
• 24:00
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_03: You just think of any kind of horror movie you've watched that has way too much CGI in it, and they don't balance the practical with all the other elements of telling the story, and it gets lost or it becomes very shallow.
• 24:13
  SPEAKER_03: And that's a big problem, you know.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_03: And that that will also be a problem with AI too.
• 24:17
  SPEAKER_03: If you don't apply it in a correct way and you just kind of use it to get through or eat by something, it'll be just as sloppy as anything else.
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_05: You had an idea, Maya?
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, what was your thoughts on Late Night with the Devil?
• 24:29
  SPEAKER_03: I liked it.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_03: I I thought the ending was abrupt, but other than that, I thought the movie was really good.
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_03: It was a good movie.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_05: Was it called Maya?
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_04: Late Night with the Devil.
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_04: Late Night with the Devil.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, generated some images and AI on the film, but it's it's very sparse and it's not it doesn't detract from the film at all.
• 24:48
  SPEAKER_01: I don't the fact that you had to point them out to me to for people to understand whether we're not real or what it's AI.
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, it wasn't that much of the film.
• 24:55
  SPEAKER_01: Now, if you say write me a film and this is what I want, and then then you go with that, and that's a little different.
• 25:01
  SPEAKER_01: I think that's cheating and maybe do some editing or whatever.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, if you use I'm stuck in a scene and I need to figure out a way to get out of this situation in the scene, and you give that information and it gives you an idea, and then you write something from that, that's okay.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_01: Right.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_01: But if you're gonna come, hey, write me the scene word for word for word, verbatim, uh I think it's a little cheating.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so kind of yeah, I got you.
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_05: So I kind of agree, like, use it, but don't really rely on it.
• 25:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you still gotta be creative, also.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
• 25:29
  SPEAKER_05: That's cool.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_05: So, man, making films in corpus for 25 years.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_05: Um so you got zombie walk?
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_05: What's going on there?
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_05: Is it part of our walk?
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_00: So our friend Will Diaz owns Comic Junkie, Toy and Comic Junkie.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: Toy and Comic Junkie, and uh he came up with the idea, he said he wanted to do like a zombie walk on May the 4th, and then um the day after, he's gonna have free comic book day, so he gives away free comic books over there.
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_00: So and they're toying with the idea to do a zombie walk, and also they're thinking maybe zombies versus heroes.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people come in in their own hero costume or come in in your own zombie costume and they do a little walk or uh do a zombie walk and then celebrate, you know, May the 4th, and then free comic book day the next day.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I believe it's a collaboration between them and Suicidal Butterfly, and we're gonna be involved too.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_03: I think we're gonna do like a like we're gonna raffle off a makeup or something.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_03: We're still working out the logistics of our involvement.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_05: But man, that's that's so you got you gotta constantly be involved, and this is to help off obviously market your stuff and to help yeah, brand awareness for us.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's interesting, man.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_05: So how do you find yourself?
• 26:42
  SPEAKER_05: Uh I mean, I guess that's one of the ways that you market your your production company.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_05: Like, how do you find yourself doing that?
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_05: Because obviously we have social media now too, and you have a YouTube channel that Instagram, how do you find yourself going about that?
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_03: Uh basically, I think a lot of what we have to do is you know kind of build awareness of what we're trying to do, get the word out to people.
• 27:01
  SPEAKER_03: This is just another perfect example of us communicating with you about what our ideas are and what we're trying to accomplish and getting people behind the idea.
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_03: So um it's hard to stand apart from every everybody, too.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_03: So we kind of have to find our own little niche.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_03: And of course, we are a team, it's just not me, it's it's all of us, you know.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_03: We're all involved, we all have our part in this production.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_05: So yeah, right on.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, thanks a lot, Kaylee Diaz.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_05: She's talking about AI being a great tool.
• 27:29
  SPEAKER_05: Uh uh where you're going to be passionate about, and magic comes from it's yourself.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_05: I can't read it, or I can't read from there.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_05: And then Thomas Greenley says, May the force be with you.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, we're also basically.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_03: Are y'all Star Wars fans?
• 27:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 27:43
  SPEAKER_05: Right on.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_03: And Transformers and quite a few other ideas behind that too.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_05: So yeah, so uh, so we got some questions that on a post recently I was that was asking them what to ask y'all.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_05: And then I got a question here that says um regarding film directors and writers, what film directors or script writers uh do you admire and why?
• 28:05
  SPEAKER_03: Me personally, I'm a huge George A.
• 28:08
  SPEAKER_03: Romero fan.
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_03: Uh I we just recently saw Dawn of the Dead, and that's a perfect example of taking what you got, knowing what you do, and making a great story, and and it's lived on 45 years later.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_03: Um great filmmaker.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_03: Uh also Robert Rodriguez, you know, another guy that made El Mariachi for a shoestring, you know, uh Kevin Smith also with clerks.
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_03: That that would be my top three right there.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, and I would say Chris covers some of the ones I would like, like Robert Rodriguez and um George Romero, too.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_00: So I mean those are one of my two favorites.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_05: So they're mainly like Latino or Hispanic, the names, right?
• 28:45
  SPEAKER_05: I see going there.
• 28:50
  SPEAKER_03: Lucio Fulci, uh yeah.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_03: So you just like their style, right?
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_03: I mean their style, their stories.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, right on.
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so we got another one here.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, what are what are the main hurdles that uh that you face when filming a new film in Corpus Christi?
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I would say one of the hurdles we were we face most of the time is location, you know, where we can shoot at and how long we have this location for.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I would say 20 years ago when we're doing making the films, and we can usually just go to someone, a manager, and go, is okay, we're shooting your theater for about two or three hours.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: Sure, no problem.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: Now it's more like, well, you have to call our corporate office, and it's gonna be like almost uh maybe$900 for the first hour.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_00: And so it becomes more challenging of networking, uh talking to other people on the scene who knows who can do us a favor or you know, go back to our roots where at Del Mar.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: And as for example, Nosebleed, uh, we got a hold of Kim Fredericks, one of our old teachers from uh Del Mar.
• 29:56
  SPEAKER_00: And we asked him, is there a way we can use uh the theater or to shoot a bit a movie?
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_00: And he said, Well, let me think about it, and then eventually he said, Yeah, sure, no problem.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: But of course, he gave us uh deadline of how many how long we can be there.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_00: He told me you can start at 9 a.m.
• 30:11
  SPEAKER_00: and you have to be out the door, walking out the door at 5 p.m.
• 30:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, because I leave at 5 p.m.
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not gonna wait for y'all to set up, get everything out of the building.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, so I mean, I say that's one of the biggest challenges we have right now, at least when we're looking at the script right now, the evil inheritance locations where our challenges are right now.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, that's crazy.
• 30:32
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, appreciate that.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_05: Anthony Diaz.
• 30:34
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's he's got these questions here.
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_05: Here I always shout them out, man.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_05: Um so what are your what are some of your goals in the film industry?
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_05: Um yeah, so do y'all have any goals?
• 30:45
  SPEAKER_05: Obviously, you've been talking about them, right?
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_05: So what's some I guess future aspirations for you guys?
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_03: For me, it's to be able to sustain what we're doing into the next 10 years, and you know, being able to produce a project every so often, and you know, just having that creative outlet, you know, more than anything else.
• 31:04
  SPEAKER_03: And just at a certain point, you know, technology changes and stuff like that.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_03: It'll hopefully get easier for us to make projects and and we just keep advancing and keep making better films and you know, just telling the stories that means something to us.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, that that's amazing to me.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_05: Uh because you got because we're talking earlier, like we got day jobs, right?
• 31:24
  SPEAKER_05: But we do this like on the side, and it's like, why are you doing it?
• 31:29
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_05: Because it's like, why am I podcasting?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_05: I got my day job, I got my family, I could just go home and do this, but I actually want to do this, you know what I mean?
• 31:38
  SPEAKER_05: What do you feel about that?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_05: Like, is there like like what what if like would you still be doing it?
• 31:45
  SPEAKER_05: Like, because you obviously y'all don't make another do y'all make a lot of money from it?
• 31:49
  SPEAKER_05: No, you see what I'm saying?
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_05: Like, y'all have to love to do it to be able to do it, right?
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, not yet, hopefully.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_00: But I mean so okay.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we like to make some money out, use that money to make other films, but yeah, if it wasn't about the money, then we would have stopped a long time ago.
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, gotcha.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_05: Minerva on uh TikTok, thanks a lot.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_05: She says, uh talented dudes.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_05: Um uh Tom Greeley on YouTube, he's got a question.
• 32:13
  SPEAKER_05: He says, What is your favorite local folklore, spooky South Texas story, and why?
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's right, bro.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: That one um well, of course it's obvious though at Kukoui, but um there was and I'm not gonna go into it because we'll talk about it anyway.
• 32:31
  SPEAKER_01: But there was here in Corpus, there used to be called a place called Goatman's.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_06: Yep.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: And um it was off of Staples back then.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_01: They didn't have back then now we have all this stuff there, but back then it was just all fields.
• 32:44
  SPEAKER_01: There was Saratoga barely had a s a road, much less double with lights and stuff.
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: So you go past staples on the way out to Yorktown, and that area between there, there was a road that you'd go down this road, and it was into this bushes and stuff with trees, and there was a house in there.
• 32:58
  SPEAKER_01: And when we were younger, we'd say, Oh, that's a you know, there's a goat man that lives over there.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_01: My brother would throw us in our heads, of course.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: He's two years uh older than me, so he's making me scared, of course.
• 33:08
  SPEAKER_01: And so we would go down this thing real slow and and and you know it's kind of scary, but it was nothing, it was it was just a folklore, but that's that was the one here, Corpus goat man's.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_01: And I I never really heard what the story really was about this, just that it was and people live there, and like I'm sure they got bothered with people just going down that little dirt road all the way down there, so that's what that's what I know here locally.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_01: Uh other than I said, that's kind of the big one for us.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so which side of town did y'all grow up on?
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_05: Did you so are you said yeah?
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I grew up on actually when I was younger, uh right near Ray, uh Casa Bonita, which is right there off of uh behind Ray, Ray High School.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I grew up there when I was younger, uh went to Casalinda, there's no longer Casalinda there.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, uh and then became I moved over in sixth grade to the south side, uh, Costores, South Park, uh, Carroll area and Carroll.
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_05: So that's so the by so all so all you guys from Carroll, I found that out.
• 34:09
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, I'm surrounded by tigers here.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_05: Tigers on the prowl.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: Right, so right.
• 34:17
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, shout out.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I'm not surrounded completely.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_05: We have a Texan out here.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's she's off screen.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_05: We got a person off screen, got a Texan off-screen.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_05: Appreciate y'all.
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 34:29
  SPEAKER_05: What's up?
• 34:32
  SPEAKER_05: Man, so they're gonna get rid of that building, uh, the old old school Carol building.
• 34:36
  SPEAKER_05: Because they built a new one, didn't they?
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 34:38
  SPEAKER_03: I actually took a tour of it.
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, seriously?
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, oh, they had tours, right?
• 34:43
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I I took a tour, uh, a friend of ours works over there at um Carroll.
• 34:48
  SPEAKER_03: So she took us around or took me around and showed me the new school.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_03: It was very big.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, and then I went and actually walked around right before they closed it.
• 34:56
  SPEAKER_03: They had a last tour of Carroll, and it was like all these people kind of touring the place and stuff.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_03: So it's a lot of memories because I hadn't really been in a lot of those spots for many years.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, definitely.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_05: My my wife, uh, she's she's from Carol, she's a tiger.
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's awesome.
• 35:12
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, man.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_05: Appreciate you guys for joining everybody on the live stream, man.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, thank you so much.
• 35:17
  SPEAKER_05: The haunted airplane.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_05: Uh the hangar, right?
• 35:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, the airplane hanger.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that was another one.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_03: That's actually one of our horror films, uh, Dark Blood.
• 35:25
  SPEAKER_03: That was one we made in 2000.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_03: We shot part of it at the airplane hanger.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_05: Nice.
• 35:30
  SPEAKER_05: Uh uh, another question from Facebook, Mauricio Cantu.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_05: Uh what made y'all keep the filmmaking local versus going out to bigger cities?
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_03: That's a really good question.
• 35:40
  SPEAKER_03: Um, for me, it's just the familiarity with everybody here.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_03: And uh just we've been here so long, we've seen uh the evolution of the scene, and um I've had friends move away, and then you know, they get kind of eaten up by the business sometimes and they just kind of lose their passion for it.
• 35:55
  SPEAKER_03: And I was just kind of hoping it was kind of like with George Romero.
• 35:58
  SPEAKER_03: He never left Pittsburgh, he kept trying to keep making films in his hometown for as long as he could.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_05: Like you were saying earlier, like do what you know, like work with what you know.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_03: Same thing with Robert Rodriguez, he still works in Austin.
• 36:10
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, crazy.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's from Austin.
• 36:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, he's from San Antonio originally, right?
• 36:15
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, dude.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_05: Man, it it's pretty cool, dude.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_05: I wish like that our our our creatives in the city would like have bigger than what we have.
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_05: You know what I mean?
• 36:23
  SPEAKER_05: But I guess I mean, I don't know.
• 36:25
  SPEAKER_05: I just tell it.
• 36:26
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's also a good thing that that I noticed too is that we actually took part of it, and and if you go watch it in Welcome, you're such parts of the city, especially downtown, that are not filmed or not seen too much.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: And it it's cool that we used the and Chris used there's a couple alleys down here that that down here that just are perfect for filming.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: And Chris saw that and saw there's an alley in there to film, and and and what's and what's good, and I've seen some other filmmakers as well use certain parts of Corpus that you know when I was younger, I remember that actually being a functional place.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: Uh like the Ritz Theater or uh what's going on.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we filmed in there, then other people filmed in there.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but it that that's what I like about local filmers, that they know where all the cool things are at when they were kids, right?
• 37:09
  SPEAKER_01: And that this will be cool to film at.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and where you wouldn't even think about that would be a good place to film.
• 37:14
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot of places here in corporates that you could do, especially downtown, a lot of really cool little Knicks and places where you can just film a good scene.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_03: I think also, too, I'm not mistaken, um talk to Rob about this, but uh South Texas Underground, you know, they've been big supporters of what we did and have done.
• 37:32
  SPEAKER_03: And I think we were the first ones to actually screen a locally made film in the Alamo Draft House here.
• 37:39
  SPEAKER_03: I think we were the first ones to do that.
• 37:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um I don't quote me on that, but I remember it was kind of like a thing at that point, and that was uh quite an accomplishment.
• 37:49
  SPEAKER_03: That was probably one of the things that drives us too, is that we got to see our film on the big screen like that, you know, just spending so much time in that theater watching our movie other movies and then to see our own projected that huge.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's what all uh all the filmmakers here in Corpus, I think that's one of the things they want to strive to is they want to see their film on the big screen.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I guess that sense of accomplishment.
• 38:10
  SPEAKER_00: They oh wow, look at that.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: And when she regardless what people think of your film, they're watching your film, and that's the whole purpose of this is get your film out, get it watched, and see what everybody thinks about it.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, like it, don't like it, but still, I mean, you go to the movies every day, all the time.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of times you don't like the films, films you see, other times you do.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so it's really great.
• 38:31
  SPEAKER_05: Because that's interesting to me because like we the only films that a lot of us know is just big, huge production companies, and y'all, and y'all's is basically like a like an indie, right?
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_05: Would you say yeah, micro?
• 38:45
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so when did you start to like being liking actually liking indie other indie artists, I guess you could say?
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_05: Like, has it have you you know what I mean?
• 38:56
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I think that's also the other thing that South Exterground does really well too, is we've gotten to meet a lot of great filmmakers and make some good friendships and see their movies and they see ours and kind of that reciprocation of of work too.
• 39:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and that's that's really that's really really important, I think, as filmmakers.
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_03: That kind of keeps us motivated and keeps us cheering each other on, you know.
• 39:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because I we just got to see Matisio's film recently, too.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_05: Who's that?
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, right.
• 39:24
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_05: That's beautiful.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, do you think Chris is moving through uh yeah, Chris uh what's it uh I don't know his last what's it you know his last name?
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_05: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:35
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, shout out Chris, yeah, man, for sure.
• 39:37
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, he's another is there any other production companies in town?
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_05: Do you all know?
• 39:41
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there's he still has one, it's motion picture company, right?
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um I'm in one of his movies too, actually is coming out in a couple of weeks here.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_01: Actually, they're they're showing it at the art uh thing they have it on Thursday.
• 39:54
  SPEAKER_01: Or Thursday, right?
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_01: Or Thursday at the art at the art museum.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, okay.
• 39:57
  SPEAKER_01: They're gonna show it.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_01: So it's called Inside My Heart.
• 39:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and Marisio Kantu directed it.
• 40:02
  SPEAKER_01: It's a film project for uh Tambu C C and uh it came out really good.
• 40:07
  SPEAKER_03: So it's a short 15-minute Mario's a working actor, by the way, so he's looking for actors, he's right here.
• 40:13
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you got an IMDB, I bet you do it.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_05: I do.
• 40:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I do.
• 40:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, Oscar does too.
• 40:18
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, back over here.
• 40:19
  SPEAKER_05: I think we all have.
• 40:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's what's uh yeah.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_05: We got we got some people, some fans off screen, or some uh how do you say uh some people related to the production off-screen?
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_03: So executive producer, yeah, yeah.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_05: Um, let's see.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_05: Uh oh, how do you feel about the uh the set SAG writers strike from Anthony Diaz?
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_05: If you don't like that, we'll go.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, I I got a lot of opinions on that actually.
• 40:45
  SPEAKER_03: Um and it's true because I we have found ourselves in interesting waters as well.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_03: It's just that people aren't getting paid what it's like musicians, they're just the streaming is not included in what they were striking for and their rights and stuff, and it's tough.
• 41:01
  SPEAKER_03: You know, you just don't see the returns.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_03: They're trying to pay them on an outdated system.
• 41:06
  SPEAKER_03: So things have changed, they're drastically changing, and it's tough.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard, it's hard to put pour yourself into a project and then get paid back peanuts.
• 41:15
  SPEAKER_05: No man, I can't stand that.
• 41:17
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I can imagine because like I'm a musician, and musician music is just like you just turn on the radio and you got music, you know what I mean?
• 41:23
  SPEAKER_05: It's not like you can have somebody actually there playing for you and people actually appreciate it, you know what I mean?
• 41:28
  SPEAKER_05: Because I played in in restaurants before, I used to play classical guitar, and people were just like, oh, just music, you know what I mean?
• 41:34
  SPEAKER_05: And you're actually there trying to play for tips, you know what I mean?
• 41:37
  SPEAKER_05: And it it's like a for-granted thing, I guess you can say.
• 41:40
  SPEAKER_03: And I think a lot of what streaming has done for my opinion too, is it's kind of made movies almost like whereas we used to go to the video store and put some thought into what we were looking for and you know, doing a little bit of research into it.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think streaming's just a lot of going through stuff and not really investing in it and stuff, and it's kind of hard to make people care about it, and that's that's the thing.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_03: You gotta kind of build your brand that way around it.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_05: And you got the short videos that are like 30 seconds long and fighting the short attention spans, yeah.
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, man.
• 42:14
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 42:15
  SPEAKER_05: So you so you have to you have to guess keep up with the times to continue moving forward, right?
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, man.
• 42:23
  SPEAKER_05: So Anthony's got a bunch of bunch of different questions here, man.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_05: So I got Anthony, he's got better ones than I do.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_05: We got a good answer.
• 42:29
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, no.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_05: This dude, I keep shouting him out.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_05: I would probably make him a co-host or something.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, right.
• 42:36
  SPEAKER_05: Jeez, for sure.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, man, you guys have been awesome coming on.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_05: Is there anything y'all want to share?
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_03: Uh uh.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_03: Well, I mean, we do have a YouTube channel and it features a lot of our previous projects.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_03: And I think what's interesting about it is you can see the progression in our work.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_03: You know, we started very like a garage man, you know, with duct tape and glue and you know, stuff like that on old grainy high eight video because we were that style of filmmaker back then, very micro-budget.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_03: And then we progressed into as we learned from our professor Mac Iperspa.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Mac.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_03: You know, he taught us the the way to edit and you know, compose shots and stuff like that.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_03: And you can see as our films progressed, you know, we just try to advance every time.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_03: We try to do something more challenging and more daring, and you know, like and then we hope people like it and hope people get behind it.
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_05: Why do you do that?
• 43:28
  SPEAKER_05: Like, what do you why do you just what do you so I guess it's a challenge for you as a person or as a producer to continue to yeah?
• 43:35
  SPEAKER_00: So um I'll always we always tell I always tell Mario and I always tell Chris and Nostar, so what can we do better?
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: Every time we film a pro finish a project, what can we do better?
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what can we done to better to make a better film?
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and that's just more of us, you know, stepping out of our comfort zone and taking a step forward to get a little bit better at certain things, a little bit better at doing it.
• 43:57
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, what are we gonna do?
• 43:58
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's make sure we have a high end camera.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: This time that was a good camera, but let's make sure it's it is higher end, you know, give more production value to the film.
• 44:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you know, who do we have on sound?
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_00: Now who's doing audio?
• 44:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, like instead of us doing hands-on, I guess a lot of independent filmmakers, it's a one-man show.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: You the person the average independent filmmakers, a one-man show.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_00: He has he's filming it, he's doing the audio, he has everything on his on his back, and he's doing it all on his own.
• 44:26
  SPEAKER_00: But essentially, we have a good group of people for Nike Productions, you know, utilize the great people, you know, and try to make sure we make it interesting, we make it fun for everybody.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, yes, it's hard.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_00: Mario can say it's hard, but at the end of the day, when we finish a project, I know we finished Nosebleep, it was a oh, it was great because our turnaround from editing to getting that done was a short amount of uh time.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: So we always want to make sure we get better, get bigger, and see what we can do, you know, see how far we can push ourselves.
• 44:56
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 44:57
  SPEAKER_05: I think it's cool that y'all had that y'all have each other to bounce those ideas off of to help uh elevate each other in that sense.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_05: And I think that because you're saying you have that some productions just have a one-man dude doing everything.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_03: It's been done.
• 45:09
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't recommend it.
• 45:12
  SPEAKER_03: No kidding.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, man.
• 45:15
  SPEAKER_05: Uh you mentioned so many great things I forget.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_05: I always forget.
• 45:18
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, but yeah, man, that's awesome.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_05: So you got that going on.
• 45:21
  SPEAKER_05: Uh what was I thinking about?
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, uh, so you gotta you gotta put all that stuff together and make it presentable for for view for people to view it.
• 45:32
  SPEAKER_05: So, do you have to get like engineers to like put put it all together?
• 45:37
  SPEAKER_05: Because you said sound, yeah, and you gotta make sure that everything's level and all that other stuff.
• 45:41
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, so like with Chris, you know, Chris was uh pretty good at what he does, and so does everybody else.
• 45:46
  SPEAKER_00: So we record sound on a different uh different from video, or so we can like match them up later, and that's his headache when he does editing or whoever does editing, right?
• 45:57
  SPEAKER_05: Right.
• 45:58
  SPEAKER_00: But it's just like trying to find the right people.
• 46:00
  SPEAKER_00: You know, a lot of times if there's no one doing audio, it could be I'm doing the audio, and I'm the producer on the thing, and that just takes away from the producer trying to make sure this guy, the director, is staying on schedule.
• 46:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you know, it's not you know tender off a different location or it goes off in a tangent on a different something else because you know, we try to in our at least in our group of people or in our actors, we try and make it a fun experience for everybody, right?
• 46:26
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people don't want to be in a part of a film if it's not like fun, you know.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_00: So we try to make it fun for everybody, you know, make it more comfortable now, you know.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_00: So when they're there, they have no idea what's going on behind the camera.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: They don't know we're maybe we're an hour behind schedule or two hours or right on schedule.
• 46:44
  SPEAKER_00: They have no idea.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_00: All they know is they're acting in front of uh the cameras in front of them and they're doing their acting and they're having fun.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_00: And you that comes off a lot in movies when you can see the chemistry of all your actors, and then you see a movie, and all of a sudden it looks like that was a fun movie to make.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_00: It looks seems like they're all having fun.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: And that comes off when all the actors are like can have that chemistry together, but yeah.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_05: So, how do you go about making it fun for them?
• 47:10
  SPEAKER_00: Uh um, yeah, we uh go ahead, Gustav.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_03: We cover them in a lot of blood or bake them in a hot room.
• 47:19
  SPEAKER_01: Sweat for a little while.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, there there, yeah, it's it's it should be equal amounts of fun, but equal amounts of work, you know.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_03: It's I think it's you know, they they get as much out of it as anything else, too.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_01: So I can st I can talk on my side, on the actor's side of it, is that when we're doing web, I uh even how chaotic as it was, and we did have people helping us, uh, it still was a lot of moving parts going on, and they did make it easier for the actor to be able, especially for me, because when I had all the makeup on and all that stuff, it's very hot and uncomfortable.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but when I had to come back in and do the do my acting, I felt comfortable to be able to do that.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_01: In other words, um Chris would allow you to do what hey, I want you to do the scene this way and do it, and then he'll let me do it the way I want to do it.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh and and and like I said, Chris was has a really good eye for directing, so he knows what's good, what's not good, and what how many takes it to to do it.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_01: And it it's just a lot of stuff that goes along with doing it if it's not fun for the actor, they're gonna not give a good performance.
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_01: And I noticed that I never say I get a good performance because I don't think of myself that way, but uh I know I felt more comfortable and more at ease, especially being my first film, uh major film where film myself uh on set.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_01: It's it was you know, I was kind of I don't know what's gonna happen and what I'm gonna do.
• 48:38
  SPEAKER_01: Uh it's it's a lot easier when you got makeup on your face and you don't get covering your face, so you kind of hiding yourself a little bit, so you can kind of be a little bit more free.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_01: But it's cool that that the atmosphere was there for that.
• 48:48
  SPEAKER_01: And I I've been in other film sets and they're not like that.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_01: And so I that's why I kind of gravitate to these guys because they they're having fun while doing work, really, really busting their butt.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_01: And uh you you'd be surprised on how much stuff has to happen behind the scenes to make something happen for two, three seconds on film.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's a lot of work, a lot of moving parts.
• 49:09
  SPEAKER_05: So so on the on either side, y'all both know that y'all gotta put in the work.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, oh yeah, on both sides.
• 49:14
  SPEAKER_01: And I gotta see it on Nosebree.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_01: I worked behind the camera on Nosby, I was in front of it, and uh, I learned a lot.
• 49:20
  SPEAKER_01: Chris and Oscar and and and and Lewis and other people, even some of the actors like to learn a lot.
• 49:25
  SPEAKER_01: And so just doing a lot of work and understand how much it takes to get that scene and move everything across to do another scene in the same place, it's not easy.
• 49:35
  SPEAKER_05: So I really give credit to people so you and so y'all have to work with each other.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_05: You gotta tell them, hey, I got you gotta do this scene like this.
• 49:43
  SPEAKER_05: So y'all have like some like a like a uh relationship, right?
• 49:46
  SPEAKER_05: With each other, like you took has it has it progressed since oh how long have y'all been working together?
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_01: Well, I've been with him since 2017, since doing what the well after the date, but that was just the the stuff one-time thing uh uh as an extra.
• 50:01
  SPEAKER_01: But when he called me under Wednesday, we got more involved.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_01: I come from a graphics background, so I had some a little bit of skill doing graphics.
• 50:09
  SPEAKER_01: So I'd do some the posters for for all our movies, and I went back and did all the old posters for the for the old movies that they had done before me.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_01: Uh we had a and in the movie and the website, we had a comic book that we had to put together.
• 50:20
  SPEAKER_01: And so we kind of had me and Chris got together and got pictures from the film and put it all together, and it was kind of one of those things, film after we did everything, because they were actual pictures from the movie that we filmed.
• 50:30
  SPEAKER_01: Well, and so we had to film the comic book after everything was done, so you can see all the pictures in there.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_01: So we put that together kind of at the end of the filming process, and it was not the last thing we should have.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_01: It was really difficult.
• 50:43
  SPEAKER_01: Uh but it worked.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_01: If we if it wasn't for that, we were kind of worried that that might not work or come off good on screen, and it actually came out pretty good for like I said, not having any budget at all.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_01: We're paying for all the stuff ourselves and just our time.
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and that's just something I love to do.
• 50:57
  SPEAKER_01: So being creative, Chris, let me do it.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_01: And so hey, I'm just like a kid in a candy store, I'll I'll sit there and start creating all day long.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_01: So it's something I love, and so he lets me do it.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_01: So they haven't told me no yet.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_05: So until they tell me no, I'm gonna give you a so how do y'all how do y'all feel about where where it's gone so far?
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_03: I feel really good about what we've gotten to do and how we've been able to get it out to the public too.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_03: So, you know, and it's and and again, too, like what we did maybe five years ago, things are gonna change and we're gonna have to adapt to new structure of distribution, and we're gonna have to look into all sorts of different things.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_03: So everything that we're doing for evil inheritance, you know, we're definitely trying a lot of different things to make sure that we get what we want, you know, that you know the film comes out the way we were planning it.
• 51:45
  SPEAKER_03: Because we put a lot of effort in this.
• 51:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so I'm sorry, man, I was paying attention.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_05: So you were so you like where it's come where it's become, and you just wanted to continue to progress.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_03: Absolutely.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, that's awesome, man.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_05: Uh what's your favorite scary movie?
• 52:01
  SPEAKER_05: Love CC Goth Girl by Ronnie Martinez on YouTube.
• 52:06
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, Ronnie.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's always a spy.
• 52:11
  SPEAKER_00: Let's have Ronnie go first.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, Ronnie go first.
• 52:15
  SPEAKER_05: You go first, bro.
• 52:16
  SPEAKER_05: Come on, CC Goth Girl.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 52:20
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, you can go if you want to.
• 52:24
  SPEAKER_05: We got the CC Goth girl here, you guys.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_02: Hi.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_02: Uh so okay, so uh hello.
• 52:32
  SPEAKER_02: Um favorite horror movie.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_02: Actually, it's it's um uh it's depending on like if you mean uh horror from American horror, like is uh Freddie Cougar is my my man.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, whatever because we're going to my overall, it's gonna be um for for Taka Takashi Miyake?
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_02: I said I just had it.
• 52:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Japanese uh director, uh Ichi the killer, and Battle Royale is also so Japanese horror.
• 52:58
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, but yeah, I have them a tattoo of the main character uh Kakihada.
• 53:02
  SPEAKER_05: Oh my gosh.
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_02: So what's the difference between like is there a huge difference between the Japanese or is it you can tell the difference between it like the Asian horror and then American horror, even Italian horror?
• 53:12
  SPEAKER_02: No, wow.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah, there's a re there's there's just so much difference, and then of course indie horror, you know?
• 53:18
  SPEAKER_02: You're always gonna get different aspects of horror everywhere, and then I think that's what's it.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_05: So, how did you find out about uh Night Creature Productions?
• 53:24
  SPEAKER_05: How did I get to meet Team Creatures?
• 53:26
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we we we were talking about Transformers.
• 53:31
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, yeah, I'm a big Transformers Star Wars fan of lightsabers and uh then we of course uh horror, and then I don't know, we just started hanging out, and then he's like, You want to be in the movie?
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_02: Or for your movie?
• 53:43
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, because I auditioned and I'm like one of the bitchy girls in there.
• 53:47
  SPEAKER_02: So yeah.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_03: So a lot of attitude in that movie.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_05: Wow, so you got so you gotta deal with him telling you, Hey, you gotta you need to do this or you need to act or whatever.
• 53:58
  SPEAKER_02: Um yeah, I had fun actually on uh Nosebleed, and I was like, hey, can I do this with my character in there?
• 54:03
  SPEAKER_02: So easy to work with, and they're like, let's try it out, see how it works.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_02: And it did work out, and yeah, through with some uh little things of my own on there, and uh it came out, people laughed, so that was good.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_02: So now it's y'all's turn to tell them.
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_03: You want to go first?
• 54:21
  SPEAKER_03: Go ahead.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_03: Oh me.
• 54:23
  SPEAKER_03: Um gosh.
• 54:25
  SPEAKER_03: Uh my to-go-to is Dawn of the Dead 78, and then Evil Dead 81, and then probably The Exorcist after that.
• 54:35
  SPEAKER_01: Oh the Exorcist.
• 54:39
  SPEAKER_00: Um I would say the um I like Deep Red.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: That's Italian um horror movie.
• 54:46
  SPEAKER_00: Uh The Exorcist was really good, and Evil Dead with Bruce Campbell.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, they took all mine.
• 54:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I'll I'll just say three that that they didn't say.
• 54:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh Susperia was is a really good movie, the original Susperia.
• 55:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, though it's more, I guess, kind of on the sci-fi side.
• 55:03
  SPEAKER_01: I like the thing from uh Carpenter.
• 55:06
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I I I just love the makeup of that.
• 55:09
  SPEAKER_01: Uh my dad took me to see that movie when I was a kid.
• 55:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I remember going to the theater the day it came out, and my dad works all day, and so he was tired.
• 55:19
  SPEAKER_01: So back then they didn't have movies at one and today's five, seven, and nine.
• 55:22
  SPEAKER_01: That was it.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_01: And on that Friday it came out uh I went to Sine6, I remember locally, and went to watch that movie, and it freaked the crap out of me.
• 55:30
  SPEAKER_01: Because it was so realistic.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_01: The the the practical effects in that movie are so awesome.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_01: If you haven't seen it, you've got to see it.
• 55:36
  SPEAKER_01: It's so awesome.
• 55:37
  SPEAKER_01: Uh so it just uh one of those things.
• 55:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's what got me really into more of the practical makeup effects.
• 55:42
  SPEAKER_01: And I started doing that with Halloween stuff at the house.
• 55:45
  SPEAKER_01: But uh yeah, that's the thing is really top of my list.
• 55:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh John Carpenter's a great director.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, Halloween's one of my favorite too.
• 55:53
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and he's done, like I said, with somebody with a no budget or very limited budget, did a lot.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_01: And did a lot, especially in that movie in Halloween.
• 56:01
  SPEAKER_01: He did a lot of uh new things, invented things that people use now.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh in filmmaking.
• 56:07
  SPEAKER_01: Uh like if you see that first shot in Halloween when they go up the stairs and stuff, that's all almost all one shot.
• 56:13
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and there hadn't really done that before because there's no way to do it with a film camera.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_01: Digitally you can do it, but with a film camera, you want to film.
• 56:21
  SPEAKER_01: And so you've got to change it.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_01: So they on that film, that was kind of one of the things that really struck me.
• 56:27
  SPEAKER_03: Steady camera.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_03: Steady camera.
• 56:28
  SPEAKER_01: He actually embedded they invented that camera for that movie.
• 56:31
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's wonderful.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh that's that way.
• 56:32
  SPEAKER_01: They stayed, they he walked up, the guy walked up the stairs.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of one of those cameras that stand in front of you and it balances.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
• 56:37
  SPEAKER_01: Kind of like that was kind of the the first kind of prototype of that kind of camera.
• 56:42
  SPEAKER_01: It's got they've gotten so great now that you can balance cameras on you know, gyroscope style.
• 56:47
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I love I love y'all's like love for all this stuff uh out here.
• 56:50
  SPEAKER_05: Who we got who we got coming up?
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_05: Oh uh Oscar Martinez.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_00: His horror movie.
• 56:57
  SPEAKER_04: Mine's because it could be a cliche.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_04: Mine is mine's gonna be a cliche because mine's a scary movie.
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_04: I love slasher films.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, scream, scream, yeah, scream, yeah.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_04: That's what that's why I said it's gonna be a cliche.
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_04: All right, because it's what's your favorite scary movie?
• 57:12
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think everybody, a lot of people know about that one.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_05: I see that that's like one of the very few horror, I guess, in horror films that I've seen, obviously.
• 57:22
  SPEAKER_03: Self-referential, yeah.
• 57:23
  SPEAKER_03: Wes Craven, another master, too.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, it's so hard to pick.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, West Craven, that's uh he's the producer, right?
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he directed Scream and Nightmare Elm Street and The Hills Have Eyes.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_03: So, I mean, he's he's the man, he's the master too.
• 57:35
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, he's the dude, he's the man.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_03: He is and John Carpenter as well, you know.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_03: John Carpenter huge fans.
• 57:40
  SPEAKER_03: We watched all the movies growing up.
• 57:42
  SPEAKER_03: Wow, that's what's boiling in our heads, yeah.
• 57:45
  SPEAKER_05: Man, I love y'all's y'all's love for this.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_05: It's pretty it's awesome.
• 57:48
  SPEAKER_05: Like, it makes me want to like love it with you, you know.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_05: It's pretty cool.
• 57:52
  SPEAKER_05: Uh, thank you, thanks a lot, Kaylee and Marie, for uh for commenting.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_05: Appreciate you guys.
• 57:56
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you.
• 57:57
  SPEAKER_05: What do we got, Maya?
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_05: What do you got the time there?
• 58:00
  SPEAKER_05: 8 58.
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_05: You guys have been here for an hour.
• 58:02
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, I think.
• 58:03
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yes, it's awesome.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_03: So thank you for having us.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, and thank yeah, thanks to the CC Goth Girl for putting us together.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it's awesome.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Ronnie.
• 58:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_05: So uh I got I gotta have the the Corps Christi H E B question.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_05: The famous question.
• 58:21
  SPEAKER_05: Which one do y'all avoid?
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_05: Or which one do you do you go to?
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_03: I don't avoid any of them.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_03: I go to them all.
• 58:28
  SPEAKER_03: I used to work in the news business.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_03: You went wherever the H E B was closest.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 58:33
  SPEAKER_01: Avoid H E B.
• 58:35
  SPEAKER_05: Or Walmart or Walmart either one.
• 58:40
  SPEAKER_01: I don't really like that HEB.
• 58:41
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, okay.
• 58:42
  SPEAKER_05: Oh, yeah.
• 58:43
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, the yeah, the traffic in the more plaza ones kind of that's kind of crazy.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_01: I love H E B.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they want to sponsor us, they're more than happy to do that.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, if you want to sponsor us, that's more than appreciated.
• 58:56
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I see.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_01: Come on, H B.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, you got some money, I can help us out.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, come on, HB, help us out.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_05: So look at all of us out.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, so do you do you feel like the the like the I guess the corpus community like doesn't want to support or like how what do y'all think about that?
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: I think I just think the uh corpus community doesn't know what we're doing out here because for example, uh on the last screening we had at the annex, we have some people out there, and I said, I didn't know that um people in corpus are making movies.
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_00: I'm like, Oh yes, they are.
• 59:30
  SPEAKER_00: We're not the only ones.
• 59:31
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's a lot of us out here making movies, and I just feel that maybe it's just that they're not they're not on social media, maybe they just you don't they don't know.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_00: And I maybe I feel that's probably one of the things that maybe that's why we're not getting a lot of support.
• 59:44
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe they don't like horror movies, maybe they don't like movies in general, but still I think they they just don't know about it.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_03: And I think for us too, it's just getting the word out, you know, it's it's just there's so much um so much chatter out there and you know, breaking through it and without paying enormous amounts and advertisement, you know, to get those ads out there and those posts done and reposted and stuff.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's just it's just building the awareness of what we're trying to do.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_03: And uh hopefully people get behind it and we're always you know very open as much as we can be.
• 1:00:14
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_05: So how do we how do we uh find you guys on because everybody we're on social media?
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_05: How do we find y'all to get to know y'all?
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_03: Uh we're on all the social media and then definitely our website, nightcreatureproductions.com.
• 1:00:25
  SPEAKER_03: There's ways to contact us there.
• 1:00:27
  SPEAKER_05: You're all and you're also on uh YouTube, Night Creature Productions.
• 1:00:30
  SPEAKER_05: Uh aren't y'all on Tubi or Tubi?
• 1:00:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, the film Marthy Tales of Horrors on uh Tubi.
• 1:00:37
  SPEAKER_05: And then you had one on Amazon too.
• 1:00:39
  SPEAKER_05: I think Amazon Prime.
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_05: Wow.
• 1:00:44
  SPEAKER_05: Kenny Diaz, we've got a question.
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_05: Are there any outdoor screenings coming up for the summer?
• 1:00:50
  SPEAKER_03: Not that we're aware of, but there's always time to plan one.
• 1:00:56
  SPEAKER_04: We've got some uh we've got some great ones coming up in the summer that we're planning right now, so we'll make sure we put it on the website and get it out to everybody so that way they can see it.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_05: Right on.
• 1:01:05
  SPEAKER_05: There you go.
• 1:01:06
  SPEAKER_03: And we'll be there.
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:01:08
  SPEAKER_05: Shout out.
• 1:01:09
  SPEAKER_05: Uh follow the follow the follow them on social media, you guys.
• 1:01:11
  SPEAKER_05: If you just want to figure out uh if if that screen is coming up, we even have a TikTok.
• 1:01:16
  SPEAKER_05: I mean Oh, you got a TikTok.
• 1:01:18
  SPEAKER_03: We have a TikTok.
• 1:01:19
  SPEAKER_03: We have uh Facebook, we're on Threads, we're on X, we're on um what else?
• 1:01:26
  SPEAKER_03: Instagram Instagram, yeah.
• 1:01:29
  SPEAKER_03: So we you can follow us at Night Creature Productions.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_05: Right on.
• 1:01:33
  SPEAKER_05: All right, you guys.
• 1:01:34
  SPEAKER_05: Thanks a lot, Kelly.
• 1:01:35
  SPEAKER_05: Thanks everybody for watching on the live stream.
• 1:01:36
  SPEAKER_05: If not, do you have anything else y'all share?
• 1:01:38
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just a reminder that we do have uh uh something coming on April 20th this Saturday at the uh community wellness center, the the yoga goth yoga goth yoga.
• 1:01:50
  SPEAKER_00: So if y'all have something don't have anything to do that Saturday, come visit us.
• 1:01:54
  SPEAKER_00: We do our screening nosebleed.
• 1:01:56
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's only 15 minutes, so as you can sit down for 15 minutes and watch the film.
• 1:02:00
  SPEAKER_00: You uh I'm pretty sure you'll enjoy it.
• 1:02:02
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty funny.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_03: So and everything's donation based.
• 1:02:05
  SPEAKER_03: You don't have to pay, but if you feel inclined to donate, please do.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:02:09
  SPEAKER_05: You have a donation page?
• 1:02:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, we do.
• 1:02:12
  SPEAKER_00: It's on our website.
• 1:02:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_05: Okay, cool.
• 1:02:14
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 1:02:15
  SPEAKER_05: All right.
• 1:02:15
  SPEAKER_05: Well, guys, thanks a lot for coming on the show.
• 1:02:18
  SPEAKER_05: Thank you for having us.
• 1:02:19
  SPEAKER_05: Yes, thanks for coming on.
• 1:02:20
  SPEAKER_05: Stay tuned for the next uh couple episodes.
• 1:02:22
  SPEAKER_05: Tomorrow I got uh uh uh Joshua Badusco, uh registered dietitian in the state of Texas, gonna be in tomorrow.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_05: Check it out.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_05: And I got some other people lined up.
• 1:02:31
  SPEAKER_05: So stay tuned for the Corpus Christi Origins podcast next week uh and tomorrow.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_05: Appreciate you guys.