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1/5/10 Podcast:
The Paul Fitzgerald Interview
A conversation with award-winning indie filmmaker
Paul Fitzgerald – writer, actor, and director of Forgiven
Forgiven – Trailer
(1/5/10) (Total time – 40:05)
What’s inside The Paul Fitzgerald Interview?
- Listen to the Movie: Forgiven (0:52)
- “The governor just pardoned Ronald Bradler” (1:52)
- “Are you accusing me of something?” (2:35)
- “What’s dignity?” (3:11)
- Paul Fitzgerald on a reconnaissance mission in hometown,
Lynchburg, Virginia (3:33) - Upcoming projects and voting controversy (4:05)
- “People’s responses to Forgiven can be passionate, and,
equally, violent negative reactions” (7:12) - “[There’s an] edgy reticence in people to embrace or contend with
some of the things that happen in the movie” (8:00) - “When there are no heroes” (9:16)
- “Forgiven really defied marketing” (10:05)
- Innocent man wrongly convicted is exonerated
six minutes before his execution (11:06) - Peter Miles: privileged, white-male politician who finds religion (12:12)
- “He’s sympathetic to himself” (13:07)
- In favor of or against capital punishment? (14:32)
- For mature audiences (16:45)
- Forgiven: a starting point for conversation (18-31)
- What are the ramifications of our actions? (20:22)
- What is it about ‘the other’ that hits our blind spot
when we make decisions?” (21:45) - The influences that shaped Paul Fitzgerald to be an “artist activist” (22:13)
- “Politics, and the good that can come from public service,
was always a part of my consciousness” (23:30) - Acting, directing, writing: what does Paul Fitzgerald love the most? (24:11)
- How Paul Fitzgerald prepared for the role of Peter Miles (25:46)
- Casting fine “stage actors” for Forgiven (27:09)
- Finding Ronald Bradler (28:44)
- Achieving high-quality production (29:36)
- “I was a first-time filmmaker, so I didn’t realize the insanity
of what I was asking them to do” (31:13) - “There seemed be a lot of delicious restraint” (32:40)
- “It just feels better with less” (33:50)
- “Bravo, for keeping it complex” (35:05)
- “Seeing what’s not there” (35:24)
- Distribution: finding the film’s home; finding a receptive audience” (35:52)
- “We needed a company like IndieFlix” (37:04)
- “Keeping it real” with Paul Fitzgerald’s 2010 New Year’s resolution (38:06)
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Meet Indieflix Podcast Host: Lois Fein
Lois Fein is IndieFlix Filmmaker Interviewer,
Podcaster, and Host for IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast.
Lois is a recording artist, songwriter, and performer.
Her songs “It Ain’t Easy” and “Chasing the Moon”
are featured on IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast.
Listen to more of her music from her debut CD
Step Into the Water at: www.LoisFein.com
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Podcast Music Credits: “As Time Goes By” (Herman Hupfield);
“It Ain’t Easy” and “Chasing the Moon” (Lois Fein)
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Today’s edition of IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast was recorded with
audio-technica’s AT2020 USB Cardoid Condenser Microphone,
Skype™ and CallBurner; and edited and mastered with
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH™’s WaveLab Studio 6.
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IndieFlix Name That Voice is sponsored by IndieFlix -
“Connecting people through movies.”
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1/5/10 Edition – IndieFlix Play It Again Podcast
