00:25This is Tim Waspert from Fast Track Uncerted TV.
00:28I'm here in New Orleans for the New Orleans Film Festival.
00:31Well, for me, basically, the idea of making an independent movie in a country where there
00:37really is almost no support for independent arts, for nothing that doesn't really sell
00:44and is for profit to make money, it's almost like fighting windmills.
00:54You know, that's how I felt.
00:56There is no one waiting for your work.
00:59There is no one that's going to give you anything just because you have an idea and you have
01:09a vision.
01:11So it's a pretty rough place where you have to not only convince people, but also in
01:17some way manipulate people into getting on it.
01:23It's a very strange and sneaky process.
01:26And then once you get people on board to still maintain your vision and the initial idea
01:33that you set out with, while having so many voices coming in who's because they're not
01:41getting paid.
01:42So their ego is attached to it reasonably, understandably.
01:47So it becomes like a street fight in a way.
01:51And, you know, like in Tarot, there is this card, Five of Wands, which is this creative
01:55battle, creative friction and a complete chaos from which something new will emerge.
02:01But instead of a smooth process of, I mean, filmmaking is never smooth, but this type of indie street
02:12filmmaking, punk rock style filmmaking is an act of like a political rebellion in a way.
02:22And it is a street fight to do it.
02:34Maya, what are we doing right now?
02:37Going to meet the punks.
02:41Riding in a crazy taxi.
02:43In crazy traffic.
02:46What do you want to say to our friends in New Orleans back home?
02:50Is that if we survive this taxi ride, we'll be with you shortly.
02:55And that's amazing.
03:09Yeah, it gets pretty absurd because as you're trying to make, to get the community together
03:15and make the movie, there is a lot of like strange situations that are completely not
03:22related to film that you end up.
03:24But because we have such a strong community that gets together through partying and celebrating
03:32and creating those incredible spaces.
03:36Here in New Orleans, parties are not just parties.
03:38They are spaces that transport you to another place.
03:43And they're a way to get together on some other level.
03:49And often like, you know, in psychedelic spaces and stuff like that, building some kind of labyrinths or spaceships.
03:55And that's the beauty.
03:57That's the beauty of New Orleans.
03:58And that it's not just partying.
04:01It's not just about getting drunk.
04:02It's not about getting wasted.
04:06It's also community building.
04:08That's that space and that energy translates to being in it together, creating somewhat
04:16off-grid reality, off-grid community that can work together.
04:23Like people here, the most incredible thing about artistic communities in New Orleans is
04:28that people are down to get together to work on a project.
04:31Someone has an idea and everyone's like, yeah, let's do it.
04:34And I don't know any other place that that exists where you have an idea and people are down to
04:41just do it.
04:42Yes, of course, the people have their jobs and stuff.
04:44But somehow people here are really willing to just dive into a project.
04:51And of course, it creates a lot of traction, friction, complications, because at the end of the day,
05:00a lot of times we don't know what we're doing.
05:01But somehow it fuels a process that's still going to present an outcome.
05:09And I think that was because that was the process of making a movie here.
05:13It's also the subject of making a movie.
05:16All right.
05:51Do you think I should go?
06:00We knew each other pretty well.
06:02We met...
06:03Ten years.
06:04Is it ten?
06:05I think so.
06:06Nice.
06:08Yeah, we actually met at the film festival.
06:10I saw your...
06:10What was the short film?
06:11That was the film Call Me Copy.
06:13But then you invited me...
06:15Jamie used to organize...
06:15There was another really cool community event, which is One Act Plays,
06:19where you get people to submit One Act Plays in writing,
06:24and then everyone gets to direct one,
06:26and you coordinated that.
06:29It's like another way that the community comes together,
06:30and it's like people who maybe have never written a play before,
06:33or maybe never directed a play before,
06:34and it's like, you want to do that?
06:35And people are like, yeah, I want to do that.
06:37And that is like something about the renegade-ness of this town
06:41is people are just down to try new things,
06:44and to be weird as hell while they do it,
06:47which, you know, people, other places in New York, whatever,
06:51are like, what's the theater scene like in New Orleans?
06:54And I'm like, hmm.
06:56I'm like, well, it tends to, like, veer towards the absurd quite often.
07:02But, you know, the kind of theater that I love...
07:04I know we're not here to talk about theater necessarily,
07:06but the kind of theater I love is like real slice of life,
07:08where you're watching a piece and you feel like it's voyeuristic,
07:11and, you know, and I...
07:13So that's sort of a, like, maybe hole that I want to help fill here,
07:17of like, let's do some really realistic acting.
07:19But then you get a bunch of, like, clowns and circus freaks
07:23and to come, like, act.
07:24All right.
07:30All right.
07:50Let's talkными!
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