Episode #113: Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader

February 22, 2018 by Ted Mills

Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader, the directors of Point of No Return are on the podcast today. Their documentary, which showed at this year’s SBIFF, follows two determined men and their crew to fly the first solar powered airplane around the globe. (Spoiler: they do so.)

I met Quinn and Noel, who both have Santa Barbara backgrounds, at the fest and then a week later spoke to them on Skype. Please check out the trailer below and go to their site pointofnoreturndoc.com to see when the film is coming to your town.

POINT OF NO RETURN Trailer from HIFF on Vimeo.

Episode #112: Clifford Miu

January 31, 2018 by Ted Mills

After a much too long hiatus we are back with Clifford Miu, who I interviewed last year about his film Porcupine. Now he is back at SBIFF with his new short Bargain. It’s about a haunted New York apartment.

In this interview, we talk about getting this film made, his work with Martin Scorsese and Renny Harlin (!) and the rising Chinese film industry. Clifford is perfectly situated for the changes hurtling towards the film community.

You can check Clifford’s earlier work at his Vimeo page.