The Premiere of Mosaic Christian Film Festival - With Zach Miller

Geoff: 00:00:00

Hey there.

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Welcome back to the "Faith & Family Filmmakers" podcast.

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My name is Geoffrey Whitt.

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I am the co-founder and co-director of Faith & Family Filmmakers Association,

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along with my wife Jaclyn, and obviously your host today on the

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"Faith & Family Filmmakers" podcast

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. And with me today I have Zach Miller.

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Zach is the director of Mosaic Christian Film Festival.

Geoff: 00:00:21

Welcome, Zach

Zach: 00:00:22

Thank you so much for having me.

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I'm, I'm excited to speak with you about this event.

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I know, um, we've been talking about this for a while, and so I'm excited

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to share a little bit about it.

Zach: 00:00:30

Yeah

Geoff: 00:00:31

Awesome.

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Yeah, we're excited about Mosaic.

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It's a new festival and, you know, I was thinking about this earlier,

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every festival, the largest of them today, of course, had an inaugural

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year, and, uh, this is it for you.

Zach: 00:00:45

That's true.

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This is the first year, and so I'm excited for the guests that get

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to be a part of our first year,

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'cause,

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you know, you get to make an f- impression once, so we're excited to do that.

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Let's start with the details.

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well, even before that, Zach, let's talk about you since you're

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a guest here on our podcast.

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tell us about yourself, uh, your history with film, how you got

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started, when you first became interested, those types of things

Zach: 00:01:08

Totally, yeah.

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I mean, I'm just starting to, you know, kinda cut my teeth on a lot of filmmaking.

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Um, uh, I've been to

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quite a few festivals in the past.

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I've always really enjoyed gathering together with, with

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like-minded, um, creators

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and just people in the industry.

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Um, from a young age, I had a huge interest in, in just media and,

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um, storytelling and characters and, when I was really young,

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I actually got into animation.

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Uh, it was part of a mentorship program, television program that

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kinda taught young people about media.

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from there I went to, uh, different groups in high school where I, traveled to

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different festivals and things like that, um, all while be-being taught different

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filmmaking techniques and art styles.

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And then, um, you know, COVID happened.

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I actually took a little bit of a break from, the filmmaking lane.

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I got into real estate then post-COVID kinda got back into it, started going

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to more events, and just started, uh, you know, creating again.

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Uh, networking, I think that's the most important thing we can do as creatives

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is kind of, meet each other and be around people who are gonna encourage us.

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Um, and then in 2024, I made a pilot actually for a, a sitcom.

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It's about a homeschool co-op, so that was really fun.

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I'd love to make the full series one day, but you know, that would be

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like making two movies, so it takes a it takes a lot to make a TV show.

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I know you guys have some involvement with different shows as well.

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but I'd love to, I'd love to do that one day.

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And then the-- You know, right now this is my biggest involvement in

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filmmaking is starting this festival

Geoff: 00:02:35

it's a big endeavor, for sure.

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and tell us where you live

Zach: 00:02:38

I live in, uh, just outside Denver, Colorado in a

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suburb called Lakewood, Colorado

Geoff: 00:02:43

Awesome.

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So from there, let's get into the basics of the festival.

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Uh, location, dates, and we'll talk more about it, but, uh,

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let's get the basics down first.

Zach: 00:02:52

Yeah, the basics, I mean, we, um… This is our first year.

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It's gonna be held in, uh, Thornton, Colorado, which really is just outside

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Denver, in between Denver and Boulder.

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Uh, the reason for that is because the Sundance Film Festival, which is

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the biggest in the United States, not the world, but definitely the biggest

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in the United States, is permanently moving its location to Boulder.

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And So when I heard that,

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I was like, you know, starting a film festival was always something on my heart.

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And so, um, I just felt like the perfect opportunity to, to take the leap of faith

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and, Yeah, so it's gonna be the three days

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leading into Sundance, and so it's a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

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It's the 18th, 19th, and 20th of January.

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Um, one of those days, the

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Monday, is, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so that helps hopefully

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with people's work schedules.

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They can already have one of those days

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off.

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and yeah, it's in a city called Thornton, Colorado,

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at a Delta by Marriott.

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Um, all the screenings are gonna be held there, the award ceremony, and I'm working

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with them on getting a, a good discount on that, and that'll probably be on the

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website by the time this is released, so

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Awesome.

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That's great.

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So very smart move, tagging it onto the beginning of a very, very large festival.

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We see that, you know, uh, where other Christian festivals tag onto

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the beginning of a larger festival.

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Content's done it with, NRB.

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Very smart.

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Very different festival than, NRB, which is, uh, much larger, not totally

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focused on film, but very smart move, and they get lots of people

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who are coming for NRB, and they tag on the, the Content, one-day event.

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Uh, yours of course is a, a three-day event, but, um, I think that was a

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very smart move once you heard that Sundance was moving to your area

Zach: 00:04:29

I'm excited about it.

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I mean, if I went to a festival and Sundance was one day after, I'd

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make my group stay an extra day or two, and we could go walk around.

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I don't know if there's even tickets for, um, any Sundance movies yet, or

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if, you know, the same audience would be interested in seeing any of them.

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But it'd be fun to walk around, take a photo with anyone at Mosaic.

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I'm planning on, you know, taking a photo at Sundance with everybody the next day.

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And, you know

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Colorado's got great skiing in January.

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You can make a whole little vacation out of it, so

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yeah.

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so tell us about the festival itself.

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Uh, first of all, you've been taking submissions.

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Um, what are your categories?

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Are they still open?

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Or are they closed?

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By the time this releases, we're, we'll be closed.

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We, we are closed.

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So, um, let me read them to you actually, because we have quite a few

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for our first year we're excited about.

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We've got feature film, of course, feature documentary, short film

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narrative, short film documentary.

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Those are the biggest four, um, for sure.

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Then we've got, short film animation, um, music videos, TV

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series/um, talk show series, um, short scripts, feature scripts, and then

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students can enter in any of those.

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Um, but then we have one specifically for student films as well.

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Um, and then trailers as well.

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So what was that?

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10, 10 or 11?

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Um, and then we're doing acting noms on top of that.

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So, um, yeah, that's kind of a surprise actually.

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That'll be coming out, um, with the nominations.

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Nominations are released November 10th.

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so yeah, we're excited to announce that as well.

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That's kind of a… I haven't announced that anywhere, so if you're an actor in

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any film that's been submitted to Mosaic, you might be getting a nomination, so

Geoff: 00:06:10

Excellent.

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Cool.

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Um, tell us about, the festival itself.

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How many screening rooms will you have, uh, workshops, and those types of things.

Zach: 00:06:17

Yes, between two to three screening rooms for every session,

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and then I'm getting a lot of amazing speakers, so there might

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have to be two at some sessions.

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But, um, essentially there's four rooms that are gonna

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be speakers and, uh, movies.

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And so we're excited to, you know, just let people choose.

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you know, if there's some speaker that they're really interested in

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hearing, they can do that, and then just encourage them to see as many

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movies as they can in the three days.

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Um, they, they take place at the same time, intentionally so that

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people can network and they're not, you know, missing each other.

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Um, I built in some large lunch breaks and some large afternoon breaks

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and dinner breaks so that people can have some time off to really

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network and get to know each other.

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Um, 'cause, you know, it's a, it's a little bit shorter.

Zach: 00:07:01

It's three days, but I want people to really get the most out of it

Geoff: 00:07:04

Yeah.

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there are certainly other festivals that are three days and, you know, especially

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starting out, um, it's a good length.

Zach: 00:07:10

Yeah, it's, gonna be fun

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So regarding your workshops, tell us who your speakers are

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and what they'll be teaching.

Zach: 00:07:17

Of course, yes.

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Our, uh, keynote speaker is Andy Erwin.

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We're excited to have him out there for our first year.

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He's the, um, co-founder of Kingdom Story Company, and he most recently

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directed I Can Only Imagine 2.

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Um, he's got an amazing filmography, so we're stoked to

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have, him from Kingdom come out.

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Um, I'm just l- reading off my website.

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The website's mosaicchristianfilmfestival.com.

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Um, our SEO is not going amazing, but everything you see is us.

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So the social media, the Instagram, the Facebook, the podcasts, that's all us.

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So just, like, get your way to the website when you see something regarding

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Mosaic Christian Film Festival.

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say it again, make sure we get that

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Yes, mosaicchristianfilmfestival.com

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Okay.

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All the words all spelled out, mosaicchristianfilmfestival.com.

Zach: 00:08:04

no nothing too

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complicated.

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be easy to find.

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another one of our speakers, his name's Jess Stainbrook.

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he's an eight-time Emmy winner, executive producer of Seven Days in Utopia.

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It's an older movie, that did really well in theaters.

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Um, and he now does a lot of, digital content and helps companies

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with their digital content.

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Recently, he was a professor at, Colorado Christian University, and he does a lot

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of work with the Super Bowl as well, so he's a great, um, speaker as well.

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Um, Wally de la Fuente, he is the founder of Rediscover Television

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and The Backlot.

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Um, if you listen to this podcast, yeah, you know Wally as well as Jaclyn.

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She's gonna be speaking.

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We're super excited, uh, for her to share about, about FAFF and

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everything you guys are doing.

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Um-

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probably teaching screenwriting.

Zach: 00:08:51

Yes, yes.

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We have a lot of different, um, topics covered, so I'm hoping

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she can cover screenwriting.

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I mean, people really, value her screenwriting advice and

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opinions, so I'm, I'm sure people will be excited to hear her.

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Um, Tyler Sansom, you know him from FAFF as well.

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Um, he's doing, uh, Backlot with Wally now, um, as well

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as he did Purpose, last year,

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and so if you went to

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Purpose, you met him there

Geoff: 00:09:16

Yes, a lot of our listeners and, uh, FAFF members

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went to Purpose last year.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I know you guys, um, had a big i- influence on, on that event, so hopefully

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everybody here remembers that one.

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And I think they're, I think they'll get back to into it at one point, but,

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um, I know it was postponed this year

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And it was and they, um, there has been some talk of them, um, actually doing

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it again even though they skipped a year.

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We'll see.

Zach: 00:09:41

Totally.

Zach: 00:09:41

Yeah.

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No, these, these events are a lot.

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I'm not gonna lie.

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It's been-- I thought it would be more than I was expecting, and then it was,

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and I'm like, "Okay. Yep, this is a lot." Um, some more speakers Joseph and

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Stacy Graber, they're, local to Colorado.

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Um, but they speak at Christian Worldview, Festival a lot.

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Um, and they're, they run Thorn Crown Project, um, Thorn Crown Film

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Project, so they're really great.

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And then,

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Do you know what they're teaching

Zach: 00:10:10

a filmmaking, couple filmmaking classes, kind of some,

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some 101s and then documentaries.

Geoff: 00:10:15

Okay, cool

Zach: 00:10:16

But yeah, some 101 classes on filmmaking.

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And then, um, Jared Lane is another one of our speakers.

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He is a composer, film composer, so he'll be teaching on that.

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Um, I think he spoke at Purpose as well, um, but I've known Jared forever.

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We grew up together.

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He was in my wedding, I was in his.

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Same two weeks, we, like, alternated.

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I got back and went straight to Buena Vista, or his wedding.

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So, yeah, I'm excited to have, have Jared there.

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and yeah, that's everybody announced.

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We have some more announcements soon, but that's

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everybody announced so

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far.

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But you can look up our social media for more speaker announcements coming up.

Geoff: 00:10:53

Yeah, and stay tuned.

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Zach will be, taking part in one of our weekly meetups, and, uh,

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we'll also be doing, promotion.

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I guess we haven't said this yet.

Geoff: 00:11:02

Jaclyn and I will be there.

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I guess you did already mention that she's a speaker.

Geoff: 00:11:05

Uh, we'll be there, and, uh, we'll have a booth.

Geoff: 00:11:09

We'll look forward to, hopefully seeing all of you there.

Geoff: 00:11:12

Like, please plan for it.

Geoff: 00:11:14

There's still lots of time.

Geoff: 00:11:15

What's the date again?

Zach: 00:11:17

The 18th, 19th, and 20th of January

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of January.

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So we're still, when this comes out, more or less three months away, and

Geoff: 00:11:24

that's plenty of time to plan and get good flights and all that, type of thing

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if you're, not close enough to drive.

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And, we'll wanna see you there.

Geoff: 00:11:31

It's gonna be fun.

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Gonna be a lot of fun.

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but we will keep you up to date between now and then on what's happening.

Geoff: 00:11:37

If you've got announcements, Zach, with, new speakers or anything else, we'll,

Geoff: 00:11:40

uh, we'll try and get them out to our,

Zach: 00:11:42

Oh, awesome.

Geoff: 00:11:42

listeners and our members

Zach: 00:11:44

Yeah, I'm excited about it.

Zach: 00:11:45

Yes.

Zach: 00:11:45

we have a couple more speakers I, I just gotta confirm a few

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details for, but that makes it kind of fun, the intrigue, you know?

Geoff: 00:11:52

Yeah.

Geoff: 00:11:52

that's just normal.

Geoff: 00:11:53

I mean, everything we do, like we try and plan our bootcamp well in advance

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as far as starting, you know, contacting speakers and that type of thing.

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But it's, it's sometimes getting pretty close by the time some people

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are able to confirm, uh, because, you know, obviously these people have

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other things going on in their life.

Geoff: 00:12:11

They have films sometimes that they have to, to actually make, and

Zach: 00:12:16

Well, that's good.

Geoff: 00:12:17

they don't, always know that far in advance whether

Geoff: 00:12:19

they're gonna be available.

Geoff: 00:12:20

So anyway, we'll look forward to those, updates

Zach: 00:12:22

But it's, good to have people that are in the industry doing stuff

Geoff: 00:12:26

Of course.

Zach: 00:12:26

and not only going to, to networking events.

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So that shows you have good people you, you work with that

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are in the industry and working.

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And yeah, I always try to make all the boot camps I can for FAFF.

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It's… You guys get good

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folks

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involved

Geoff: 00:12:39

So you mentioned thank you.

Geoff: 00:12:41

You mentioned the hotel, the venue for the conference, uh, will also

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likely be a good spot to stay.

Geoff: 00:12:49

It's obviously right on location.

Geoff: 00:12:51

Is it an area where there's other hotels close by?

Zach: 00:12:54

are, there are lots of hotels close by.

Zach: 00:12:56

There's like three or four really big ones, a couple hundred rooms.

Geoff: 00:12:59

Okay

Zach: 00:13:00

a really big hotel kind of conference-y area.

Zach: 00:13:04

Um, I think there's close to 20 restaurants in the parking lot.

Zach: 00:13:07

Um, it's a big parking lot.

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So you can, you can literally take an Uber from the Denver

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Airport, probably 25, 35 minutes.

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Um, stay on property.

Zach: 00:13:17

I'm hoping to get tickets, don't hold me to this 'cause I'm still negotiating it.

Zach: 00:13:20

I'm hoping to get tickets after fees under $100 a night,

Zach: 00:13:24

um, for

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each room.

Geoff: 00:13:25

Good.

Geoff: 00:13:25

If you do get that information, before we release this

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episode, please give them to us.

Geoff: 00:13:30

We'll put the link uh, the link to the hotel as well as, of course, the link

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to, the festival in our show notes.

Geoff: 00:13:37

So if you're listening to this, go check the show notes and get more information.

Zach: 00:13:42

Yes.

Zach: 00:13:42

So the, the hotel has lots of restaurants there.

Zach: 00:13:46

I'm not offering meal plans because there's so many restaurants, and

Zach: 00:13:49

I just kind of want people to network and invite each other to

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different lunches, different dinners.

Zach: 00:13:53

Our VIP ticket does come with one dinner, that is the Thursday night,

Zach: 00:13:58

and that comes with an extra Q&A with Andy Irwin, um, to where, you know, you

Zach: 00:14:02

It's a little bit more intimate setting.

Zach: 00:14:04

Uh, but other than that, yeah, restaurants are gonna be, where people can really

Zach: 00:14:08

make some good connections and, and hang out a lot, um, have some good food there.

Zach: 00:14:12

So

Geoff: 00:14:12

So there's lots of options nearby, you say?

Zach: 00:14:14

Yeah, pretty much any, any option you can imagine is, is right there.

Zach: 00:14:19

I mean, they're all chain restaurants, but there are options,

Geoff: 00:14:21

cool.

Geoff: 00:14:22

So is there anything else you'd like to add?

Geoff: 00:14:25

Any information we haven't covered?

Geoff: 00:14:27

Any details you'd like to make sure we know about before we clue this up?

Zach: 00:14:31

Yeah, I mean, I guess just the, the essence of the event, I mean, that I wanna

Zach: 00:14:36

really portray this first year, cause, you know, it's kind of setting a trajectory

Zach: 00:14:39

for the rest of our events in the future.

Zach: 00:14:41

I really want it to be, um, of course community-based, of course networking,

Zach: 00:14:45

and I mean, that's any event.

Zach: 00:14:46

But I want it to be kind of that, you know, not quite beginner

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film camp level, but not quite such a huge, huge festival that

Zach: 00:14:53

you're, you know, scared to even show up, right?

Zach: 00:14:56

Get that kinda intermediate level of, um, people that are really trying

Zach: 00:14:59

to up the quality of their work.

Zach: 00:15:00

That's what I tried to convey with the branding of Mosaic.

Zach: 00:15:03

It's about not only different pieces coming together in any film, um, like a

Zach: 00:15:08

mosaic, but also just calling back to, you know, older, older times when the

Zach: 00:15:13

church led the way in the arts, and when the church was known for its beautiful,

Zach: 00:15:17

um, artistry everywhere, around the world.

Zach: 00:15:20

the Christians were leading the path forward.

Zach: 00:15:22

So

Zach: 00:15:22

that's,

Zach: 00:15:23

that's kind of what I'm, basing my branding off of my color palette, all

Zach: 00:15:26

of that, is trying to allude to, is that it's, it's us encouraging each

Zach: 00:15:30

other and upping the quality of what we're doing, at the same time.

Zach: 00:15:33

So that's kind of the vibe I'm going for this first year, kind of our theme.

Zach: 00:15:37

and I'm, I'm just really excited to get to encourage the filmmakers

Zach: 00:15:41

who are brave enough to brave the snow with us in January.

Zach: 00:15:44

It's gonna be great.

Geoff: 00:15:46

Awesome.

Geoff: 00:15:46

Yeah, Jaclyn and I are really looking forward to, um, like it sounds like with

Geoff: 00:15:50

the, the lunch breaks and the dinner breaks and the, the times that you've

Geoff: 00:15:53

set aside for networking, we're really looking forward to, the opportunity

Geoff: 00:15:57

to be a part of community and to just build relationships with people.

Geoff: 00:16:01

That's, as you know, that's a big part of what we do.

Geoff: 00:16:04

So When we get out and get somewhere where we can do that in person, uh,

Geoff: 00:16:08

that's really special, for us, so we're really looking forward to that.

Geoff: 00:16:11

Would you share, the dates again

Geoff: 00:16:14

and the

Zach: 00:16:15

Yes

Geoff: 00:16:16

website?

Zach: 00:16:17

It's like a screenwriting rule, the, the rule of three.

Zach: 00:16:19

You gotta say it three times in the script before they get it.

Zach: 00:16:21

Yes, the website is mosaicchristianfilmfestival.com.

Zach: 00:16:25

No dashes, no periods, anything, just mosaicchristianfilmfestival.com.

Zach: 00:16:30

Um, if you look at our social media or our Film Freeway,

Zach: 00:16:33

that links to it as well,

Zach: 00:16:35

The dates are the Monday, Tuesday,

Zach: 00:16:37

Wednesday,

Zach: 00:16:38

uh, 18th, 19th,

Zach: 00:16:39

and 20th of January, 2027, and then Sundance

Zach: 00:16:44

starts on the Thursday.

Zach: 00:16:46

So if you wanna stick around for a day, we'll be there

Geoff: 00:16:49

Awesome.

Geoff: 00:16:49

I just realized actually, um, we have a coupon code

Geoff: 00:16:53

that I will put in the show notes.

Geoff: 00:16:55

why not mention that right now?

Geoff: 00:16:56

I'd, kind of forgotten.

Geoff: 00:16:57

But, if you're listening and you're interested in registering, you can

Geoff: 00:17:01

get 10% off by, looking in the show notes and finding the coupon code

Zach: 00:17:05

And right now, early bird tickets are on sale for $175.

Zach: 00:17:09

They go up to regular pricing, which is $200, um, November 10th.

Zach: 00:17:13

So the code you talked about will work throughout the whole time,

Zach: 00:17:17

but on top of that, you can get the early bird tickets as well.

Zach: 00:17:20

Um, and that goes through November 10th.

Zach: 00:17:22

So, yeah, you can kinda stack your discounts with that.

Zach: 00:17:25

I'm trying to make it as affordable as I can for everybody traveling out.

Zach: 00:17:28

but again, if you're, if you're waiting to find out more

Zach: 00:17:30

logistics, that's totally fine.

Zach: 00:17:31

The FAF throughout the entire process

Geoff: 00:17:35

Sounds great.

Geoff: 00:17:36

Well, we're excited about it.

Geoff: 00:17:37

Thank you, Zach, for, uh, sharing with us today.

Geoff: 00:17:41

As I mentioned, we will have Zach in one of our Thursday meetups.

Geoff: 00:17:44

. I think it's our next networking event, uh, November 5th.

Zach: 00:17:48

Oh,

Zach: 00:17:48

perfect.

Zach: 00:17:48

That'll be right before nominations come out, so that's great.

Zach: 00:17:51

Yes,

Zach: 00:17:51

I love it

Geoff: 00:17:52

Yeah, and, uh, we will keep you up to date on the details.

Geoff: 00:17:55

Thanks again, Zach, for sharing today.

Zach: 00:17:57

Thank you so much for having me.

Zach: 00:17:58

I really appreciate your time