Pushkin.

Because... Because it is, you know, really, my turn to decide I want to make films was right after my first son.

You know, I have footage of me and my wife talking about this pivot

to becoming a filmmaker at the same time

that we're waiting for my first son. And so if I'm honest, I think a lot of this desire and hesitancy

to protect my inner self, whatever that is,

is in relationship to my two boys who really fundamentally altered

my life.

I always talk about cinema altering my life, but my boys did that in a deeply existential way almost immediately you

know I felt a kind of responsibility and felt for the first time maybe in my life

tethered and not so free floating.

That was Koganata. I'm San Francisco and this is Talk Easy.

Welcome to the show. I've been given to Ebert Fest since 2012. It was originally called the

Overlooked Film Festival back in the late 90s when the late Roger Ebert started it. But now it is very much Ebertfest and

without Roger it is Chaz Ebert and the wonderful team here carrying on its legacy.

And the thing is, when the central figure in an institution passes away, two things either happen. One, the aforementioned institution

shutters or it is carried forward by those that were around him and those that wish they were around him when he was alive.

And that is very much what is happening here in Champaign, Illinois.

It is a one-of-a-kind film festival that lives on because of the critics who Roger knew and inspired,

and also the filmmakers that he was attracted to.

Now, the festival shows movies that Roger never got a chance to see,

and one of them this year is a film called Columbus. Directed by

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