When I received this script, Frank, I thought it was really interesting and creative.

It wasn't the typical script that you usually read.

There was a lot of layers in it.

It's touching upon how a female deals with finding out if she is or isn't

pregnant and a lot of times it's this really scary emotional kind of roller coaster and you don't know what's going to happen.

A part of you always wants it because you know we do have those instinct, those maternal

instinct and then a part of you was also terrified.

I thought that this is definitely something that as a female it would be really great for other viewers to see.

My name is Viska and any support would be such a great help so if you can contribute please do we'd love for you to be a part of this. Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror, Podcasting from the Hard Halls of Academia,

and we're here today with a little something new.

We are doing a mini episode and this is something we're starting to do and with these we're going to do a filmmaker

Spotlight so today we are talking to our friend Ashley Russell

Hey guys.

Now Ashley is a long-time friend of mine.

I actually met her through Toronto Roller Derby when I was skating in Roller Derby

and the room more guys all knew her because she is a frequent contributor to the Meg.

She shoots a lot of our events.

You probably see her work in the magazine.

And if you visited my website and you've seen some really cool highly stylized photos of me.

We did a really cool superhero spread. We did one where I'm wearing sunglasses and I'm pulling down my lip to show a tattoo or any of my roller derby photos, those were all Ashley's work.

So when Ashley started telling me that she was interested in putting together a short film,

I was automatically all years and had firsthand experience of her artistic vision and her abilities and

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