all right welcome everybody we have a good friend of mine new friend of mine yvonne gaultier he is a

writer director producer he's worked on the several projects for several decades he is a french

filmmaker who spent a good bit of time in l a and is now working on his own independent projects

and uh we're going to be talking about the history of film his

influences what he likes what he doesn't like how he got to where he is and evan how are you today

i'm good thank you thanks for uh for doing this i really appreciate it and uh first thing i want to say

is i know i have a pretty thick French accent and I

can't get rid of it. So if there are moments where if you don't understand stuff that you

know, don't hesitate to tell me I don't mind repeating. I'm used to I'm used to it.

I have a good friend who's on my Discord and he's also sounds just like you, by the way.

So I'm used to the accent.

So I don't think it'll be a problem.

But all, Yvonne, so let's talk about, first of all, what got you interested in film?

What were some of the first films that really piqued your interest to make you say, I want to do that?

That's going to be my life goal is to make films.

Were there books? Was it specific directors?

Let's talk about influences.

Um, yeah, I mean, it really felt like it started when I was a teenager and I started to watch a lot of movies, like mostly commercial movies.

But my parents at the time, I was living in a small town in the east of France, not far from Germany.

And then my parents were running like a Cine Club and they were playing other

movies not only like the Disney or the super mainstream stuff and then I was open pretty early to

like different kind of movies not only big American movies but French movies art house

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