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Hello, this is Simon Brew.

I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to a very special episode of the film stories podcast come with me and i show you how deep the rabbit hole goes in movies movies that had stories

that the story just sucks a man this is just the beginning. We would be honoured if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to film stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew as always. That's absolutely everything you need to know about me.

The aim of the podcast though, well, it's given away by the title really. I'm here to talk off the stories of films and I tend

to talk about production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all those ingredients really

that go towards making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that

we know and sometimes love. Now, what you've happened upon here is one of my occasional special episodes of the podcast

where I bring in a filmmaker to talk about their latest film, their body of work,

and you get a little bit of both in this particular special episode.

I'm delighted to welcome to the podcast, Catherine Hardwick,

film director, screenwriter, a production designer in her earlier career as well.

And we're here first and foremost to talk about her latest movie, the comedy Mafia Mama, which is out in UK cinemas from the 17th of November, 2023.

Also throughout the course of the conversation, we talk about a few other

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