Interview With "Boys State" Directors, Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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"Boys State" premiered earlier this year the Sundance Film Festival where it won U.S. Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize. An A24 production, it got picked up by Apple and is now streaming exclusively on Apple TV+. The documentary follows a thousand teenage boys attending the Boys/Girls State program in Texas. Their goal is to put their political differences aside and come together to build a representative government from the ground up over the course of a week. The documentary's directors, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss, were kind enough to sit down and chat with us about how they came to the project, working on it and film's reception so far. Take a listen below! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howie's interview with the directors of Boy State, Amanda McBain, and Jesse Moss.
0:09.9	I will skip the part where I brag for three minutes about how great and cool I am.
0:15.6	Seeing as we are all qualified young men of skill and character, people like that stuff. People like that stuff a lot. Some people say they're a sports junkie. I say I'm a politics junkie. The heart of the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I'm playing this like a game. I would like very much to win. I love it, boys. I love it. Where are you from? I come from a very modest family.
0:38.3	I'm on the course to be the first friend to graduate from high school.
0:41.3	I am a progressive person, and I'm in a room full of mostly conservative people.
0:46.3	Our masculinity shall not be infringed.
0:49.3	I've never seen so many white people ever.
0:53.3	I feel like everybody has a secret underlying need for bipartisanship.
1:01.4	A message of unity, as good as it sounds, is not winning anyone in the elections.
1:09.3	Primary polls are now open.
1:11.6	Get yourselves ready for a turbulent election.
1:15.6	Whatever happens to your best of luck.
1:19.6	You win, I support you fully.
1:21.6	My name is Steven Garza, and I'm running for governor.
1:25.6	I must get to applause because And I'm running for governor.
1:30.3	I must get applause because... As to the political views, voice to my speech.
1:34.3	Sometimes you gotta say what you gotta say in an attempt to win.
1:37.3	I think he's a fantastic politician.
1:39.3	But I don't think a fantastic politician is a compliment either.
1:43.3	We're gonna do shock and off. It's gonna be awesome. But I don't think a fantastic politician is a compliment either.
1:48.0	We're gonna do shock and off. It's gonna be awesome. I want y'all to take out your phones and go on Instagram. Everyone, come on.
1:52.0	Oh my God.
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