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The Welcome to Media Roots Radio.

This is your host, Robbie Martin.

So today we will be joined by Alex Winter, a very special guest. Alex Winter entered show business as a child actor on Broadway,

and came to prominence in movies such as the Warner Brothers hit, The Lost Boys,

and the Bill and Ted Excellent Adventure and sequel, Bogus Journey.

Winter has directed three narrative features,

Hulk classic, Freaked for 20th Century Fox,

fever for Lionsgate, and Smosh the Movie,

which opened in 2015 as the number one comedy on iTunes.

Winter's TV credits range from MTV's The Idiot Box to Emmy-nominated work for the Cartoon Network,

as well as numerous commercials and music videos.

Winter's newest direction, producing documentary films like the VH1 Rock Dock downloaded and his award-winning

documentary Deep Web. Deep Web was released in September of 2015 and opened as the number one

documentary on iTunes. Winter is now making the definitive documentary on Frank Zappa, which

has set the record as the highest funded documentary in Kickstarter

history. Hi, Alex. Hey, Robbie. Thanks for having me. I actually heard you on the Opian

Jim show many months ago, and I was just really intrigued by your whole backstory. I mean, I knew that when Deep Web

came out, I knew that you had made it and I knew your acting background. Until I listened to that

interview, I didn't realize like how passionate you were about the issues. I mean, I guess one should

maybe assume if someone's made a documentary that the person behind it would be passionate about issues, but that's not often the case.

People make documentaries about things sometimes because it just tells an interesting story. But based on when I listened to, it seemed like you had a very deep knowledge about the subject predating making the documentary and also a passion for

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