Interview With "I'm Not A Robot" Director/Writer Victoria Warmerdam & Producer Trent

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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"I'm Not A Robot" had its world premiere at the Netherlands Film Festival in the Golden Calf Competition. Starring Ellen Parren, Henry van Loon, Thekla Reuten, Juliette van Ardenne, and Asma El Mouden, the short film follows Lara, who plunges into a strange new reality after a series of failed CAPTCHA tests. Director/Writer Victoria Warmerdam and Producer Trent were both kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on YouTube through The New Yorker and is up for your consideration for this year's Academy Awards for Best Live Action Short Film. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free 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 Howitz interview with the director and writer for I'm Not a Robot, Victoria Warmadame, and producer Trent. Ah, tivas.
0:23.6	Have you with a ruse with the printer?
0:27.6	No, I come we don't through it.
0:30.6	Pair, through one.
0:32.6	Yeah, by, by so an automatic, I'm not robot thing.
0:38.3	CAPTCHA.
0:41.3	What's you?
0:43.3	That do you in CAPTCHA.
0:45.3	Completely automatic public touric test to tell computers and humans apart.
0:49.3	Victoria and Trent, thank you so much for chatting with me about your incredible short.
0:54.5	I'm not a robot.
0:55.8	I loved the film so much.
0:58.3	So I'm thrilled to talk to you and learn more about it.
1:01.1	I appreciate your time.
1:02.6	Thanks for having us.
1:03.8	That's a nice start to have a conversation.
1:06.8	Absolutely.
1:08.1	Well, of course, we do have to start with your Oscar nomination. Congratulations on the
1:13.2	success. Where were you both when you found out about the nomination? Well, we're at home watching
1:20.9	the live stream. And it was the first time actually watching it, you know, real time time and I never realized that it it goes by
1:29.5	so quickly like before you know it like the nominations are out so when that happened and our
1:36.5	film title was there I was like oh my god did that really happen but we we recorded it so we have
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