You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the director and writer for Radical, Christopher Zawa.

Oh, let's hurry!

I'm not going to decide what you're going to present.

That's all you're going to decide, you know, whatever whatever.

But how we're going to get some qualifications?

What important, the qualifications?

Have you been a class like before? No, I never had a teacher so. Sir, Juarez, this is the place? Nobody's no, nobody doesn't know what is what you do you? You know, you know, for what? Well? Well, I just want to prove a little different.

No, not to patte the abysspero, okay?

No, I'm not

No.

Alright, well, thank you for being with me today.

This is a wonderful little movie.

I'm glad people are going to get to see it.

It's stuck with me a lot. It's been almost a year,

I guess, since Sundance. So I was reading up a little bit on you in your background, and it's

interesting because in a lot of ways, it seems like your own path as a director kind of attracts

Sergio's, where you kind of disappear and then you reemerge, kind

of reborn. So tell me a little bit about kind of your own filmmaking journey and how that kind of

correlates with Sergio's. Yeah, no, that's exactly right. I think it's a big reason that I was

attracted to the story. The real character, Sergio, you know, wanted, basically wanted nothing more in life than to be the teacher that inspired him to want to be a teacher.

And it was kind of a miserable failure at it and had a nervous breakdown down and decided to start over.

And, you know, I think it takes a lot of a lot of cajones to to do that and

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