Interview With "The Mission" Directors Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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"The Mission" had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and is the follow-up film from co-directing duo Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss following their work on "Boys State." The documentary follows the story of John Allen Chau, an American missionary who attempted to make contact with one of the world's most isolated Indigenous peoples, the Sentinelese. The film has received positive reviews since its premiere and has positioned itself as a serious Best Documentary Feature Oscar contender by National Geographic Documentary Films. Amanda and Jesse were kind enough to spend some time talking 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 playing in theaters from Picturehouse. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com For more about Regal Unlimited and the Slasher Sale - https://regmovies.onelink.me/4207629222/bjs99t0x New subscribers can use code REGALNBP23 for 10% off of Regal Unlimited for the first 3 months Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.7	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview
0:35.3	with the directors for the documentary film, The Mission,
0:39.7	Amanda McBain and Jesse Moss.
0:42.3	John's parents brought him up to be Christian.
0:46.0	He was just like full of light.
0:47.8	I had a little bit of a crush on him.
0:49.7	You couldn't have asked for a better young man.
0:51.3	He reminds me of who I wanted to serve with.
0:54.2	He told me his plan was to go live in the middle of the jungle.
0:58.7	It didn't sound that bad.
1:01.2	I thought that John would get accepted.
1:06.0	People whose language no one speaks, whose culture no one knows.
1:11.6	There's a fine line between faith and madness.
1:17.6	Once he found out about that tribe, he knew he was going to go all in.
1:23.6	John was telling his story, I'm a climber, I'm an adventurer.
1:26.6	Here we are, hiking out.
1:28.3	If things don't go well, you want it to look like a young, arrogant, Western person,
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