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From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to The Treatment.

So one of the great things about doing this show is getting a chance to talk to a filmmaker

who tells you about a film he wants to make, and he gets to make that film sooner

or later. When I first met Kyle Patrick Alvarez in 2009 for his first film, easier at practice,

the thing he said he wanted to do was a film about the Stanford Prison Experiment. A scant,

six years later, after he was last year's film, CO, C-O-G, that dream has come true.

His new film is the Stanford Prison Experiment.

The director, Patrick Alpharez, is sitting across me.

First of us, so good to have you back.

Yes, I'm so glad to be back.

It's one thing to get to come in the first time, but then to be welcomed back again is a good feeling too. But also too, this thing, and I almost feel this for you, this is your kind of young men in

transition trilogy.

I mean, it sort of got that in common with the two other films, doesn't?

These guys who aren't quite adults yet are looking, don't know if they are leaders or followers

yet, and also don't know where they fit in terms of family and authority figures.

So it's kind of interesting these films kind of connect in that way.

Yeah, there was this feeling after the first two movies that are so exclusively about like this one male character,

you know, male white character where I was like, you know what, maybe it's time.

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