Welcome to Linolium Knife podcast of the cinema.

You'll normally, you hear theme music, but not today.

Because we have a special guest, and it's a short little episode.

My name is Dave White, and I'm a film critic, and my husband, Alonzo Duraldi, the other film critic, we host this show.

And we are doing this special episode today with our guest, Corey Sherman, for one reason.

He has a movie.

He wrote it.

He directed it.

It's called Big Boys.

We can't review it.

That would be journalistically unethical. However, we've known Corey for years.

Yeah. However, when we like something that a friend has made, we want to tell you all about it.

And the best way to do that is to help have him here and talk about it himself. So, welcome to the show,

Corey Sherman. Thank you, Dave. Thank you. This is, I truly an honor. I have dreamed of the day of

being able to talk to you guys about a movie that I made. So I'm very happy to be here. So give us a

picture, you know, in the broadest sense,

because I think it's always changing for independent filmmakers. In 2024, how does one make a movie?

How does one, as a first time filmmaker, get a movie off the ground, finish it, get into theaters,

you know, give us the quick version of how that went for you.

Yeah. I mean, I think a big part of it, in terms of just like getting things off the ground

with fundraising, was learning about this thing called a fiscal sponsorship, which is where an

independent film nonprofit essentially like extends their nonprofit status to filmmakers

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