Mayday Q&A - Karen Cinorre

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4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews writer/director Karen Cinorre about Mayday.

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0:00.0	Trust me when I tell you, this is one call you do not want to heed.
0:04.0	I repeat, if you hear the call from these fine young women telling you to go somewhere,
0:09.2	do not go where they tell you.
0:11.6	Trust me.
0:12.7	Howdy, I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.
0:15.5	My agenda is simple.
0:16.7	Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of storytelling.
0:21.4	You know, folks, today, this is a movie I absolutely loved at Sundance 2021.
0:26.6	It's May Day, and we are very pleased to have with us writer-director Karen Chenori to discuss her debut feature film.
0:35.3	You know, May Day is a lot of fun.
0:36.7	It reinvents mythology for a whole
0:39.9	genre of storytelling. It is surrealistic storytelling, which is rare, by the way, and it's done so
0:47.1	well. This is one of those movies that I would tell you, if you're going to watch it at home,
0:51.7	right, because it's available on demand, watch it with
0:54.5	headphones because the sound design is so fantastic that you really want to hear it all.
1:00.1	Unless you have a great surround sound system, you don't need headphones then.
1:04.2	Of course, you could also see it in theaters and I'm sure the sound will be great in theaters
1:07.8	as well.
1:09.6	Speaking of seeing May Day, though, this was a virtual screening that I did where
1:13.6	hundreds of people from all over the place got 48 hours to watch Mayday and to hear
1:19.9	the Q&A before everyone else.
1:22.0	And it's totally free.
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