Piggy Q&A - Carlota Pereda

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4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Host Jeff Goldsmith interviews writer-director Carlota Pereda about Piggy.

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0:00.0	Maybe, just maybe, when your life's in danger, calling a girl that you've been bullying
0:05.2	Piggy isn't entirely going to help your situation?
0:08.9	Her name's Sarah, by the way.
0:11.6	And it might be good to remember that.
0:13.6	Howdy.
0:14.2	I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A.
0:16.4	My agenda is simple.
0:17.5	Each week, I plan to bring you in-depth insights into the creative process of
0:21.2	storytelling. And yes, folks, today's film is entitled Piggy, and we are very fortunate to have
0:26.9	with us writer-director Carlotta Pareda. Now, Piggy is in theaters today around the nation
0:32.2	at Alamo Draft Houses, and it's definitely a film worth putting a mask on for grabbing a buddy and going to see.
0:39.3	What's so fun about Piggy is if you've seen the trailer, and I mean this in the best way possible,
0:43.9	the movie has a lot of surprises that you're not really expecting.
0:47.5	And I don't mean crazy action scenes or crazy gore that they just couldn't show you in the trailer.
0:53.7	The secret of Piggy is that it's a
0:55.6	great character study about Sarah and the moral compass that guides her. I'm really glad we were
1:01.9	able to make this happen. Carlotto was in town from Spain for the LA premiere of Piggy, and we were
1:07.1	able to sit down in-person outdoors at her hotel and do a live podcast recording without using Zoom.
1:14.0	All right.
1:14.6	Without a doubt, Carlotta was very forthcoming about her creative process and what it took to get piggy in the can.
1:20.9	So I know you'll dig this episode.
1:22.9	And speaking of things to dig, backstory magazine turns 10.
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