Hey, deserve listeners. We have Colin back on the show to talk about a film festival that is coming up that he wants to promote and he gave us screeners to watch beforehand. So we're going to review these movies in this film festival.

Colin, welcome back to the show.

Hello, it's nice to be here virtually with you and your lovely new space looks, it looks brighter. It looks like you have an entire giant, like a, like almost like a bell house, you know, like a bell library room.

Oh, yes, it's all smoke and mirrors, but yes, I do have more room for my even more room for my books. So let's get into it. This is the psychology and Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor.

My name is Umberto Castanilla and I manufacture glass jars.

My name is Colin Miller and I'm currently producing the queer to queer film festival and I am also starting a new journey into freelance writing.

Oh, so Colin, tell us about this film festival that is currently happening. Tell us about it.

So the film festival will premiere in person on the 20th of November or actually maybe it already will have this is airing on the 22nd. So it would have started a couple days ago.

Right. So the in person event was on the 20th and that was at the Marva Jones Theater in Dallas and then the streaming service, which is the same thing is the in person event. It's all the films.

It's going on from the 21st all the way to the 27th. So if you're listening to this on the 22nd, you still got a few days. So no, no rush, but do get online as soon as you can.

There's obviously no cap on tickets. So you can watch it from anywhere in the world. Part of the inception of the film festival was so that you didn't have to be in one specific location because something that happened to me during the pandemic as I found myself really utilizing social media as a way to connect way more than I had in the past.

And even if I looked back at the evidence of all the time that I spent online prior to the pandemic, I may disprove myself, but I will say that I can with, you know, out of shadow of the doubt, it's helped bring me to a better relationship with social media.

And I feel like all of my endeavors online have been a lot more successful just because I've been putting more effort into it and trying to be more vulnerable myself. And I decided that I wanted to put forth all of that energy into an event that meant a lot to me. And so upon introspection with a fellow film producer and creator Ben Ward.

And actually his wife and producing partner Rindley Singleton, they both produce movies with Stranger Morning's production.

We are going to produce a film together and we have worked together in the past. He wanted to do something along the lines of films that don't have to go through the immense channel of expression before it gets to final product.

So something that is closer to the original artist's interests, dream as Frederica Fellini would say, closes to the dream.

And that's where queer to queer came from. I basically came up with the extra part of making it more about queer expression, trying to find films that were outside the box that showed a wide range of voices.

And then it kind of culminated with this desire to not just have something in person, but also be able to connect the world. And that's that's cute.

So where can they go to find this?

It's queer to actually I'm going to look at the exact address, but if you want to go to our Instagram, it's queer underscore to underscore queer.

And then the actual website is queer to that's the number to queerfest.com.

And the Instagram was also the number two, right? Queer underscore at number two.

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