Hello everyone and welcome to a special episode of slash film daily my name is Ben Pearson I'm the senior writer at slash film.com and today we're going to present an interview with Anish Chiganti the co-writer and director of a new thriller called Searching. It's a mystery that plays out entirely across computer screens and cell phones, and it's so inventive and engrossing and exciting that it ended up

being my favorite movie I saw at this year's Sundance Film Festival back when it was called Search.

I caught up with a niche during the festival to talk about his movie, which is his feature

directorial debut. He's a longtime fan of slash film.com and as the interview begins,

you'll hear him talk about how he checks the site a few times a day and get very excited about my 10 out of 10 review, which I'll link to in the show notes.

During the interview, we talk about his inspirations for the film, the scope of the story, how he conveyed the passage of time,

and much more.

This is the majority of our conversation, but I actually trimmed out a few spoilery aspects

that you can read about in the full piece on slash film.com and again I'll link to that in the show

notes. Thanks for listening and enjoy the interview.

The film was saying they took about four times a day. That's awesome.

When Peter Scarrata put it on his

I like the website's most anticipated.

Yeah, it was me, I wrote that.

You wrote that.

Oh, sick.

Yeah.

Sick.

And I freaking love the movie.

I just reviewed it. The review hasn't gone up up yet but it's good on slash home it's a 10 out of 10 review are you

fucking kidding me is a 10 out of 10 review the only one that I've given a 10 out of 10 at

Sunday at so far how many do you Uh, I don't know, at least 10, maybe.

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