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All right everybody, welcome to The Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense,

joined by Jonathan Watkins. Hello, hello. And today we have a very special

guest. It is Karina Faith, who has written and directed a movie called The Power,

coming out on VOD, Digital HD, and DVD on September 21st. Karina, welcome. Hi, thank you so much for

having me. It still makes me very happy hearing that list of information that I have in the world.

It's very nice. Yes. So the title of this movie is very simple, but it has a lot of different

meanings to it. Could you discuss the meaning of The Power in this movie?

Um, well, the literal meaning is that the story takes place in over one night during a power

part in a hospital, a rolling blackout that took place in the 1970s in the UK,

enforced blackouts. The film is very much about power dynamics and who has the power and he

doesn't, and a character starting with very little power and where she goes with that. So you

can come at it from, as you say, many directions. Yeah. Yeah. What the blackouts, I read a little bit

on this stuff. Was it something about mining minors that the coal production wasn't as much,

I guess, that the reason for the blackouts, like it was a forced blackout?

Um, well, yeah, the simple version is that the unions, the workers unions, which were very powerful

at the time in the 1970s, were demanding better rights and pay and they were in conflict with

the government and they were making threats to hold the production of power to the country,

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