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🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast. Andrew Leobold, last time we talked to you, you were, I don't know, neck deep, maybe waist deep in the search for Wang Wang. |
0:39.6 | And now you have a new venture called Film Safari. And I'm very curious, what is Film Safari? |
0:46.2 | Well, Mike, let me tell you, it's, yeah, it has been a wild ride over the last six years, I think, |
0:53.7 | since I was doing a Kickstarter campaign in 2013. |
0:57.2 | You know, a couple of documentaries later, a couple of failed projects, you know, a couple of things in limbo, scratching my safari hat and thinking, well, you know, what the hell do I do in 2019? |
1:10.8 | The documentary I'm working on in the Philippines at the moment, the one on the Marcos family |
1:15.6 | funding porn in the 80s, that kind of ran into a few roadblocks, not surprisingly, in the |
1:23.8 | Philippines, not the most popular subject, especially around election time. |
1:28.4 | So I thought, man, I've got to do something. |
1:31.8 | I mean, I'm not a creature to be able to sit around just passively watching TV. |
1:36.8 | I need something to keep brain wrapped around. |
1:40.2 | So I thought, well, I've been going to place, like, you know, Asia, Mexico especially. |
1:46.0 | My God, that place blew my mind. |
1:48.2 | And as I was, you know, sitting in the crypt of San Angel looking at the mummies, 12 sentient corpses guarding the crypt of San Angel, who were also in a mass wrestling movie, |
2:03.3 | I thought, my God, I would love to be sharing this with people. |
2:09.5 | Why don't I take people on guided, related, guided tours of all of these amazing places that I'm visiting? |
2:16.2 | That's where Film Safari was born, the desperate need to share all this good shit, you know, |
2:22.8 | with fellow film freaks and travelers. |
2:26.1 | When I submitted the project to Kickstarter, they said, no, this is too much like a business. |
2:33.1 | This isn't a creative endeavor. |
2:35.0 | This is just you trying to make money. |
2:37.8 | So no. |
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