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Hey folks, welcome to The Projection Booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this special episode, I am talking with H.P. Mendoza, all about his new film,

The Secret Art of Human Flight, recently played at the Tribeca Film Festival, and will be coming, a city near you definitely keep an eye out for it and check out HP's wonderful website HP Mendoza.com.

I will provide a link to that in the show notes over at projection booth podcast.com.

Thanks so much for listening and I hope you enjoy the interview. Mr. Mendoza,

super excited to talk with you today. You're like a powerhouse with all of the things that you've done

and all the things that you do. Editing, music, directing. It's wild to look at your credits.

Oh, thank you. Yeah. I think early on it stemmed from cheapness and now it's

force of habit. How did you get interested in becoming a filmmaker anyway? It's funny. It's only

like times like this that I have to answer that question and I feel like the answer changes every time.

But I did get a super eight camera for my father when I was about six. And what I did with those three-minute

cartridges was not make movies per se, but actually use the camera and speed them down my

like hot wheels tracks and get them developed and then project them in the living room and move

my couch with my family on it and pretend that we're in the back to the future ride from Universal Studios. And I was making motion simulators. And when the idea came to actually

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