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Oh! The Chinko! Chink! Hey, folks, welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I'm talking with Jackson Cooper.

He is the executive director of Agfa,

then it's the American Genre Film Archive.

If you are a film fan, I am sure you are very familiar with a lot of their titles.

They had quite a few playing at the Fantastic Fest in Austin this year, sat down with Jackson while he was down at the festival, talked a little bit about Agfa, what they've done and what

they're going to do. Got some exciting news ahead. Thank you so much for listening, and I hope you

enjoyed the interview. Jackson Cooper, tell me a little bit more about yourself before you mentioned that you were a theater kid, and it looks like you've been involved in the theater

for a long time. Quite a while. I would say film, specifically genre cinema, horror movies,

and such. I was a kid discovering musicals with watching The Nightmare Before Christmas when I was four years old and just

completely falling in love with this Gothic imagery and this sort of really scary but

lovable characters and having some pretty kick-ass songs by Danny Elfman. So that's truly

where it started. And so throughout my entire career,

it was always like working in the arts

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