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Hey, The Hey folks, welcome to a special episode of the projection booth.

I'm your host, Mike White.

On this episode, I am talking with filmmaker Teresa Sutherland, all about her feature film directorial debut, lovely, dark, and deep.

The film is playing at the Fantasia Film Festival, which is happening in Montreal at the moment.

So check out the website for more details there.

And definitely keep an eye out for lovely dark and deep.

It is a creepy film all about a ranger with some truly haunting scenes inside the woods.

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

Can you tell me a little bit more about you and how you got interested in filmmaking? I'm originally from Missouri,

South West Missouri. I started my journey to filmmaking and in theater, live theater. I wanted to do

live theater. That was my passion. I went to KU to study it.

There was a part of me that was like, oh, you're an actor. And then that's involved in to I want to direct.

And so I wanted to direct light theater for my entire bachelor's career, the four years, that that was what I was working towards. And then at the end

of that, I had a chance to take like an elective in film and just absolutely fell in love with it,

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