'The Big Picture' — Sean Baker’s Wondrous ‘The Florida Project’ (Ep. 392)

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🗓️ 8 December 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ringer editor-in-chief Sean Fennessey chats with Sean Baker, who was recently awarded Best Director by the New York Film Critics Circle for his latest film, ‘The Florida Project.’ They discuss how Baker tells authentic stories about underrepresented communities, his use of inexperienced actors, and why he prefers making smaller-budget films. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I drive down the street and I see a billboard and it's all like Academy Award winners
0:06.3	and nominees and they even say it and there's not one new fresh face to this.
0:11.8	I just say why.
0:18.2	I'm Sean Femese editor and chief of the ringer and this is the big picture.
0:22.4	Sean Baker is not a Wonder King even if it may seem that way.
0:25.7	The 46 year old co-writer and director of one of the year's loveliest, realist films,
0:29.9	The Florida Project, has been making movies for almost two decades.
0:33.4	Many first heard of Baker after their release of 2015's Tangerine, a story of two transgender
0:37.7	sex workers in Los Angeles that gained attention for two reasons.
0:41.1	One, it starred two unknown first time actors and two, it was shot entirely on an iPhone
0:45.2	5S.
0:46.5	The Florida Project is a little bit of the same and a little bit different too.
0:49.6	It's a moving and intimate story of a mother and a daughter living in a budget hotel just
0:53.3	miles outside of Disney World in Orlando, Florida and it also stars two extraordinary
0:57.6	unknown first-timers.
0:59.1	And in its own specific patient way, the movie looks at the lives of impoverished people
1:03.0	who don't always get the attention they deserve.
1:05.2	It's Baker's best film and it's being hailed as one of the years best too.
1:09.2	Last week, the New York film critic circle named him Best Director and the Florida Project
1:12.5	has emerged as a serious Oscar contender.
1:15.4	Baker and I talked about everything that led to this film, how he pulled it off and the
1:18.9	difficult decisions that go into what comes next.
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