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In this episode, John Affinette takes us behind the scenes of his new drama, Three Christs.

The film follows a Michigan psychiatrist as he treats three paranoid schizophrenic patients,

each of whom believes that he is Jesus Christ. In addition to three Christs, Mr. Avnet's directorial credits include the feature films Righteous Kill,

Up Close and Personal, The War, and Fried Green Tomatoes, the movies for television between two women and have a little faith,

pilots for the series Boon Town, Bunker Hill, and have a little faith, pilots for the series Boomtown,

Bunker Hill, and Pleading Guilty, and Episodes of the series Sneaky Pete and Justified.

He was twice nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Movies

for Television and Miniseries for 2007's The Starter Wife, and 2001's Uprising.

Following a recent screening of the film at the DGA Theater in Los Angeles,

Mr. Avnet spoke with director Rodrigo Garcia about filming Three Christs.

Listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. listen on for their spoiler-filled conversation. The hardest part of this was doing a quick intro of you that would not take up 40 minutes.

But here's a quick one, just a little refresher.

Some of your career highlights as director John include

fried green tomatoes up close and personal red corner righteous kill which

brought together Pacino and De Niro you have some notable producing credits

risky business less than zero black swans sky captain and the world of tomorrow and my own movie for good days which premieres at Sundance next week that's shameless

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