focus on the sound of my voice. You are getting very, very sleepy. You will PayPal and

Venmo me random amounts of money at random hours, night and day. No, wake up. Actually, we got a

podcast to do. Howdy. I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each week,

we plan to bring you in-depth insight into the creative process of storytelling.

And folks, no, I did not mean to hypnotize you, I'm sorry.

But there is something kind of hypnotic about today's film,

and I am quite pleased to have with me graphic novel creator and screenwriter,

Connor Steckshulte, and director Rob Schroeder.

Now, Connor and Rob have gone and made a disturbing film,

a confusing film on purpose. And there's answers, don't you worry. But we do this like we

always do, which is spoiler-free for the first half. And then we dive right into the spoilers

to unravel this crazy, crazy mystery. Without a doubt, Connor and

Rob were both very forthcoming about their creative process, so I know you'll dig this episode.

And you know, the other cool thing about this episode was it was part of a virtual screening

I did for hundreds of people all over the world, actually. There was no geo-blocking even on

it. They got to see the film, and they got to watch the Q&A. And as you know, we take videos of these Q&As, and they go on to

the Backstory Magazine YouTube page. That's where you could find videos of all these zooms. But

we did a virtual event, and it's free. And if you ever want to sign up and join us for one of these virtual events. We are happy to have you. You could sign up over at

Backstory.net slash events. And speaking of things to dig, I hope you also check out Backstory

Magazine. You know, our winner issue is out. It's our Dune issue. It's glorious. And we are posting

our Oscar issue very soon. So you're going to be able to read scripts, see deleted scenes,

like all the cool stuff that we do each year. Look for that because that is coming to Backstory

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