{"id":324,"date":"2014-11-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2015-02-15T19:17:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:17:38","slug":"episode-033-of-off-off-pod-producer-director-actor-brad-coolidge-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/episode-033-of-off-off-pod-producer-director-actor-brad-coolidge-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 033 of Off Off Pod \u2013 Producer Director Actor Brad Coolidge \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_627\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/offoffpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brad_pt2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-627\" alt=\"Filmmaker Brad Coolidge likes hockey\" src=\"http:\/\/offoffpod.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brad_pt2-176x300.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filmmaker Brad Coolidge likes hockey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here is part 2 of my interview with Brad Coolidge.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever thought you might want to direct a film, this is a great interview for you because my buddy Brad talks honestly about some of the challenges he faced as a first time director shooting a &#8220;creature feature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the elements don&#8217;t cooperate, or your creature gets held up in customs and arrives late, or you don&#8217;t have enough days on the schedule. \u00a0 There are so many obstacles awaiting you when you make a film.<\/p>\n<p>Brad and his wife, Melissa, along with their producing partner, Todd Labarowski, make beautiful indie movies as well. \u00a0We talked about these in detail in part 1 of the interview, but here are the links again to those great films:\u00a0<em><strong><a title=\"What Maisie Knew\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Maisie-Knew-Julianne-Moore\/dp\/B00D5XC8MC\/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413179598&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=what+maize+knew\" target=\"_blank\">What Maisie Knew<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong><a title=\"Prince Avalanche\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prince-Avalanche-Paul-Rudd\/dp\/B00EL6ADGU\/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413180145&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=prince+avalanche\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Avalanche<\/a><\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong><a title=\"Joe with Nicholas Cage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Joe-Nicolas-Cage\/dp\/B00IKM5OCO\" target=\"_blank\">Joe<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, \u00a0<em><strong><a title=\"The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1531924\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him<\/a><\/strong><\/em> AND <em><strong><a title=\"The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3720788\/\" target=\"_blank\">Her<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong><a title=\"Manglehorn movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2893490\/\" target=\"_blank\">Manglehorn<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong><a title=\"The World Made Straight movie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2420166\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\">The World Made Straight<\/a><\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is part 2 of my interview with Brad Coolidge. If you&#8217;ve ever thought you might want to direct a film, this is a great interview for you because my buddy Brad talks honestly about some of the challenges he&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/episode-033-of-off-off-pod-producer-director-actor-brad-coolidge-part-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[19,314,315,316,31,317,318,319,320,321,322,323,324,325,127,14,117,56,9],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catch-my-show","category-podcast-off-off-pod","tag-actor","tag-brad-coolidge","tag-chupacabra","tag-creature-feature","tag-drilling-company","tag-first-time-director","tag-guerrilla-filmmaking","tag-horror-movie","tag-low-budget-films","tag-mario-torres-jr","tag-max-baker","tag-melissa-coolidge","tag-michael-jay-taylor","tag-mizuo-peck","tag-new-york","tag-podcast","tag-ron-dreyer","tag-sal-clemente","tag-stephen-bittrich"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbittrich.com\/stephenbittrichblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}