The Garden State Film Festival and Sophia Lucia Parola interview film director and producer David Serero for his film "The Film-Make-Her, The Lisa Azuelos Story" (2024)
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00:00 - Oh, hello, thanks for joining us, everybody.
00:03 I'm Sofia Lucia Perola with Garden State Film Festival.
00:07 This year from March 21st through March 24th,
00:09 it will be the 22nd annual Garden State Film Festival.
00:14 We are back in Garden State, yes, in Garden State,
00:17 but in Asbury Park, New Jersey, where it all began,
00:19 and also Cranford, New Jersey.
00:21 We'll be having over 200 films screening
00:24 across these eight venues, all different types of films,
00:27 genres, lots of good stuff.
00:29 It's a wonderful lineup this year, guys.
00:31 It's such a pleasure to watch these films.
00:33 One of the films I had the pleasure of watching
00:36 and now interviewing the filmmaker
00:37 is this documentary called "The Film Maker."
00:42 Here with me to talk about this film
00:44 is writer, director, producer, David Soriro.
00:47 - Hello, my dear, how are you?
00:50 - I am wonderful, David, how are you?
00:52 - Sofia, it is such an honor to see you,
00:55 to be with you, to talk to you,
00:58 and it's like you brought the sun in the room now.
01:03 - No, you brought the poetry and the music
01:06 and the wine and the champagne.
01:08 - I like when you talk about me,
01:09 you start to move the hands.
01:11 - Yes, because your energy is just so beautiful.
01:13 - Oh, let me say hello.
01:14 - David, it is, I can tell,
01:18 it's gonna be a wonderful conversation,
01:20 but we don't have all the time
01:21 if you wanna get right into it.
01:23 - How many hours we have?
01:25 - Okay, so we only got,
01:27 I think we got like two, no, we got 15 minutes.
01:30 - Well, listen, it's gonna be hard.
01:31 - But it's okay, we could go a little over.
01:33 Usually I've been going over.
01:34 - I tell you why, because I'm Jewish, you know?
01:38 Just when I say hello, it can last two hours.
01:41 You know what I mean?
01:41 - I see that, I see that.
01:43 - I have to offer you food, I have to talk.
01:46 How are you?
01:47 How is your family?
01:48 - I can tell, it's two minutes.
01:49 - How is everything?
01:50 - And we haven't--
01:51 - How is your love life?
01:52 Are you seeing anybody?
01:53 I need to know all of that.
01:55 - Don't ask me any of these questions.
01:56 - What is that plant that you have?
01:57 What is that plant you have?
02:00 (laughing)
02:01 Tell me the story.
02:02 - That's a spider plant.
02:03 That's a eucalyptus plant.
02:04 - No, the one over there.
02:06 The one over there.
02:06 - Yeah, that's a spider plant.
02:08 - Spider plant?
02:09 - Yeah, it's American probably, right?
02:11 They don't have any of this?
02:12 - I heard Spider-Man, I heard about that.
02:14 But spider plant--
02:15 - This is better than Spider-Man, this is real.
02:17 No, okay.
02:18 - What's the purpose of that plant?
02:20 I wanna know the purpose of that plant.
02:24 - But you know what I wanna know?
02:26 I'll tell you about this plant later, another time.
02:28 Because are you, okay.
02:29 Let's get back to business.
02:31 - Absolutely, my dear.
02:32 - You're a pleasure.
02:33 You're so wonderful.
02:34 But tell us--
02:35 - I know, thank you.
02:36 (laughing)
02:38 - Please tell us who, I'm afraid to ask who you are.
02:41 Short, briefly, tell us who you are.
02:44 Before we talk about the film,
02:45 I wanna know a little bit about you.
02:46 - Well, I was born, it was a Wednesday.
02:47 It was 6.20 p.m.
02:49 And, no, no.
02:52 It's, well, very simply, I was born and raised in Paris.
02:56 I'm originally an opera singer and an actor.
03:00 And I started after to put my shows together.
03:03 I was pretty much very entrepreneurial
03:06 in the culture, I would say, aspect.
03:09 And I started to direct and produce mostly theater,
03:13 theater, musicals, opera,
03:15 then film festivals, music festivals.
03:19 And then COVID happened.
03:21 And I did, I knew I was going to movies.
03:24 I knew this was the next, for me,
03:27 the next gig for me would be to go to movies.
03:30 So just COVID brought it perfectly for me.
03:33 And I did that first movie
03:35 about fashion designer Elie Tahari,
03:37 which last year was selected in your festival.
03:41 So thank you so much.
03:42 And I got to meet this wonderful,
03:45 the founder of the film festival,
03:49 who is such an extraordinary lady.
03:52 And really, I really admire her so much.
03:55 Diane Raver.
03:57 I'm sorry?
03:58 Diane Raver.
03:59 I'm just also admiring her.
04:00 Wonderful person.
04:01 And Diane's such an, you know,
04:04 I know what it takes to put together a film festival.
04:06 I know what it takes to put together an enterprise.
04:09 And we tend to forget these days, I feel,
04:12 to give credit to the people who originated all of it,
04:16 who carry on their shoulders such an entrepreneurship.
04:20 So I really, you know, must, you know, pay her tribute.
04:25 And I went there with Elie Tahari himself,
04:28 and we did a Q&A, we did a screening.
04:31 We had young students from fashion schools around
04:35 who came to attend.
04:35 So it was wonderful.
04:37 So, and then from that documentary became so successful
04:40 that now I have, I think, more than 10 documentaries.
04:45 And it's working so well,
04:48 but each movie brings me to make the next movie better,
04:52 actually.
04:53 So I kind of benefit from one movie to the other.
04:56 So it's good.
04:58 It's a good thing for me.
04:59 Wow.
04:59 You know, since I do the editing myself also.
05:02 So it's very, I would say, beneficial, you know.
05:07 Wow.
05:08 I know that's just like the tip of the iceberg
05:10 of everything you do and all about,
05:12 but amazing, amazing bio.
05:15 And no wonder you're an opera singer and actor
05:17 'cause your energy, your charisma.
05:20 Yeah, okay.
05:21 I'm not gonna ask you to sing for me
05:22 because we gotta talk about "The Filmmaker," okay?
05:25 This is such a beautiful documentary.
05:27 And I know that it obviously is very close to you
05:30 'cause yeah, tell us about "The Filmmaker."
05:32 What is this documentary about?
05:34 Absolutely.
05:35 Well, it's about a wonderful woman.
05:37 Her name is Liza Azuelos,
05:40 who is really number one filmmaker of France.
05:44 You know, like the girl who did "Barbie," "Greta."
05:47 You know, she's the kind of great of France.
05:50 And she did a lot of very successful films in France.
05:54 As a matter of fact,
05:55 she's the most successful female filmmaker of France.
05:59 And she did, in America,
06:01 she's famous for the movie "LOL"
06:03 with Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore.
06:06 And she originally did a French version of it
06:10 and then adapted it in the US.
06:12 And she kind of brought also her own culture,
06:15 which is the Jewish Sephardic culture,
06:18 which I'm very close to from Morocco
06:20 'cause my family's from Morocco.
06:22 And, you know, she brought her own slang
06:27 and her own culture in the movie.
06:29 And she made the movie very authentic.
06:32 And the same way, you know,
06:34 you watch a movie by Woody Allen,
06:36 you recognize the style of Woody Allen,
06:39 of all these great, you know, filmmakers.
06:42 And she has that, you know.
06:45 And I felt that, you know, she is a genius
06:47 and she needed to tell her story
06:50 because her story also tells her movies,
06:53 even though you don't need to know her story
06:54 to appreciate her movies, of course.
06:56 But I felt she really, you know,
07:00 especially in France, you know, the comedies,
07:03 you have the very intellectual movies
07:05 and the comedy are regarded, you know, like this.
07:08 But it's actually the comedies that make the money,
07:10 that make the whole industry successful.
07:13 So, and, you know, we became friends
07:17 and she became my mentor.
07:18 And in 2019, we co-directed together a musical
07:23 that we both wrote off Broadway about disco music.
07:27 So, which actually we talk in the movie
07:29 and that way we became friends
07:32 and when, you know, I did my first movie about Tahari,
07:37 I told her, "Look, I would love to do my second about you."
07:40 And I said, "I don't know who to ask."
07:43 And the movie of Tahari was not even finished 100%.
07:46 So I just showed her a couple of stuff
07:49 and she said, "No, let's do it."
07:53 You know, so it went perfectly.
07:55 - Wow, she said yes right away
07:57 because I know she's so behind the camera.
07:59 She was like, "Yeah, tell my story."
08:01 - I mean, she wanted to be sure because she said,
08:05 "Look, I'm a filmmaker."
08:06 I mean, I was the most scared, trust me,
08:08 because I was like, "You're doing..."
08:10 First of all, so for me,
08:11 it was to make a movie about a filmmaker, you know?
08:15 So it's really another exercise.
08:18 And I wanted to have the same rhythm than her,
08:23 the same colors than her,
08:24 the same laughs that she uses at the end of a phrase,
08:28 you know, so that was what I wanted to do.
08:31 But no, she actually helped me a lot
08:33 because when I showed her the first cut of the movie,
08:37 she said, "That's good, but you're missing a lot of that,
08:39 a lot of that, a lot of that."
08:41 So I started to work more on that.
08:43 And then she said, "That's good,
08:44 but now go more that way, go more that way."
08:47 So she was really helpful.
08:49 And honestly, if you don't learn
08:51 from the person you're making the movie about,
08:54 then how the audience can learn about it in an hour
08:57 where you spend a year, you know?
08:58 So I definitely learned a lot about her
09:00 and she gave me a lot of advices
09:02 and it benefits all the other movies I'm doing now.
09:06 - Right, I can imagine.
09:07 What an experience.
09:08 - Yeah, and in the movie also,
09:10 I was able to interview all the biggest stars
09:14 of French movies.
09:15 And it was, for me, you know, like some of them,
09:20 like idols of mine.
09:21 So it was really, I mean,
09:24 it was a wonderful experience to do that movie.
09:26 - Right, and I can't wait that, you know,
09:28 it was also important because she's a French native speaker
09:31 that she says her story in English
09:34 because she's so famous in France that,
09:37 I'm not gonna say it was useless to do it just for France,
09:41 but I thought it was important for the international crowd,
09:44 for the American crowd,
09:45 because she always dreamed of America,
09:48 being popular in America or, you know,
09:51 and actually she did a movie with Sophie Marceau
09:54 called "I Love America."
09:55 So, you know, that's--
09:57 - I saw that.
09:58 I mean, I was so amazed.
09:59 I learned so much about this amazing woman.
10:01 I was so inspired by her.
10:02 And I didn't, until you said, "LOL,"
10:05 I was like, "Oh my gosh, she made,
10:06 oh, I didn't even know about her."
10:07 So thank you for bringing this knowledge
10:10 of this wonderful woman to America
10:13 and to Garden State Film Festival,
10:14 because I know it's gonna inspire a lot of artists
10:17 and filmmakers and just people in general and women,
10:19 you know?
10:20 So it's amazing.
10:21 Amazing.
10:22 I wanna ask you, how long did it take to make
10:25 and what was like the hardest part of this experience
10:30 and the best part of this experience?
10:32 - Yeah.
10:33 Well, the best part is to be with you, you know,
10:35 is to talk with you today.
10:37 That's the best part-- - You're right.
10:38 You're right. - Of the whole
10:39 filmmaking experience, you know?
10:42 No, it was, first you mentioned something about women.
10:46 She really also, one of her signature was really to bring,
10:51 I will say, the women's stories in the center
10:56 of her stories, 'cause back in those days,
10:58 like 20, 25 years ago, it was movies about war,
11:02 about men, about, you know, men leading stories,
11:06 but she was the first one to do it in France
11:08 to bring female at the center of her movies.
11:13 But the most difficult, I thought,
11:15 was to really treat every movies
11:20 and to bring a story behind the story, you know,
11:24 to bring a story why that movie was created,
11:28 but also almost like if you don't know about movies,
11:32 if you don't know the process of filmmaking,
11:34 that you learn about it, you know?
11:36 So there was the masterclass aspect of the movie
11:39 that I really liked, the masterclass chapter.
11:41 And I liked the idea of a chapter in that particular movie.
11:47 I didn't do that for the next one,
11:48 but that one, I really felt like it was important to do it.
11:52 But yeah, the most difficult is how to bring her career
11:55 into basically an hour and to explain all of her genius,
11:59 but she did it pretty well.
12:01 And also, so the audience leaves with something
12:06 because she always dream to bring people's lives,
12:10 you know, into the screen.
12:13 And at the end, I think the most beautiful movie
12:16 is her own life 'cause she really struggled
12:20 and it was in a hard time.
12:22 And I really believe she deserves every bit of success
12:25 that she has today.
12:27 And she gives opportunities to a lot of people.
12:30 Like she doesn't go necessarily
12:31 with the regular casting type.
12:33 She gives chances to people who are not even actors.
12:36 And, you know, she gave me to do a movie.
12:38 I'm not even a director, you know, filmmaker originally.
12:41 But that's why I choose also the title, "The Filmmaker."
12:45 You know, because that's really the whole story about it.
12:50 - I mean, you're so successful.
12:52 You've done so many films.
12:53 Like you mentioned, the documentary that we had,
12:56 fortunately last year has won over,
12:58 it's been in over a hundred festivals.
13:00 It's won like a dozen awards.
13:02 What do you love about filmmaking
13:05 and documentaries specifically?
13:08 - That's a very sweet question.
13:11 I would say I like to tell a story very differently
13:16 than when I do it on stage,
13:17 'cause I still direct and produce off Broadway in New York.
13:21 And I would say the fact that I started to make movies
13:25 made me a better even stage director.
13:28 And the fact that I'm used to the stage,
13:30 to the rhythm, to the music,
13:32 made me, I think, a different filmmaker,
13:35 a different film director.
13:37 I will say, you know, first it brings me a fresh blood
13:40 because I've been performing for more than 25 years.
13:43 I've known all my life I've been on stage.
13:45 So the fact to be at home all day in front of the computers
13:49 and spend sometimes 16 hours editing the movie,
13:52 'cause I'd edited myself,
13:54 working with a camera, building something.
13:58 And it's all these, you know, like these pointillism,
14:02 you know, in the painting.
14:04 It's all this little point there and there,
14:06 and then something gets created.
14:09 And it's like when you're doing a building,
14:12 it's all these little stones
14:13 that at the end make something.
14:16 And what I like also in a movie is that it stays,
14:19 you know, and it travels.
14:21 While a show, once it's done,
14:23 it was like, thank you everybody, nice to meet you.
14:26 And you move on to the next
14:28 and there's nothing left from it.
14:29 So I like the movie that it can travel, you know,
14:32 the fact that people in New Jersey can read the story,
14:36 even of her dad, who is from Morocco.
14:39 I think this is amazing.
14:41 And that's really what I like.
14:44 And also the people of the industry, you know,
14:47 the film festivals.
14:48 That's the reason why I do movies, not for the platforms.
14:51 It's really for the film festivals
14:53 because you get to meet so many people
14:57 and interact and go to talk about your movies.
15:00 And I learn so much because you get feedback.
15:04 You have to be willing to get the feedback
15:06 and to search for them.
15:07 But I always go and say, what did you like the most?
15:09 What you didn't like?
15:11 What would you change?
15:12 What would you remove?
15:13 But because I'm doing the editing,
15:16 when I go home right away, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,
15:18 I cut whatever needs.
15:20 By example, at Garden Film Festival,
15:22 I remember people laughed a lot at a moment.
15:26 And during that moment, there was an important information.
15:30 So he got covered by the laugh.
15:32 Oh, I remember the next day, I pushed a little bit
15:35 that important information and lasted more time.
15:38 So the laugh could, you know, diminish like this.
15:42 You only see that stuff sitting with that audience
15:44 watching the film.
15:45 Yeah.
15:46 That's what I love.
15:47 And they have great food also at the Garden State Film Festival.
15:52 Oh, yeah.
15:52 Asbury Park.
15:53 Music food.
15:54 We got it all.
15:54 I didn't want to leave.
15:56 You know, I brought Elie Tahari to party.
15:58 How come I didn't see--
15:59 how come I didn't party with you guys last year?
16:01 I'm a little upset.
16:02 You know what I did to him?
16:03 You know, the mistake we did is that there was the movie
16:06 theater, and right in front, there
16:07 was a hotel, if I remember, with the rooms for the party.
16:11 So we went there, and there was JP Morgan Asia Corporate.
16:16 And I thought, let's go there.
16:18 So we opened the door, and we see all the people
16:21 from JP Morgan.
16:23 Said, ladies and gentlemen, this is Elie Tahari.
16:25 You know?
16:27 I said, let's do business.
16:28 Let's give business cards.
16:30 And after we went to party, we had the best time ever.
16:33 Oh my gosh.
16:34 Yeah, I'm upset I didn't hang with you guys.
16:36 The best parties, really.
16:37 Garden State Film Festival, the best party, man.
16:39 And it's parties in the afternoon.
16:41 I like that, you know?
16:42 Oh, we got parties all hours of the day.
16:44 Our first screening is like-- the earliest one, I think,
16:47 is 9 AM.
16:47 So you--
16:48 9 AM?
16:49 That's our earliest screening block.
16:50 I'm very sure.
16:51 You're not going to see me there, can I tell you that?
16:53 We're definitely over time.
16:54 I want to ask you two quick questions, David.
16:56 Because I love every answer you have.
16:58 It's like I said.
16:59 It's like music hearing you talk.
17:00 And it's bringing-- it moves me, honestly.
17:03 Thank you.
17:04 Yeah.
17:05 Yeah, the opera singing.
17:06 That makes sense.
17:07 It's a spider plant, you know?
17:09 It's a spider plant.
17:10 Yeah, I'm getting energy.
17:11 Don't say it, huh?
17:12 So yes, I'm sorry, Lisa.
17:14 Because she's the one doing tech.
17:15 She's amazing.
17:15 She knows I'm going over.
17:16 But David, I want to ask you two more questions,
17:18 even though we're over time.
17:19 So keep that in mind.
17:20 I'm sorry.
17:20 Yeah, go ahead.
17:21 No, no, please don't apologize.
17:22 I love talking to you.
17:23 I know you learned so much in your career.
17:26 But I know that making the film "Make Her,"
17:29 you've learned so much more.
17:30 You're working-- you've learned so much just filming
17:33 your mentor and then editing it with her by your side
17:36 and helping you.
17:37 And what would you say is the biggest takeaway
17:40 that you learned from making this documentary?
17:43 Oh.
17:44 Well, I will say that she said something very important.
17:52 She said, don't be afraid to be poor.
17:55 And don't be afraid to be rich.
17:59 Because she said that she started
18:02 to make movies with just small cameras and with just one
18:07 light, with just a thing.
18:09 And she was not afraid of making a movie that way.
18:13 And then after, when she did the movie "Daddy," which was--
18:16 I don't know how many-- hundreds of costumes,
18:19 hundreds of extras.
18:21 It was a very rich, very big movie.
18:23 She was not afraid of that either.
18:26 So I learned that from her.
18:29 Because many times, once you start to have success,
18:31 you're like, oh, let me hold it a little bit.
18:34 Because you're afraid to go too big, to go too strong.
18:38 And I would say I learned that.
18:41 And also, she said something in the master class part,
18:45 which was really good.
18:46 She said-- but that's her signature.
18:49 She said, I don't want--
18:51 I want people, I want actors to look like people on the screen,
18:55 not like actors.
18:57 And I don't want people to say, oh, look,
19:00 we love the movement of the camera.
19:02 No, I want people to look like people.
19:05 And I thought that was really, really, really interesting.
19:09 And also the fact that she shared her difficulties
19:13 in the movie, that she said, oh my god, this moment to film
19:17 was a nightmare.
19:19 It's difficult.
19:20 She shared a lot also about the casting process.
19:24 And also even for her, to find the right actress sometimes
19:29 is not easy.
19:30 And no, I mean, really, it's a learning experience.
19:35 And she said also something when we did a Q&A,
19:38 because it was a screen in a movie theater in New York.
19:41 She said the difference between herself
19:44 and some other of her colleagues is that she never gave up.
19:48 She always came back with a new movie, always, always, always.
19:53 And I do the same.
19:54 I always come back with--
19:56 I'm not going to say I force myself,
19:58 but I really bring three, four, five productions a year,
20:03 even if sometimes I would be fine with just one,
20:07 because I don't want people to say, oh, no, he's gone.
20:10 That's it.
20:10 He did this.
20:11 That's the end of his career.
20:13 We don't hear about him anymore.
20:15 So you always go on and take more and more projects
20:19 to stay alive towards the eyes of people,
20:22 but also for yourself.
20:23 So I think that's what one of the many, many, many things
20:27 that she taught me.
20:28 So amazing.
20:29 The lesson of life.
20:32 So amazing.
20:33 There's so many inspiring quotes,
20:35 and even just from this interview, but from this film.
20:38 And I'm so happy for Garden State Film Festival
20:40 to watch this.
20:40 Quickly, I want to ask you, David,
20:42 why do you keep coming back to Garden State Film Festival?
20:45 And why is it so important for this festival to exist?
20:47 Well, for the food.
20:48 I come for the food only.
20:55 That's the only thing that matters for me.
20:58 The oysters, you know what I mean?
21:00 It's like oysters and mojito.
21:02 They had mojito, I remember, over there.
21:04 Mojito.
21:05 Mojito.
21:06 I said to the guy, do you have mojito?
21:08 He said, oh, mojito.
21:09 I said, yes, mojito.
21:11 No, no, it was--
21:14 Well, it's like a family.
21:17 And this film festival is growing,
21:19 and really the personality of Diane
21:22 reflects throughout this whole film festival.
21:25 And really, the window that you're giving to filmmakers--
21:29 because my movies, they go to film festivals.
21:32 Even on the website, I don't find it myself,
21:35 on their website.
21:36 But you guys really help also the filmmakers.
21:41 Doing this interview also is really helpful.
21:44 So thank you again so much for the opportunity.
21:46 But also, you talk before the movie.
21:49 You do a little book.
21:52 You see posters all around.
21:54 A great promotion tool.
21:56 So it's like having a great PR working for you.
22:00 But as I said, it's like a family
22:03 and the enthusiasm of everyone.
22:07 Plus, everybody told me that I have an accent from New Jersey.
22:10 So I thought I will connect to it.
22:15 I couldn't believe you're from Paris.
22:17 I really-- all I hear is Christopher Walken.
22:20 It's the biggest film festival of New Jersey.
22:23 And it's the first indie premiere festival in New Jersey.
22:28 Yeah, and definitely the biggest in New Jersey.
22:30 David, I got to cut us off.
22:33 But I hope I talk-- you're going to be at Garcet Film
22:35 Festival this year, right?
22:38 We knew you'd be here.
22:40 We knew it.
22:41 We have to talk more at the festival.
22:43 [LAUGHTER]
22:46 I didn't-- listen, I think I asked you three questions.
22:48 I had so many more questions.
22:50 I'm going to cry.
22:51 Like the girls at the Oscars, they go, thank you.
22:55 I just want to say--
22:57 Where's the handkerchief?
23:00 Yes.
23:00 They open their mouth.
23:01 Don't mess up your makeup.
23:04 Right?
23:06 You're right.
23:07 The mouth has to be open when you do it.
23:08 Honestly, I hope I'm going to win an award this year.
23:11 Oh, OK.
23:12 Well, I don't know.
23:14 I have no pull on that.
23:15 That's on Diane.
23:16 Last year, I won an award at Garden Film Festival.
23:19 Last year, I won an award for Best Jewish Film
23:23 Maker in his price range, which was a great award.
23:28 I was happy to get it.
23:29 I'm so happy they brought that award back.
23:32 I know.
23:33 I hope I'm going to get something this year.
23:34 After the first year, there was a lot of complaints,
23:36 and they took it down.
23:37 But honestly, being part of these three festivals
23:39 is the greatest award I could ever dream.
23:43 So thank you, really.
23:44 Please, everybody, go to attend to this great festival.
23:49 Go to support it.
23:51 And also, donate.
23:53 It's tax deductible from what I heard.
23:55 So please--
23:56 This is true.
23:58 I donated my ex-mother-in-law.
24:01 I heard it's tax deductible.
24:03 I said, please, take her.
24:05 Let's--
24:06 No, we'll take it all.
24:07 We'll take anything.
24:08 But anyway, but no, it's really great.
24:12 Best film festival ever.
24:13 So thank you.
24:14 I couldn't do a better closing.
24:16 But I can tell people how to see the filmmaker
24:19 and hopefully meet this charismatic, hilarious,
24:23 amazing artist in person.
24:25 Yes, yes.
24:26 Look at that smolder, everyone.
24:28 Meet David Sorrero.
24:30 There's no rolling the R's.
24:31 Sorrero.
24:32 Sorrero.
24:33 And watch the film maker.
24:35 Let me tell you how you can see it.
24:36 It will be--
24:37 Like I work at Chipotle.
24:38 Sorrero with guacamole.
24:41 Sorrero.
24:42 Exactly.
24:43 Sorrero.
24:44 It's like that right there.
24:45 You can whistle.
24:46 My ex-wife, she used to whistle.
24:49 She used to call me like this, my ex-wife.
24:52 Oh, OK.
24:56 So yeah, Sorrero is fine.
24:57 That's how you're called.
24:59 OK, now I know how to get your attention at Garza Film
25:01 Festival.
25:01 Guys, come watch the filmmaker.
25:03 It will be screening Sunday, March 24.
25:06 The film block starts at 12 PM at Jersey Shore Art Center.
25:10 And like David said, we got great food.
25:12 We got parties.
25:13 There is a filmmaker.
25:15 Meet the filmmakers night on Thursday.
25:16 There is Q&As after each screening.
25:18 There are celebrities, red carpet.
25:22 I'm sure there's massages somewhere.
25:24 I do it.
25:24 I do it for the people.
25:26 Right.
25:27 Let's not go around asking for massages.
25:31 But guys, yes, definitely come see this beautiful documentary.
25:35 Obviously, it is so inspiring.
25:37 You'll walk away with so many big takeaways.
25:39 David, thank you for this--
25:41 OK, I love you.
25:42 Thank you so much.
25:42 --unforgettable interview.
25:44 Honestly, thank you for the opportunity.
25:46 Thank you for watching.
25:47 Thank you for your benevolence.
25:49 Thank you, Liza, who is also working backstage.
25:53 So thank you.
25:54 Thank you to all of you.
25:55 And thank you, Diane.
25:56 Please, Diane.
25:57 God bless you, my dear.
25:59 Thank you for having me.
26:00 Thank you for all the team.
26:01 And thank you, Sofia, for your smile and for that plant.
26:06 Thank you so much.
26:07 Get yourself a spider plant, David.
26:09 Yeah, a spider plant.
26:09 It's really good for you and the energy and its healing.
26:12 It's good.
26:13 But you don't need any more energy.
26:14 You're great.
26:16 David, thank you again.
26:18 I think it's a pappuccino for energy, not a spider plant.
26:20 But that's OK.
26:22 It's been a pleasure.
26:23 It's been a pleasure talking to you.
26:24 God bless you, my dear.
26:25 Thank you for bringing us the filmmaker.
26:26 And I can't wait to see more of your work.
26:27 I hope you keep submitting to Garden State Film Festival.
26:31 All the time.
26:31 Every movie goes premiere in New Jersey.
26:34 Of all my movies for life, it goes to Garden State Film
26:37 Festival.
26:38 You have my word.
26:39 Thank you.
26:39 We are honored.
26:41 Have a wonderful night or evening.
26:43 I don't know what it is.
26:44 It's midnight now.
26:45 Have a wonderful night.
26:46 Thank you again.
26:47 And congratulations.
26:48 Congratulations to you.
26:49 Thank you, dear.
26:49 Bye-bye.
26:50 Bye.
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