How To Make Movies In the Apocalypse with Todd Rohal and Megan Griffiths
Sat Dec 06:
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Duration: 1h 30m
Instructor: Todd Rohal
About
Join us at Northwest Film Forum for another in an ongoing series of conversation about how to make movies in the apocalypse (AKA our current cinema and cultural landscape). This month, local filmmaker Megan Griffiths sits down with Todd Rohal, a director of film and television whose most recent project, FUCK MY SON!, based on the comic by Johnny Ryan, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and went on to screen at Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, Sitges Film Festival, and more, before embarking on a successful multi-city self-produced theatrical tour.
Want to see FUCK MY SON! before this talk? It’s screening courtesy of The Grand Illusion Cinema at SIFF Film Center on December 5th and 6th!
Todd and Megan also attended film school together in the 90s and have been friends ever since, working together on Todd’s films THE GUATEMALAN HANDSHAKE, CATECHISM CATACLYSM, and RAT PACK RAT. The two will chat with each other about the evolution of the film industry, the controversies around FUCK MY SON!, Todd’s motivations for putting his heart and soul into this subject matter, how he has gone about mounting his expectation-defying, word-of-mouth-driven distribution campaign, and how other filmmakers might be able to harness these techniques to navigate this challenging era.
Todd Rohal
Filmmaker
Todd Rohal has been making movies on the fringes since the late 90’s. His feature-length films are called The Guatemalan Handshake, The Catechism Cataclysm, Nature Calls, Uncle Kent 2 and Fuck My Son! His short films and TV works have titles like: Rat Pack Rat, M.O.P.Z., The Suplex Duplex Complex, Hunky Boys Go Ding-Dong and Knuckleface Jones. He wrote a third installment of The Christmas Chronicles with Toby Halbrooks and directed episodes of Haters Back Off and Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell. His latest feature film, Fuck My Son! premiered at TIFF and is currently being distributed city-by-city only in movie theaters on 35mm film.