BEHIND THE LENS #329: Featuring Miles Doleac

Behind The Lens

On this week's episode of BEHIND THE LENS we take a look at two films – one steeped in the past and the other, set in present-day but affected by a past centuries old. Take a listen as POTSY PONCIROLI talks OLD HENRY and MILES DOLEAC talks DEMIGOD. First up, my prerecorded exclusive interview with writer/director POTSY PONCIROLI talking about his new film, OLD HENRY. Set in 1906, this is the story of an old farmer who has seen better days, days long buried. But what happens when Henry gives aid to an injured man and a gun-toting posse shows up at his door? Patient and pot-boiling, this is a film you should see and interview you should hear! Listen as Potsy talks about the story, casting, the importance of location and how it influenced the script and story, production design including build-out to the 100-year old house used as Henry's farm and accompanying period set-dress, cinematography and working with John Matysiak, Jamie Kirkpatrick's editing and finding the right build of tension, working with pigs and horses and altering the script to accommodate the equine moods, Jordan Lehning's score, and more. Then listen to MILES DOLEAC who joins us live talking about his latest film, DEMIGOD! Melding his passions for history and mythological lore into visual tapestries that are often blood-soaked and visceral, DEMIGOD takes us into the Black Forest of Germany and the legend of the god Cernunnos. Diving into the legend of Cernunnos as a starting point for this story, Miles talks about "tweaks" to Cernunnos for storytelling purposes, developing the story structure and build of witches and characters alike, casting, cinematography and using anamorphic lenses to capture specific lens flares, shooting during pandemic lockdown in the wilderness area of Little Black Creek in Mississippi and how the isolation of the cast and crew worked to the film's advantage, Lindsay Anne Williams costuming, developing visual tonal bandwidth and rooting the visuals in nature, sound design and mix with attention to ambient sound, musical influences from chorale to Brian May that were melded together by composer Clifton Hyde to create a haunting, "earthy" score, and more. http://eliasentertainmentnetwork.com