FunkZone Podcast

Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader, the directors of Point of No Return are on the podcast today. Their documentary, which showed at this year’s SBIFF, follows two determined men and their crew to fly the first solar powered airplane around the globe. (Spoiler: they do so.) I met Quinn and Noel, who both have Santa...

After a much too long hiatus we are back with Clifford Miu, who I interviewed last year about his film Porcupine. Now he is back at SBIFF with his new short Bargain. It’s about a haunted New York apartment. In this interview, we talk about getting this film made, his work with Martin Scorsese and...

Brazilian action film director! Homero Olivetto is on the show today. He was in town during the film festival this last February with his first feature film Holy Biker, and we managed to grab him for a chat. The movie is about a biker gang in the northern wilds of Brazil who steal an idol...

Energy-infused painter! Max Gleason is on the show today. He is a painter who mixes both the figurative with the abstract and patterned, resulting in a very contemporary style that I have to say I’m glad to see in Santa Barbara. And we’re lucky to have him as he moved here from New York City,...

Filmmaking couple! Alice Foulcher and Greg Erdstein are on the show this week. They’re a filmmaking couple who were here in town last month to promote their new comedy That’s Not Me which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. The couple are married and while they wrote the script together, Alice starred while...

Documentary filmmaker! Brad Kuhlman is on the show this week, having rolled through town back in February to premiere his documentary Where Have You Gone Lou DiMaggio. This doc follows the former stand-up comedian as he decides to rejoin the comedy circuit he decided to leave over twenty years ago and the struggles he faces...

Documentary Filmmaker! Sky Bergman is on the show today. She’s a filmmaker from San Luis Obispo who premiered her documentary Lives Well Lived at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This feature length doc interviewed forty people aged 75-100 with a collective life experience of 3000 years who shared their secrets, wit, and wisdom....

Writer-director of The Good Catholic! Paul Shoulberg is our guest today. He’s a writer-director who brought his new film The Good Catholic to premiere at this year’s Santa Barbara International Film Festival and we agreed to have a nice sit down talk about the film, how he got it made, how he became a writer...

Award-winning illustrator! David Wiesner is a prolific and stunningly talented illustrator who has won the Caldecott medal three times in his career, for Tuesday (1992), The Three Pigs (2002), and Flotsam (2007). If you have kids, you just might have these beautiful and strange books on your shelf. He was in town for the opening...

Award-winning jazz drummer and composer! Luis Muñoz is on the show today. He’s an award-winning jazz drummer, percussionist, and composer, who has been recording in America since the 1990s. He’s won several ACAM awards for his work, regularly has his work written up as best Latin Jazz albums of whatever year they are coming out....