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Join Charlene and Jackie, two NYC film crew workers with an absolute love of art house films …and an absolute lack of press passes to see those films at the major festivals where they premiere.

Each month your two hosts will venture through the wilds of NYC public transportation and psychotic post screening Q&A’s to discuss a festival film that has finally been released to the general public.

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Blue Heron

July 16, 2026 • Tickets Secured Pod • Episode 16

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Join Charlene and Jackie for a mid summer cry over troubled teens - but also a fun discussion of memory, healing, and IFC Center Popcorn as they cover Sophy Romvari’s festival favorite Blue Heron.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

1:28 The tiny theater at the IFC center holds 32 seats.

8:54 “Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)

13:20 Sophy Romvari discusses Still Processing, screens, film, and memory

17:04 Zia Angers ‘My First Film’ (2024)

19:30 Charlene and Jackie are both wrong, the children's movie they are discussing is actually called Turning Red

23:40 ‘Everyone knows what love bombing means now’ - The Rise of Therapy Speak

33:30 Conduit To The Past: Sophy Romvari discusses the technical decisions of how to depict memory in Blue Heron

42:30 “Credits play out over snapshots of a teenager’s hand-drawn maps that reference such locations as “Fantasyville.” Outside of “Blue Heron,” these are maps that one of Romvari’s own brothers created in his youth.

45:03 London Falling and the New Yorker Article it is based on

46:02 The book Jackie is talking about is Columbine by Dave Cullen

47:00 “Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling”

49:00 The many folklore / Odyssey references in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

55:45 The Unglamorous Financial Realities of 5 Indie Filmmakers

58:15 Severance creator was inspired by The Backrooms, but the similarities don’t stop there

1:01:25 The art director from Obsession’s viral post where she discusses being paid $300/day

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