Hey guys, I'm Ricardo Managhan and this is the Insider Series.
I'm sitting with Matt, the director and writer of Larry Gondeman and he's one of our Silver
Whiskers award winners.
So why don't you just tell the people a little bit about your film?
Sure.
The film is a 14 minute short horror comedy about an asshole demon roommate invading a
space where a bunch of punk kids are squatting in a house.
Now this idea, it has to come from life, real life.
Tell us a little bit about where you got it from and what made you want to kind of twist
it in this way.
Oh absolutely.
So yeah, I mean just having bad roommate after bad roommate and instead of doing a slice
of life drama or a dramedy or something like that, I was like why don't I take some of
these issues like not cleaning up after themselves or blasting music and go as big as I can.
Raise the stakes in the biggest ways possible.
What made you want to go with the kind of horror drama, the horror genre like saying
like man what made you want to go in that direction with that?
I've always loved horror movies and I've always loved comedy so it just was like a natural
extension.
Most of the films that I make or have some type of horror or comedic elements to them.
So and it's plus it's just like an opportunity for me to hang out with my friends and like
yeah, yeah, yeah a bunch of like demon babies around, yeah it's going to be great.
So I'm guessing, I'm assuming which I usually shouldn't do but that you get to work with
your friends as often as you like and how much, how important is that for you to going
forward like working on films, like how important is for you to have that crew of people that
you work with?
Oh yeah, I mean it's just a support system and it's also makes shooting a film as I'm
sure you know and the people watching it's such a kind of terrible experience if you're
doing it on a micro budget.
So you want to be around people that one are supporting you and you're supporting them
and you're just, you're trying to make each other laugh, you're trying to like, you're
trying to surprise each other and kind of break up the monotony of having to do take
after take.
So yeah, I mean I wouldn't want it any other way.
I write parts specifically for certain friends and people that I want to work with so yeah,
it's just a great experience.
That's awesome, yeah.
So why don't you tell us a little bit what we can find at work, what we can find online.
Sure.
And then like that.
Sure.
Okay.
So my handle is Young Bull, Instagram, it's KidDynamat, so instead of KidDynamite, you
just put instead of Mike Matt.
And you can look up some of my other films that you can just Google, Enter the Beard,
which is a documentary on the world beard and mustache championships, Shoebox Redhead,
which is a weird surreal comedy and right now we're working on distribution for a feature
that I did years back called Two Pines Slider, so that's not out yet, but hopefully very
soon.
Hopefully.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for coming.
All right.
Thank you Matt.
Yeah, and thank you guys for watching.
If you want to know more about us, congestedcat.com, go there, watch again, please.
All right.
Have a good one.
