Director, Daniel Patrick Carbone, on Hide Your Smiling Faces.
Come on, come all if you like your coming-of-age dramas with a heavy sense of the looming macabre. I sat down for a Skype session with debutant director Daniel Patrick Carbone, and tried not talk too much about death.
"Well, our formula for the film, was not to have one"
Originally posted here, at Screenjabber.
Straight off the bat, how did you manage to coerce such remarkably convincing performances out of your duo of young actors, Ryan Jones & Nathan Varnson?
Lastly, the obvious one – what's next for you?
I'm making a documentary about a similar subject to this, it's another film about male adolescence in a traditional “small-town” USA setting. It's another slice-of-life type film.
Another Screenjabber podcast. This week we have a good old rant at Michael Bay, chief operator and orchestrator of Bayhem Industries, and get nostalgic talking about Boyhood, Richard Linklater's magnum opus. Also, Begin Again and How To Train Your Dragon 2.