Author: Gig Patta

Gig Patta

Gig Patta is a journalist and interviewer for LRM and Latino-Review since 2009. He was a writer for other entertainment sites in the past with Collider and IESB.net. He originally came from the world of print journalism with several years as a reporter with the San Diego Business Journal and California Review. He earned his MBA from the Keller Graduate School of Management and BA in Economics from UC San Diego. Follow him on Instagram @gigpatta or Facebook @officialgigpatta.

Go Back to China: Lynn Chen and Director Emily Ting on Bringing This Asian Story to Life | SXSW 2019 [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezUGBY9GJJM America can be tough for success. For immigrants, to return home can even be tougher. Based on real life events of director Emily Ting, Go Back to China follows a spoiled rich girl named

Captive State: Director Rupert Wyatt on Creating An Alien Occupation Film | SXSW 2019 [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i68xCzI406A&feature=youtu.be With an enemy occupation, the real enemy may not be the foreign invaders, but it may be the neighbors who sympathize with the enemy. In the sci-fi backdrop of the future, Captive State looks

Welcome to Acapulco: Michael Kingsbaker On Mexico and Doing Own Stunts [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLJYUlHJZUo Apparently, someone took a wrong turn at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and ended up in Acapulco, Mexico. In the action comedy, Welcome to Acapulco, the film follows a video gamer developer who ended up on

Fear the Walking Dead: Danay Garcia on New Beautiful Beginnings and Harsh Endings of Season Four [Exclusive]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUf5K0Q5q8 The spin-off show Fear the Walking Dead is going strong with its own identify from the original show The Walking Dead. The show led us to the beginnings of the zombie apocalypse in California

Instant Family: Gustavo Quiroz on Playing An Emotional and Clumsy Foster Kid [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfZq3DUd3Y The family that plays together, stays together. In one of the more surprising theatrical hits of last year, family comedy Instant Family was adored by many audiences as a real down-to-Earth comedy that dealt

Greta: Director Neil Jordan On Creating a Female Stalker Movie [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAEoJkL_8zU Nice people are so naïve. Do not trust strangers. In Greta, a young woman befriends a lonely widow after she found her purse abandoned on the subway. Unbeknownst to her, the older woman harbors

The Amityville Murders: John Robinson On Portraying Butch DeFeo [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFPAgkuiOes&has_verified=1 The story of Amityville keeps living on. The Amityville Murders is a look into Butch DeFeo, who murdered his entire family as they slept with a high-powered rifle on the fateful night of November

Larry Charles’ Dangerous World of Comedy: Charles On Comedians Risking Lives In Oppressed Places and War Zones [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQaIDo94viA It’s a very dangerous world out there. We hope comedy can unite us. But, there are several comedians around the world who are risking their own lives and close ones for humor. In the

Alita: Battle Angel: Director Robert Rodriguez Bringing James Cameron’s Vision to Life [Exclusive Interview]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3D2vmWD88w It’s years in the making. It’s been more than two decades since James Cameron acquired the film right to Yukito Kishiro’s Battle Angel Alita. Cameron had been busy with Avatar movies and Titanic to

Spiral Farm: Red Carpet Interviews | Slamdance Cinema Club

Commune life is different. Folks in these communes will be self-sustaining, happy, but isolated from the outside world. In director Alec Tibaldi’s feature film debut Spiral Farm, it is a powerful drama starring Piper De