{"id":37469,"date":"2022-03-03T23:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T22:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/an-interview-with-tom-dwyer-producer-and-co-director-of-frank-bey-all-my-dues-are-paid\/"},"modified":"2024-04-09T19:04:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T17:04:33","slug":"an-interview-with-tom-dwyer-producer-and-co-director-of-frank-bey-all-my-dues-are-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/en\/an-interview-with-tom-dwyer-producer-and-co-director-of-frank-bey-all-my-dues-are-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"AN INTERVIEW WITH TOM DWYER, PRODUCER AND CO-DIRECTOR OF &#8220;FRANK BEY: ALL MY DUES ARE PAID&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" 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style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Thank you for meeting us Tom, and for your moving film. When did the idea to start documenting Frank Bey see the light?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p>After hearing Frank sing in person and seeing how well the audience responded to him, I felt as if we had a wonderful subject to follow. Over the 2+ years we filmed Frank, my initial feelings were deeply reinforced. Frank became more than a subject to me; he became a dear friend.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>You have a co-Director, namely Marie Hinson. Tell us about this collaboration, in writing, directing choices etc.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><p>I first met Marie when I auditioned for her MFA thesis film required by her film program at Temple University. The audition was one of the best that I have ever had. Acting under her direction was wonderful. She had a clear vision of the story she wanted to tell and gave me very clear and sensitive direction.<\/p>\n<p>Marie later invited me to work with her on an improvised film she made in rural Virginia. That, too, was good fun and quite inspired. When I decided to film Frank\u2019s first concert, Marie\u2019s name came to me immediately. Her cinematography was second to none and approached that of some long-standing professionals. Since neither she nor I had ever made a feature film, let alone a documentary, I saw our experience as something akin to on the job training. We collaborated with one another from our first day, making decisions about how to follow Frank, creating and then re-creating treatments, developing the arc of the film, conferring before any trip about what we hoped to get at the shoot and following up each shoot with deep discussion about what we had learned about Frank, attending classes, workshops and conferences together to learn more about making a feature film, conferring with successful filmmakers whose experiences could guide us, applying to festivals throughout the US, interviewing editors, and finally discussing (and sometimes arguing about) how our final cut would appear. 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How did you all, including Frank, &#8220;negotiate&#8221; those moments, what was the process in deciding that the camera could or should be there?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><p>At the beginning of our project, we asked Frank if he would be comfortable being shadowed for a year by Marie. That year eventually turned into two and a half years. Frank was excited that we had chosen him to follow. He believed that by showing his life as a modern, relatively unknown Blues singer, he could give viewers a picture that rarely is seen by most people, people who see an entertainer on a big stage as one who commands respect from all corners of life, makes a lot of money, and is a specimen of good health.<\/p>\n<p>Although Frank consistently found himself to be marginalized, to live almost in poverty and to suffer from chronic kidney issues, he never complained. The only time that Frank insisted we not film him was when he met with a doctor who told him that he would need to return to regular dialysis treatment. He feared that that meeting would be too emotional for him to share with anyone other than his wife. Otherwise that camera was always present and running when we followed Frank.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:5%;--awb-margin-bottom:5%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-7 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"956\" height=\"997\" title=\"c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6~mv2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-39067\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27956%27%20height%3D%27997%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20956%20997%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27956%27%20height%3D%27997%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2-200x209.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2-400x417.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2-600x626.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2-800x834.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_f16a28e7a1944abe85ec6494c16017b6mv2.jpg 956w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Frank&#8217;s story is indeed one of resilience, as you express in the statement you shared with us. What stays with you, has he in any way been a role model?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-8\"><p>Frank is the epitome of resilience, determination and inner strength. That he could give an excellent performance in front of thousands of people, sing with passion and determination and energy and then, after leaving the stage, need to recover by resting for a long time or going to sleep as soon as he could, spoke deeply to me. Frank became a role model for me and I think\/hope that the way he chose to live will be come a role model for all who view our film.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>You filmed over a period of time, how long? How did you organize your teams, and the people featured (musicians, other participants\u2026). Please tell us more about the actual shoot, along those lines.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-10\"><p>From beginning till end, we spent more than 5 years working together. Marie and I were the primary filmmakers to plan, follow, shoot, and review cuts of our work with Frank. Because she was part of the small independent filmmaking community in Philadelphia, Marie hired crews as needed. Our smallest crew was 2; our largest was 8. The footage that we shot was all verit\u00e9, so we never directed anyone.<\/p>\n<p>We interviewed people as we met them at different venues and events. We rented a recording studio for the Moorish Vanguard reunion and invited people who knew of the band to come to watch the filming, but no one received any direction. We also rented a film set for the interview with Frank that appears throughout the film. We invited and interviewed about 30 colleagues and friends of Frank\u2019s to serve as an audience during Frank\u2019s interview shoot, but the only cut that appears in the film, in addition to Frank\u2019s, is the short piece featuring Barbara Bey. We were \u201cflies on the wall\u201d while shooting at Ocean Way Studio in Nashville. We see our film as a melding of three threads made up of interview, verit\u00e9, and archival cuts.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:5%;--awb-margin-bottom:5%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-8 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" title=\"c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1~mv2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1mv2.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1mv2.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-39066\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27720%27%20height%3D%27480%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20720%20480%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27720%27%20height%3D%27480%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1mv2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1mv2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1mv2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_5aa47c8ae8b54681871784397bf732c1mv2.jpg 720w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>What are the avenues for the distribution and screenings of the film?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-12\"><p>Of course we hope that our appearance at your festival will find an audience and perhaps as a result a distributor interested in working with us. We have applied to other festivals and hope for the same. We have been in contact with a few New York distributing agents (before we reached final cut) and will again reach out to them in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>We expect to attend and screen our film at the Baden Blues Festival (featured in the film) in Switzerland in late Spring, as well as the annual Blues Music Awards in Memphis where we will also screen. Our current objective is to get our film in front of as many eyes as possible, with the hope that it will be discovered by someone else who believes that it needs to be seen by many others.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"text-align:center;--awb-margin-top:5%;--awb-margin-bottom:5%;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-9 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" title=\"c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232~mv2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232mv2.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232mv2.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-39065\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27720%27%20height%3D%27480%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20720%20480%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27720%27%20height%3D%27480%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232mv2-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232mv2-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232mv2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_c889c55a938d48248fe4d18a639ba232mv2.jpg 720w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-13\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>It seems you made Frank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid because Frank was your friend. Has the experience, beyond the grief of having to see him leave the building, inspired you to make more films? If so, would you care to share about possible up and coming projects?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-14\"><p>Frank became my friend as a result of making the film. I still believe that if one chooses to make a film, they need to realize that it will cost them a lot of money and require a great deal of work. Never say never, but I do not think that at 72 years old I will want to make another film. Unless, of course, I have the miraculous opportunity to meet another who inspires me as did Frank Bey. I intend to get back to my own pursuit of music when the dust of this film finally settles, but who can ever predict what the future actually holds? Getting to know Frank, following and filming his life for a few years, and seeing him assume an integral place in my heart and in my life is likely a once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/p>\n<p>I will always be grateful for becoming a close friend of his. I will always be grateful for being a part of his lifetime dream of making a record with some of the greatest musicians of our time. I will always be grateful for the many deep and wonderful conversations Frank and I had. I still greatly miss him, but he continues to live in my heart. And for that, too, I will always be grateful.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-15\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Short statement describing your vision of the post-covid cinema, do you think there will be notable changes?<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-16\"><p>I suspect that streaming will have become an even more important distribution channel for new films after the pandemic subsides and it will overshadow traditional movie theater presentations. I find that prospect quite sad, but probably inevitable.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-builder-row-inner fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"--awb-flex-grow:0;--awb-flex-grow-medium:0;--awb-flex-grow-small:0;--awb-flex-shrink:0;--awb-flex-shrink-medium:0;--awb-flex-shrink-small:0;width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-0 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-center fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-four\" style=\"--awb-margin-top-small:10px;--awb-margin-right-small:0px;--awb-margin-bottom-small:10px;--awb-margin-left-small:0px;\"><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-left\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-dashed\" style=\"border-color:var(--awb-color4);\"><\/div><\/div><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><h4 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-center\" style=\"margin:0;\">BIO<\/h4><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container title-sep-container-right\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-dashed\" style=\"border-color:var(--awb-color4);\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-17\" style=\"--awb-text-color:var(--awb-color4);--awb-text-font-family:&quot;LemonMilk&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>TOM DWYER PRODUCER AND CO-DIRECTOR<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-18\"><p>Fifteen years ago, when I retired from a career as a high school English teacher, I never could have fathomed that one day I would be producing a feature documentary film about one of the most amazing people I have ever met. What a journey I\u2019ve had! I was born and spent most of my life in and around Philadelphia. I attended Philadelphia public schools, Philadelphia\u2019s Drexel University (BS-English Ed, 1972), and Temple University at night (M Ed, 1980).<\/p>\n<p>In 1972 when I began teaching English in suburban Philadelphia, I realized how film can sometimes reach struggling students in ways that books might not. \u201cOn the Waterfront,\u201d \u201cRebel Without a Cause,\u201d \u201cTriumph of the Will,\u201d \u201cHarlan County USA\u201d and many other great movies each allowed my students to experience a vast number of thoughts and feelings, giving me openings for discussions that otherwise would have been difficult to find. To balance the hectic nature of my classroom work and to prepare well for my students each day, I turned to music, a joy that I had found in my life as a four-year old child. I used music to connect to my students in all of my classes throughout my career: folk, rock, gospel, hip-hop, jazz, etc., music by Steeleye-Span, Eric Clapton, Paul Robeson, LL Cool J, Ella Fitzgerald and many others, music and performances that moved me and that I hoped would engage my students. Most of the time my hopes were met.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually I decided that my personal musical needs required attention, and so I auditioned for and was accepted by an excellent community choir. I later auditioned for and was accepted to sing in the world-renowned Peter Nero\u2019s Philly Pops Christmas Chorus, a highlight of my singing \u201ccareer\u201d that lasted for 12 years until Covid arrived. Concurrently, I studied classical, fingerstyle and blues guitar; I later learned the Irish bouzouki and joined a number of Irish music traditional sessions in the area. As much as I loved my classroom and the students I worked with, a different part of my brain found deep pleasure and much satisfaction from my musical endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>When I retired from teaching in 2006, I whimsically auditioned and was accepted for an acting role for the US cable TV\u2019s History Channel in a film called \u201cStealing Lincoln\u2019s Body.\u201d The role and the work motivated me to take acting classes and soon after acting gigs, first on student productions, for TV, and later on a few Hollywood productions.<\/p>\n<p>n 2016 a friend asked me whether I would be interested in making a film about Frank Bey, a local, relatively unknown soul \/blues singer whom he had heard at a local fair. I immediately answered, \u201cNo!! Making a film is too expensive and is too much work.\u201d But after unexpectedly hearing Frank\u2019s gorgeous and soulful baritone voice later that week on our TV\u2019s cable music streaming service, I was sold. I contacted Marie Hinson, a cinematographer with whom I had worked, and invited her to hire a crew that would make a short film featuring Frank in concert. [\u2026] I then asked her whether she would be interested in making a feature documentary film about Frank and his life, one that would show the everyday life and struggles of an unknown modern blues artist. [\u2026]\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>After spending nearly six years on making \u201cFrank Bey: All My Dues Are Paid\u201d, I can now say that all of the money spent and all of the work that has gone into our film has resulted in one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. And who knows, perhaps one day in some American high school English class, some English teacher will choose to share our film and Frank\u2019s story and music with her students.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column_inner fusion-builder-nested-column-1 fusion_builder_column_inner_1_2 1_2 fusion-flex-column fusion-flex-align-self-center\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:3.84%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:3.84%;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:3.84%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:3.84%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-10 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" title=\"c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039~mv2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2.jpg\" alt class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-39068\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271000%27%20height%3D%271000%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201000%201000%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271000%27%20height%3D%271000%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2-800x800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.world-film-festival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c3199b_a0fbd72d8b7941c487b10f1a64575039mv2.jpg 1000w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-19\"><p>Links<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0245545<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.frankbeymusic.com<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/allmyduesarepaidfilm.com<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-20\"><p>ITV 2023<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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