{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Ep 650: Izzy Lee","description":"Filmmaker Izzy Lee (HOUSE OF ASHES) joins Adam and Joe in the ArieScope studio to share her career journey and discuss the making of her debut feature film (now available on most every VOD platform). From living in Boston working every job she could while making a name for herself as a journalist covering movies, festivals, and entertainment culture\u2026 to making a whopping 27 short films- many of which made splashes at well known festivals around the world- only to still find herself without any opportunities to make a feature\u2026 to spending almost a decade pitching features to no avail\u2026 to how she made the most of the pandemic\u2019s forced hiatus by enrolling in classes and constantly working on her craft while she couldn\u2019t actually be in active production\u2026 to shooting HOUSE OF ASHES in Los Angeles with extremely limited resources while living in San Francisco\u2026 to how she discovered her film\u2019s lead Fayna Sanchez\u2026 to doing her own DYI promotion for the movie and winding up in the pages of Fangoria (a medal of honor for any genre filmmaker), Izzy\u2019s journey has been a long but inspirational road. Also, Dr. Arwen provides \u201cHollywood Therapy\u201d for a filmmaker with budgetary questions, the guys reflect on Halloween 2025 and the group discusses society\u2019s morbid celebration of the Salem Witch Trials. ","author_name":"The Movie Crypt","author_url":"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/TheMovieCrypt","html":"