{"podcast":{"title":"Macabre...ish Cults, Classics & Horrors","slug":"macabre-ish-cults-classics-horrors-1311485","podcast_index_feed_id":1311485,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/macabreish/feed.xml","website_url":"https://www.macabreish.com","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/macabreish/podcast_cover.jpg","author":"Kimberly","episode_count":88,"summary":"Here we chat with the people who make the movies we love. Old and new, big budget and small. We celebrate the classics, cults and horrors. Find more movies at www.macabreish.com, as well as macabre_ish on IG .","last_synced_at":"2026-06-26T06:20:18.700552+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/macabre-ish-cults-classics-horrors-1311485"},"episode":{"title":"Christine W. Chen Director of Erzulie, Mermaid Horror Film","slug":"christine-w-chen-director-of-erzulie-mermaid-horror-film","published_at":"2023-01-28T23:09:18+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/macabre-ish-cults-classics-horrors-1311485/christine-w-chen-director-of-erzulie-mermaid-horror-film","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/macabre-ish-cults-classics-horrors-1311485","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/macabreish/2635905","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/378335/2635905/macabreish/2026_03_17_11_21_33_2156a01f-eb84-4359-8b9c-19918b314898.mp3","summary":"Christine Chen has always been in film in some capacity since college. She got her start in documentary filmmaking. Also making a lot of shorts, including A Bird’s Nest. She went to grad school at UT and started hustling in the Austin film scene. She then started making films and submitting them to a Louisiana film festival called Film Prize. All shorts have to be made in Louisiana and the big prize is $50,000. So from Austin, Christine moved to Shreveport for a year to work and submit to the festival. While there, she built her team and network. Christine talks about how she eased her parents into her wanting to be a filmmaker. She also has advice for college students who want to go into film. She talks about the difference between a director who earns their way and those who don’t. The reason she made her film, Erzulie (Er-zuh-lee), and how that went from distribution deal to funding. The pandemic has a lot to do with it, of course. She wrote a script in a month that spawned from a short, and it was accepted so now they were suddenly making a feature. It’s quite a wild ride. Plus how they were able to shoot in 11 days despite problems. This is part one… Find Christine everything, here: https://mothtoflamefilms.com https://www.erzuliefilm.com/director https://www.christinewchen.com Find Us: Christopher Thompson on IG @theauthor__ and mastodon @https://mastodon.world/@WestReAnimated Kimberly at http://www.macabreish.com and IG and Tiktok @macabre_ish. https://linktr.ee/macabre_ish Carlos Ibarra on Twitter & IG @jekyl6669 and https://www.fillintheblanksproductions.ca/","meta_description":"Christine Chen has always been in film in some capacity since college. She got her start in documentary filmmaking. Also making a lot of shorts, including…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2050,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/macabre-ish-cults-classics-horrors-1311485/episodes/christine-w-chen-director-of-erzulie-mermaid-horror-film/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/macabre-ish-cults-classics-horrors-1311485/christine-w-chen-director-of-erzulie-mermaid-horror-film.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}