The Oscars have got us thinking all about the magic of cinema, and we’ve got two stories on the power of film, and the hold it has on people. So whether your favorite movie of 2024 was I Saw The TV Glow, Challengers, or Sing Sing - the actual best film of 2024, get your popcorn out, and get ready to watch a, well, listen to, a story. This episode was hosted by Emily Couch Storytellers: Frank Ortega begins his career in the movies. Brittney Cooper gets an unexpected call from Tyler Perry. Podcast # 908 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Welcome to the Moth Podcast. I'm Emily Couch, and on this episode... He's looking at you, kid.
Rosebud.
Forget it, Jake.
It's Chinatown.
Yes, it's the moth at the movies. The Oscars have got us thinking all about the magic of cinema, and we've got some stories on the power of film and the hold it has on people. So whether your favorite movie of this year was I Saw the TV Glow, Challengers, or Substance, my favorite movie of 2024, get your popcorn out and get ready to watch, well, listen to a story.
First, we have Frank Ortega, who told us at a New York City Story Slam where the theme was, appropriately enough, movies. Here's Frank, live at the moth.
I love movies, and it's hard not to. I mean, you'd have to say, like, I don't love dreaming. And I grew up watching them, and one of my memories, a few times I was alone with my mom, we had a time together, was the Oscars when they went really late.
Everyone else would go to bed, and she and I would sit up on the couch and watch it to the end, and she would make these special snacks that she never made at any other time. And then I got a Super 8 camera and a video camera and I would do this stuff in high school and then in college. It was just so exciting. And so I graduated and then I came to New York. I was just like itching to make movies.
And it was like hitting a brick wall at 90 miles an hour. Because it's like you need to work, you need rent, you need... And my mother, who had always been... Both my parents were very sarcastic about that line of work. My mom would be like, well, I'm sure you could go to an employment agency and just say that you want to be a director.
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