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Mentally Gil: Conversations with Creators - introducing The Best Advice Show

introducing The Best Advice Show

12/30/22 • 9 min

Mentally Gil: Conversations with Creators

Gil is excited to introduce you to "The Best Advice Show" from Zak Rosen. What follows are short conversations with the filmmakers Sarah Polley ("Stories We Tell") and Mike Mills ("C'mon C'mon).

Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with the drama film Away from Her in 2006. Polley received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, which she adapted from the Alice Munro story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Her other projects include the documentary film Stories We Tell (2012), which won the New York Film Critics Circle prize and the National Board of Review award for best documentary; the miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace (2017); and the romantic comedy Take This Waltz (2011). Polley began her acting career as a child, starring in many productions for film and television. Her new book is Run Towards the Danger.

Mike Mills is a filmmaker and the writer/director of C'mon C'mon.---In this episode Mike references Patti Smith, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Eric Satie, Édouard Manet, The Clash, IDLES.---The movie Zak talks about is Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July.

Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show

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Gil is excited to introduce you to "The Best Advice Show" from Zak Rosen. What follows are short conversations with the filmmakers Sarah Polley ("Stories We Tell") and Mike Mills ("C'mon C'mon).

Sarah Polley is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor. After making short films, Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with the drama film Away from Her in 2006. Polley received an Oscar nomination for the screenplay, which she adapted from the Alice Munro story “The Bear Came Over the Mountain.” Her other projects include the documentary film Stories We Tell (2012), which won the New York Film Critics Circle prize and the National Board of Review award for best documentary; the miniseries adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace (2017); and the romantic comedy Take This Waltz (2011). Polley began her acting career as a child, starring in many productions for film and television. Her new book is Run Towards the Danger.

Mike Mills is a filmmaker and the writer/director of C'mon C'mon.---In this episode Mike references Patti Smith, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Pierre Baudelaire, Eric Satie, Édouard Manet, The Clash, IDLES.---The movie Zak talks about is Me and You and Everyone We Know by Miranda July.

Leave Zak your advice by calling 844-935-BEST---IG: @bestadviceshowhome: bestadvice.show

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CREDITS:
Host & Executive Producer - Gil Kruger
Executive Producer - Zac Stuart-Pontier
Produced & Edited - Melisa D. Monts + Diane Kang of Diamond MPrint Productions
Post-production Sound - Sam Bair
Theme Song & Ad Break Music - Austin Archer
Show Artwork - Stephanie Hall Marin
Additional Music - Slip.stream - https://www.slip.stream/?fpr=gilly (affiliate)

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