Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is filmmaker, screenwriter and theologian Craig Detweiler who is based in Los Angeles. Craig grew up in North Carolina and went to film school in California where he has lived since. He has taught Destin Daniel Cretton, the director/screenwriter of Just Mercy (2019) which was the first movie in Hollywood to be made with an inclusion rider. We talk about Destin’s next project which will be a superhero movie. Craig discusses Black Lives Matter and the Equal Justice Initiative and the role of nostalgia in charting our lives from childhood. He explains that people who work in the film industry don’t take their successes for granted and see it as a privilege to tell stories for a living. We discuss how some of the best films have been made about people on the wrong side of Hollywood, e.g. P.T. Anderson’s Magnolia. We talk about the artifice and green screen dimension to films and compare it to the big Hollywood sets in previous generations recreating, say, ancient Egypt, and the repurposin