OV491 - HIFF2025: Filmmaker Interviews - A Simple Machine (2025) & Disposable Humanity (2025)

The Obsessive Viewer - Movie Review Podcast

In this special episode, I share my experience at this year's Heartland Film Festival (HIFF34) before playing two filmmaker interviews I conducted. In the first interview, I chat with director/editor/writer Mark Hoffman and producer Alyssa Roehrenbeck about their film A Simple Machine. Then, I talk with director/cinematographer/writer Cameron Mitchell and co-writer David Mitchell about their documentary, Disposable Humanity.

Timestamps

• Show Start - 00:28
• Thoughts on HIFF34 - 03:18
• HIFF34 Awards - 05:43
• What I Saw at HIFF34 - 09:39

Filmmaker Interviews

• A Simple Machine (2025) - 19:35
• Disposable Humanity (2025) - 45:56

• Closing the Ep - 1:51:19
• Patreon Clip - 1:56:42

Related Links

• A Simple Machine (2025)
• A Simple Machine - Website
• A Simple Machine - Instagram
• Video Version of My A Simple Machine Interview

• Disposable Humanity (2025)
• Disposable Humanity - Website
• Disposable Humanity - Instagram
• Video Version of My Disposable Humanity Interview

• The Tenderness Tour Documentary at HIFF34
• Heartland Film Festival
• The Tenderness Tour Film Facebook Page
• The Tenderness Tour Merch
• The Tenderness Tour Website
• The Tenderness Tour Campaign on Undue Medical Debt

• My 2025 Podcast and Writing Archive
• My Film Festival Coverage on Patreon
• Immediate Reaction - HIFF34: A Simple Machine (2025) - Oct 16, 2025
• Immediate Reaction - HIFF34: Winter Fantasy (2025) - Oct 15, 2025
• Immediate Reaction - HIFF34: The Tenderness Tour (2025) - Oct 13, 2025
• Immediate Reaction - HIFF34: Is This Thing On? (2025) - Oct 12, 2025
• Immediate Reaction - HIFF34: Rental Family (2025) - Oct 9, 2025
• Book Reaction - The Long Walk by Stephen King - Chapters 1-2 - Sept 18, 2025
• Patreon Special - Yojimbo (1961) at the Kan-Kan - Aug 27, 2025

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