Indie Beat Chats With 'A Feast of Man' Director Caroline Golum [Podcast]

Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for the next episode of Indie Beat!

This chapter’s guest is filmmaker, programmer, and essayist Caroline Golum.

Golum began her movie mania in a place where it is practically inescapable — the San Fernando Valley. She ghosted the West Coast for college, though, attending the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She made some short films and attended a healthy number of repertory film screenings before tackling her first feature, the darkly funny “A Feast of Man.”

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Co-written with writer/director Dylan Pasture (“Cloudy All Day”), ‘Feast’ is a campy, quick-witted screwball comedy following a group of friends that are set to inherit their deceased buddy’s money…if they all agree to dine upon his corpse.

Obviously the film looks at the grim with a grin, and the cast (including a fun cameo by Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman) is more than up to the task for the spirited back and forth Golum and Pasture envisioned. And while you’re not likely to find too many micro-budget films with this kind of tone, you also won’t find many that look like it — it’s supremely handsome and elegantly crafted, from the art/production design to the cinematography. It’s a very assured debut from Golum by all accounts.

Check out the trailer below and, if you’re in the Alabama area, the film will screen as part of the Sidewalk Film Festival on Saturday, August 26th. Click here for details.

Do check out our conversation with Golum, too. In addition to ‘Feast’, we also discussed movies that have influenced her, submitting work-in-progress cuts, and finding friends through cinema.