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James Cullen Bressack wanted a movie in Fantastic Fest at eighteen. It took fifteen years. He is back in Austin with I Have Proof, a 77-minute VHS horror he wrote and directed, and the first horror title he has brought to the festival.

AMFM Magazine’s Paul Salfen talks with Bressack, lead and director of photography Larsen Deane, Lilly Van der Meer, and B.J. Hendricks about going back to a crew of five and a camcorder after movies with Mel Gibson, Bruce Willis, and Jean-Claude Van Damme. They get into the scene that only counted once two people threw up, a Mother’s Day cover story told in latex gloves, and why the advice for the next Fantastic Fest surprise is simple: believe in the story, say yes, and be kind to the people you work with.

Alex has proof. He needs you to see it. I Have Proof is a psychological descent where reality is never quite what it seems.

World premiere: Fantastic Fest, September 21, 2026, 5 p.m. CT, Austin
Written and directed by James Cullen Bressack

Starring Larsen Deane, Lilly Van der Meer, Augie Duke, B.J. Hendricks, Kelly Lynn Reiter, and David Josh Lawrence
Director of photography: Larsen Deane
Production companies: Sandaled Kid / JCB Pictures / Robotic Donut
Genre: Horror | Runtime: 77 minutes | Not yet rated
Distribution: not yet announced

Instagram: @jamescullenb · @grand_larseney · @lillyvandermeer
Interview by Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine, The Voice of the Artist.
Read the feature at AMFMMagazine.com
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At 45, the last thing she expected was expecting.

AMFM Magazine Managing Editor Paul Salfen sits down with writer, director, and producer Beth Caulfield for an exclusive conversation about CONCEIVABLE, the faith-forward drama inspired by her own true story. A respected minister, wife, and mother of two nearly grown kids sees her next chapter upended by an unplanned pregnancy — and has to decide what faith, responsibility, and courage look like when the plan falls apart.

CONCEIVABLE opens in select theaters October 16, 2026, from Hawk Hill Pictures.

Caulfield did not set out to make a documentary. She set out to tell the story with the warts left on — and to start the conversations people are usually afraid to have. In this interview she talks about the moment she thought she would wake up, the forgotten dream of writing movies, stepping out of the pulpit to finance the film, working with co-director and star Jana Lee Hamblin, and the verse that keeps her pointed at an audience of one.

Starring Jana Lee Hamblin (The West Wing), Eddie McClintock, Dean Cain, Daniel Roebuck, Wendy Griffith, Camille Joy, and Preston Howell. Directed by Beth Caulfield and Jana Lee Hamblin. Written and produced by Beth Caulfield. A People Throw Rocks At Things That Shine production.

Official selection, 2024 Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival. 2025 Tokyo Women Film Festival semifinalist. 2023 OASIS Award for Best Screenplay.

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Interview by Paul Salfen
Chapters
0:00 Hello from Beth and Paul
0:19 Did this really happen?
0:41 Why it isn’t a documentary
1:34 Pregnant at 45 — the shock
2:31 “Seek God. He’ll make your path straight.”
3:34 A long line of storytellers
4:54 The movie dream she forgot
5:22 Advice if you have a story in you
6:37 Every creative voice on a film set
7:07 Napoleon Dynamite and underrated art
8:01 The Hail Mary: leaving the pulpit
9:18 Audience of one
10:39 Jana Lee Hamblin and the Meisner standard
11:27 What she hopes you take from the film
13:04 Is there another movie?
13:27 “No greater pulpit than the entertainment world”
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Ben Masters on Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers, Ethan Hawke & His Hail Mary


Ben Masters sat in the back of a packed house with a full orchestra and called it peak living. Then he told Paul Salfen what he wants Texas to do with its rivers.

AMFM Magazine Managing Editor Paul Salfen talks with the Fin & Fur Films director about Deep in the Heart 2: Texas Rivers, the tighter water-policy sequel to his 2022 hit Deep in the Heart. Native Texan Ethan Hawke narrates this one. Matthew McConaughey narrated the first. Masters walks through Kickstarter beginnings, the Unbranded Mexico-to-Canada ride that became his Hail Mary, the mountain-lion policy the first film helped move, and the question this sequel puts to the audience: how do we want to manage the rivers that make this place possible?

“We could do this for the rest of our lives, and it would be a good thing to do for Texas.” — Ben Masters

In Texas theaters now (opened September 25, 2026).

Streaming October 27 on Apple TV and Prime Video.

Official site: https://deepintheheartwildlife.com/
A Fin & Fur Films production with HEB, Texan by Nature, and the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation. Produced by Josh Winkler. Edited by Sam Klatt. Score by Noah Sorota, performed by the Dallas Chamber Symphony.
00:00 Peak living: the orchestra premiere

01:28 Ethan Hawke after McConaughey

03:08 Why Part 2 is a tighter story

03:48 HEB, Texan by Nature, and the partners

04:26 His father, the eye, and teamwork films

06:53 Kickstarter and the first movie

07:12 Unbranded and hundreds of horses adopted

08:23 What Deep in the Heart changed in Texas

09:26 Water policy and an insecure water future

11:00 Advice: start with a short you already know

12:13 The Hail Mary: 16 wild horses, Mexico to Canada

13:17 The coolest job in the world

14:25 Where to watch — theaters, Apple TV, Prime

15:02 Already thinking about Deep in the Heart 3
Interview by Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine, The Voice of the Artist.

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Adam Egypt Mortimer sits down with AMFM Magazine Managing Editor Paul Salfen after the Fantastic Fest 2026 world premiere of Pathetic Fallacy — a 35mm psychedelic horror-musical about love, death, and the price of bringing someone back.

Mortimer calls it a dark, romantic, psychedelic musical odyssey. Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi stars as Asher opposite Jessica Rothe as Iris. Natasha Lyonne voices a Faustian spider. Johnny Jewel scores it. People get axed up. The romance, Mortimer says, was the part that actually mattered.

In this exclusive AMFM conversation he talks Nicolas Roeg and rock-star souls (Bowie, Jagger, Garfunkel), why Kid Cudi wanted to put his feelings into horror, the extra pressure of a fourth feature after Blue Velvet, and the five-year Hail Mary it takes to stand in a room when the movie has finally gotten made.

His advice to new filmmakers: be as insane as this. We don’t want boring shit. We want sick shit.
Pathetic Fallacy (2026)
Directed by Adam Egypt Mortimer
Written by Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari
Starring Scott Mescudi, Jessica Rothe, Travis Fimmel, Natasha Lyonne
Score and music by Johnny Jewel · Original songs performed by the leads · Shot on 35mm
World premiere: Fantastic Fest 2026 · West Coast premiere: Beyond Fest
Interview by Paul Salfen for AMFM Magazine
The Voice of the Artist
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Chapters
0:00 “A psychedelic musical odyssey”
0:39 Romance, axes, melting reality
1:06 Rock stars on film — Roeg, Bowie, Jagger
1:48 Kid Cudi loves horror
2:05 Fourth movie, Blue Velvet pressure
3:03 “We want sick shit”
3:27 The five-year Hail Mary
3:46 A date-night movie you have to talk about
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Paul Salfen is the author of Going For It!, a collection of Hail Mary moments from the artists and athletes he has spent two decades putting on the record.
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Full written feature at AMFMMagazine.tv.

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Animal coordinator Andrew Simpson has the job other people invent at ten. Then David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast showed up with Brad Pitt, a combat German Shepherd named Odin, and New Zealand standing in for Alaska.
In this AMFM exclusive, Managing Editor Paul Salfen talks to Simpson about the surreal set days, why listening is the rare half of animal work, the Hail Mary that sent 13 wolves to Siberia at minus 60, and why he is not sure a real animal will still have a place in cinema five years from now.
Heart of the Beast — in theaters now from Paramount Pictures.

Brad Pitt is James Belmont. Odin is played by Uber and his sons. David Ayer directs. Cameron Alexander wrote the script.
“No animals were harmed. It’s make-believe. If we do our job correctly, that’s the illusion — danger around every single corner.”
Watch the conversation. Then go see the movie.
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Interview by Paul Salfen
Tickets / official site: https://www.heartofthebeastmovie.com

Simpson / Instinct Animals for Film: https://instinctforfilm.com

AMFM: https://AMFMMagazine.com
#HeartOfTheBeast #BradPitt #AndrewSimpson #DavidAyer #AMFMMagazine #PaulSalfen
Chapters

0:00 Live with Andrew Simpson

0:16 “I wouldn’t trade it for anything”

0:33 A once-in-a-lifetime script

1:11 Holy crap, there’s Brad Pitt

1:45 Working with a cinematic icon

2:06 “Not many people listen”

2:24 Get in quick — AI is coming

3:05 No animals were harmed

3:42 Hail Mary: 13 wolves in Siberia

4:34 “It’s just a movie”

4:51 Karma is real

5:08 Close
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