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Dan Mirvish

Dan Mirvish

American filmmaker and author

Sep 11, 2026

5:32
Orgasmo?
5:33
No, it was before that.
5:34
It was Cannibal the Musical.
5:36
It was their project at the University of Colorado, which is a great film, by the way.
5:40
And eventually Troma picked it up for distribution.
5:43
But anyway, so we'd heard about these guys and another friend of ours, Matt Harrison, had taken a bunch of short films there a couple of years earlier from New York and done similar kind of things.
5:52
So there was a little bit of a precedent for that.

12 MINS LATER

17:40
What do you see?
6:02
Orgasmo? No,
6:03
it was before that.
6:05
It was Cannibal the Musical.
6:06
It was their project at the University of Colorado, which is a great film, by the way.
6:10
And eventually Troma picked it up for distribution.
6:13
But anyway, so we'd heard about these guys.
6:16
And another friend of ours, Matt Harrison, had taken a bunch of short films there a couple of years earlier from New York and done similar kind of things.

12 MINS LATER

18:08
Evolution of indie world just in general, what do you see?
3:25
Oh
3:25
... um, and had done research on an article as an intern, um, that was on privatization of the postal service.
3:33
It was all about, like, all these weird rivalries between the letter carriers union and the postal clerks union and how they all hate each other and, and that sort of thing.
3:41
That winds up being a big part of the script.
3:43
And I'd also, in...
3:44
When I was in school in St. Louis, there was a, um, a postal training ground in the middle of the city that was this bizarre, you know, f- it looks like a fake western town, but where the letter carriers would, would practice.

45 MINS LATER

49:13
Oh.
49:15
Dan, I'm so sorry.
4:35
There's no LinkedIn.
4:37
No, I know.
4:38
And that was actually part of the reason we did meet up.
4:42
So at the time, and you guys may remember, there was this thing called the Independent Feature Film Market, which is run by Independent Feature Project in New York.
4:52
There is still an iteration of it now called Gotham Week, as in the Gotham Awards.
4:59
Um, but now it's more for works in progress.
5:01
But at the time, this thing, the independent feature film market, uh, which would happen in around September or August, September every year in New York, it was, it was mainly for finished films.

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44:58
What

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