Interview with Darren Stein, Director of G.B.F.

You have no idea how excited I am about today's interview! Thanks to Egmont UK and Peccadillo Pictures, who are working together to promote YA novel Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan and teen comedy G.B.F., I was offered the amazing opportunity to interview Director Darren Stein, and watch an advanced DVD of G.B.F. So awesome! I cannot tell you how chuffed I am to have been able to interview Darren!

Two Boys Kissing is about two teen guys trying to break the world record for the longest kiss to bring attention to gay rights. G.B.F. is about three Queen Bees fighting over Tanner when he's accidentally outed by his best friend, as having a Gay Best Friend is the new "thing".

I can't tell you just how funny G.B.F. is, and so important! It's absolutely incredible! Watch the trailer, then read on for the interview!


Hi Darren! Thank you so much for the opportunity to interview you about your latest teen movie,G.B.F. G.B.F. is a standout movie; hilarious, but also current and very relevant. I loved it!

Can you tell us a little about your history as a director?

I’ve been making films since I was a kid. I remember when my Dad brought home his first camcorder in 1981 or so. I was 10 and I couldn’t wait to start making films. My father ran a motion picture film lab that his parents started as a camera shop in the 60s. Cinema became my form of story-telling because I was so familiar with it as the family business.

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All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill Book Trailer - Interview with Director Casey Davoren

Our UK bloggers are quite a talented lot. You may know quite a few bloggers who are also aspiring writers, but there are other skills are putting to use in an effort to get people hearing about books. Like creating book trailers, and starring in them.

The lovely - and super talented - Casey Davoren of Dark Readers and Hannah Mariska of My Book Journey have their own fan-made book trailers production team, The Bitter Productions. So talented is Casey, she was contacted by Bloomsbury Children's Books to create the official UK trailer for All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill, with the help - and acting talents - of Hannah. Both ladies have agreed to talk to us about how that came about and their experience. First up is Casey.

How did you get into creating book trailers? How long have you been making them?

I started making book trailers maybe two years ago. I was making random videos for awhile on my YouTube channel but its mostly book trailers now. When I attended college and studied film my passion just grew. I wanted a big production company one day were we help promote children to read in any forms of video. Technology is only getting bigger. I am working on it.

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