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What’s your relationship with Columbus?
Dixon: I grew up in Springfield, Ohio, and then I met Ori. We went to school together at Denison University, which is a small liberal arts school that’s outside of Columbus. We met at school and studied film together and just worked on projects there. After we graduated, we moved to Columbus because it was the closest city, and we just wanted to continue making films together. So, we started a production company. We’re still here.
Do you foresee telling more Columbus stories?
Dixon: We definitely have a solid crew here. The artists that we’ve worked with and the crew and the film people that we made this film with, we really like. We do work all around and we’re open to do projects anywhere, but we definitely have our roots here.
Segev: It’s such a good place to have our homebase. It’s affordable. We can make a movie like this. Besides the subject matter, we could have never made this movie in a big city. It just wouldn’t have worked, getting the locations, being able to shoot at all our favorite venues…
What are little details that are very specific to Columbus that anyone from the city will recognize?
Segev: I think a lot of that comes through in little things in the VO where she says “Old North.” If you’re from Columbus, you know exactly where that is, but it also could sound like a place in any city. I think the overall vibe of being in a Midwest city, there’s a lot of really creative people and there’s opportunity here for them to have a warehouse or do these things that you couldn’t do in a big city. I think that this film highlights a lot of those things that if you’re from here, you’ve probably gone to that party at that warehouse. Most Midwest cities have something like that.
Is that a similar creative community as depicted in the movie?
Segev: Oh, totally. Those are all our friends.
Dixon: We made the movie with, like Ori said, just real bands and our friends, but I think because it is a smaller scene, there’s more crossover between genres too. If you’re in New York or L.A., or these bigger cities, there’s a punk scene and those are all the punk bands, but because Columbus is smaller, you see a lot of different types of musicians collaborating and you’ll go to a show and see a bunch of different types of musicians. I think because of that, it’s definitely a smaller scene that everybody knows each other in some way or knows people in the same circles.
Are there a lot of filmmakers there, too?
Dixon: It’s definitely small. The people that we know and are incredibly talented, we couldn’t have done [it] without all the people we worked with.
What were some of the venues you shot?
Segev: We shot at this one place called Cafe Bourbon Street, which is a great little local bar and venue. We shot a couple scenes there. We had a house that we turned into the party house for the film, a house that I had rented, but I wasn’t living in it. We shot at this restaurant called Commune. That’s fantastic.
Dixon: Our experience being in the music scene here in Columbus is just going to a lot of house shows or warehouse shows. So, a lot of the warehouse concerts that are in the film were inspired by this real art space called MINT Gallery that used to be a thing in Columbus, but got shut down.
After we graduated school, that’s where we just went to see a lot of shows, went to a lot of parties. There’s just a lot of interesting art, music, so the warehouse stuff was inspired by that. There’s a cool warehouse here in Columbus called Fortner that has artist space and shows. All of it’s in Columbus and most people watching the film from Columbus would recognize a lot of these spots.
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