PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Kire Paputts, director of the film The Last Porno Show.
Kire Paputts tells Angelo Acerbi all the work behind his first feature and the reasons too tell such a story, mixing family memories, father figures and porn films. A deep and heartfelt film, to be watched. Being the writer, producer and director of it, Paputts had to go through many dramas and problems in the making, as most of independent filmmakers had.
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