BEHIND THE LENS #525: Featuring Michael Glover Smith and Douglas Bremner

BEHIND THE LENS #525: Featuring Michael Glover Smith and Douglas Bremner

From Behind The Lens by debbie lynn elias

June 22, 2026 · 1h 43m

About this episode

This episode features discussions with filmmakers Michael Glover Smith and Douglas Bremner about their films showcased at Dances With Films festival.

It's another week of BEHIND THE LENS shining a spotlight on DANCES WITH FILMS and a couple of the wonderful films and filmmakers in this year's festival, namely HEKLA and w/d MICHAEL GLOVER SMITH and THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG and w/d DOUGLAS BREMNER. First up – MICHAEL GLOVER SMITH and HEKLA! HEKLA is a comedy/drama about the emotional cost of pursuing a creative life. Set over one hectic day in Chicago, it explores how ambition, identity, and vulnerability collide when you're chasing something as personal – and uncertain – as an acting career. Hekla Gudmunsdottir (Elizabeth Stam), a determined actress, races through auditions, breakups, and self-doubt, risking her heart and career to claim her voice and step fully into the artist and woman she's meant to be: Hekla goes on four auditions, gets new headshots, and plays Lady Macbeth in a dive bar, all while attempting to keep intrusive thoughts of a recently ended relationship at bay. Beneath the humor and dramatic momentum lies a story about the importance of showing up for yourself, even when the world isn't clapping for you yet. Shifting gears, and I do mean shifting, we move into a medical…

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Host: Debbie Lynn Elias

Guests: Michael Glover Smith, Douglas Bremner

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Organizations: DANCES WITH FILMS

Books & works: HEKLA, THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGG

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