00:00We are talking to one of the truly great documentary directors that I know, and he is Billy Corbin here.
00:07Billy, which one of your children is your favorite when it comes to your movies?
00:12I mean, can you pick one of your favorite children here?
00:15Cocaine Cowboy, Limelight, Screwball, the U1 and 2?
00:19Can you do that, or are they all your children?
00:23Well, yeah, I mean, docs are like children.
00:25You have your favorite.
00:27You just don't tell anybody which one it is.
00:31Yeah, but no, I mean, I talk a lot about it, and it's one of those things that like changes,
00:37right?
00:37Like year to year, depending on your mood, like it's a very subjective thing.
00:41It also doesn't matter what I think.
00:43It only matters what the audience thinks, but I guess I'm entitled to my opinion.
00:47You know, I'm partial to certainly to Cocaine Cowboys.
00:51I'm partial to some of the deep cuts, too, you know, like the stuff that maybe like Screwball is one
00:57of my favorites,
00:57I think just because it was so interesting for me to make and so challenging for me to make.
01:02So that was just a fun experience, you know, working with the eight, nine, ten-year-old kids and the
01:07reenactments,
01:08playing cops and A-Rod and doctors and con men.
01:12And it was, you know, that was just like a fun production experience.
01:16I love dogfight because I spent so many years working on that backyard bare-knuckle brawl story about like the
01:23kind of cottage,
01:24the underground cottage industry that Kimbo Slice inspired in Southwest Miami-Dade and backyard fights.
01:31So Magic City Hustle, there's a great doc that very few people saw.
01:35It's like the bad news bears in Hi-Li, like a bunch of your former teammates and Miami Hurricanes football
01:42players,
01:43some of whom went pro and then retired, some of whom never got a chance to go pro.
01:47They get an opportunity to become professional athletes, but Hi-Li players at Magic City Casino,
01:54because there are some very like, you know, high roller donors to the university,
01:58whose name is on the athletic department, no less, basically say like,
02:02hey, we need to keep Hi-Li alive in order to keep our casino license,
02:06so we want to give some job opportunities to Hurricanes alum and come and play.
02:12The whole thing was like this fascinating, hilarious experience.
02:16You know, Baraka Short, rest in peace, you know, was in it.
02:20And a lot of, you know, Nate the Great.
02:23I mean, a lot of funny former Hurricanes characters with a SESTA on their arm throwing a pelota around.
02:30I mean, the whole thing was ridiculous and inspiring.
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