Iowa-California filmmaker Nik Heftman of “The Seven Times Produced by Nik Heftman” on Substack joins The Iowa Mercury for a full and robust Memorial Day Weekend conversation sweeping across a number of topics.
We discuss:
— The meaning of Memorial Day to both of our veteran-filled families.
— Our takes on actor Jonathan Majors’ movie “Magazine Dreams.”
— Doug’s column on the potential and history of discussion on a 4-year Western Iowa University.
— What Nik and Doug are streaming on the platforms.
— Restaurants and go-to food in Iowa.
— CelebrAsian in Des Moines over the weekend.
— The advent of E sports in colleges.
— Iowa politics.
— Details and developments on Nik’s film “The Negro Artist,” which has been selected for several film festivals around the nation. More Iowa showings are scheduled on the near horizon.
Heftman is the director of the documentary, “The Negro Artist,” chronicling the life of prominent spoken-word artist Caleb Rainey.
About The Iowa Mercury
(Douglas Burns, founder of The Iowa Mercury and a fourth-generation Iowa journalist from Carroll, is a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative. Read dozens of the most talented writers in Iowa in just one place. The Iowa Writers' Collaborative spans the full state. It’s one of the biggest things going in Iowa journalism and writing now — and you don’t want to miss. This collaborative is — as the outstanding Quad Cities journalist Ed Tibbetts says — YOUR SUNDAY IOWA newspaper. )
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