Episode 103 - Actor Cheryl Shelton - THE CANDY LADY (2023 Louisiana Film Prize)

The Viewfinder Podcast with Chris Hadley

Continuing the review of the 2023 Louisiana Film Prize, I'm honored to bring you my chat with this year’s winner of the event’s Best Performance award: actor Cheryl Shelton, the star of writer/director Monique Derouselle's grand prize-winning short THE CANDY LADY. In that film, Cheryl plays the titular candy lady - here named Debra. When she's not serving sweets and treats to her neighbors from her home-based shop, Debra is an imaginative yet creatively stumped author who - thanks to her enormously powerful typewriter - unexpectedly sees her page-bound characters go from words on crumpled-up paper to flesh-and-blood realities in her very own home with zany results. Music by Audionautix.com