Sweetback (SB): A CERTAIN KIND OF MONSTER is deathly serious – no pun intended. Considering that many of your earlier short films take a more comedic bent (link to funnyordie page), was this a conscious decision to branch out into different territory?   Mike Moring (MM): I don’t really think there was a conscious decision to make something that was a “departure” or anything like that, no. I think my ongoing approach to filmmaking has always been to actively explore all different types of stories and genres. I enjoy challenging myself, and part of that is trying to tell
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