Special Report: Lemonade Blessing (2026)

Podcast: The Projection Booth · Weirding Way Media

Opublikowano: 2026-10-16

Mike talks with writer-director Chris Merola about his debut feature Lemonade Blessing (2025), a coming-of-age dramedy about a Catholic-school transfer student who falls for a girl who dares him into escalating sacrilege, all in the name of love. Merola wrote the script as a USC film student mining his own adolescence — a Catholic mother, a fake-named first crush, the general sense of being “unmoored” — and financed it himself, funneling 1,000% stock-market gains from a well-timed Tesla bet into New Jersey’s tax-credit system before approaching outside investors. He shot the film with a crew of first-timers (his editor, his production designer...