Filmmaking shop talk with the doors open.
In Love with the Process Podcast is a filmmaker’s hangout built around interviews, production stories, and long, high-energy detours. Mike Pecci moves from camera gear and editing rigs to awards talk, movie props, VFX, music independence, London trips, and the strange emotional pull of cinema.
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In Love with the Process Podcast is a film-and-creative-work show with a working filmmaker’s fingerprints all over it. Mike Pecci hosts with restless energy, treating each episode as part interview, part production diary, part movie-fan pressure release. The show rarely walks straight to the topic. It may start with a computer that survived weeks of storyboarding, a camera used on Right Place, Right Time, a London trip, a Code Electro cue, or a joke about awards needing its own workaround music. Then it finds the subject. That route tells listeners a lot about the show. Process matters here because life keeps interrupting process. Episodes move through movie props, production design, wardrobe, VFX, film projection, digital sensors, independent music, photo shoots, awards campaigns, and the mythology people build around the films they love. The interviews are craft-forward but never sterile. A guest can talk about exposure, grain, dynamic range, or building an audience without a label, and the conversation still keeps the looseness of people trading stories after hours. Pecci’s solo episodes have a similar charge. They turn awards speculation, travel, and production workload into a running account of what it feels like to keep making things. The show has a deep affection for gear, but it is not just a gear show. Cameras and computers are treated as tools that change how artists see, cut, travel, and survive a workload. It is also openly sentimental about movie culture. Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana Jones, The Mummy, Doctor Who, Power Rangers, Wicked, and celluloid all sit in the same unruly room. The charm comes from that range. In Love with the Process Podcast is messy, funny, opinionated, and intensely practical about creativity. It suits listeners who like the magic of film best when someone is also explaining the bruises, tools, and lucky timing behind it.
Made for: Built for film obsessives, working creatives, indie musicians, photographers, VFX people, and anyone drawn to the practical chaos behind finished art. It especially suits listeners who enjoy craft detail with jokes, detours, and strong taste.
What sets it apart: The show’s signature is its lived-in looseness: sponsor reads, travel stories, production updates, and rants sit beside serious conversations about film craft and creative survival. It feels closer to a filmmaker’s workbench than a formal interview program.
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Mike connects screen criticism to the practical decisions behind cameras, performances, visual language, and getting films made.
Mike treats filmmaking as a working practice, moving easily from what appears on screen to the choices and constraints behind it. In Love with the Process Podcast mixes guest conversations and solo episodes, with close attention to cameras, film projection, storyboarding,…
Blade Runner with subtitles turns a remembered romance into a scene you'll want to argue about.
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A loose movie-and-bar conversation that starts with goth Power Rangers and ends on a city-hopping bar safari.
This episode opens with a joke about the intro song sounding like the Power Rangers going goth, then slides into Rob Zombie, Tim Burton, clay monsters, and the appeal of a monster creator who looks like he has a hobby.
Film and digital are weighed through cameras, exposure, and the stubborn appeal of a projected print.
The episode opens on sponsor chatter and a brief London note before settling into a sharp comparison of film and digital. From there, the conversation stays close to the mechanics of making images, touching on the Sony Venice 2, the Alexa 35, exposure, grain, density, and the…
Road talk and Blade Runner keep the movie game moving between packing misery and scene talk.
Lance gives Last Film Standing a loose, road-weary hang, and the episode finds its shape in travel more than in any tidy premise. The opening stretch stays on the touring grind, moving from Toronto and Jersey to Chicago, Denver, and the pull of Dallas, with cold weather, checked…
A process-heavy film chat that keeps returning to how images do the work.
The episode spends most of its time on practical film craft, moving from macro extension tubes and still photography to coverage and the visual language of blocking.
A solo filmmaking-process episode finds its spark in candid interview talk and an enthusiastic appreciation of performance.
A solo installment of In Love With The Process becomes a compact reflection on craft, curiosity, and the useful freedom of not over-preparing.
A loose, charged Gladiator 2 screening conversation that connects Denzel Washington, Scott Free, and the long push behind 12KM.
Mike and Lance use an advanced screening of Gladiator 2 with Ridley Scott as the spark for a loose, animated episode about Los Angeles, proximity to the work, and the strange charge of feeling close to the kind of films they want to make.
Multi-part dramatized retellings of scandals like OceanGate's Titan and the Lehman Brothers collapse.
Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael, and Jason Mantzoukas argue their way through terrible movies.
Mike and Gina discuss the elaborate surprise birthday bar safari organized by Gina, involving a fake party to throw Mike off the scent before the real celebration with friends.
The hosts discuss the phenomenon of feeling an immediate deep connection with someone, using a personal story about a cold water swimming experience as a humorous analogy.
Film director Mike Pecci and co-host Lance recount attending a private friends and family screening of Gladiator 2 with director Ridley Scott at Paramount Studios.
Film director Mike Pecci hosts a solo episode discussing his newly completed experimental short film 'Metanoia', starring David Dastmalchian.
On day one of pre-production for They Like the Dark, director Mike reports that storyboards are finished after about five months, and that the crew will treat them as the shooting reference, as on Fury Road.
This episode features an interview with artist Mu Pan, exploring his creative process and artistic world, while acknowledging sponsors Fujifilm and Puget Systems.
This episode explores how the band ROMES achieved 1.5 million streams independently without a record label, focusing on their strategies and journey in the music industry.
This episode explores the world of movie prop collecting through an interview with Chuck Costas about Propstore auctions and the significance of film memorabilia.
This episode is a Thursday catch-up discussing the song 'Clean' by Code Electro, its inspiration from the TV show Doctor Who, and connecting it to a previous episode.
This episode discusses the host's trip to London, featuring guest Mike Pecci, with mentions of samurai armor, photography using Fuji film cameras, and computer systems from Puget Systems.
This episode discusses the excitement and traditions around the Oscars, including red carpet events and predictions, with host Mike Pecci.
Mike and Emily open by introducing themselves and the show.
The guest joins the host.
Mike Petsche says the video version of Right Place, Right Time takes two to three days to cut, while the audio version takes about an hour and change.
Lance opens with Last Film Standing.
It opens on Fujifilm and Puget Systems.
The hosts discuss their experience moving to Los Angeles and getting the opportunity to watch Gladiator 2 with director Ridley Scott, while sharing their journey pitching their project 12KM to his production company.
Two best friends launch their podcast 'Right Place, Right Time' with excitement about their custom intro, theme song, and creative process.