We had the good fortune of connecting with Dos Goats Films Kerry Carlock & Nick Lund-Ulrich and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dos Goats Films, what is the most important factor behind your success?

KERRY: The cool thing about Dos Goats is that our films are a true combination of our tastes and obsessions and its that combo that makes for our distinctive genre mashups.

NICK: The stories we have worked on together are really a synthesis of our sensibilities and our work has become 100 times better just because of that!

KERRY: So success for us comes down to collaboration, balancing our perspectives to come up with totally original ideas.

Can you open up a bit about your work and career? We’re big fans and we’d love for our community to learn more about your work.
NICK: My background is in visual effects and I’ve been doing that for a very long time. Post production is really one of the only departments that is or- should be!- around from the very beginning of the film to the absolute very end. So I’ve really seen the entire filmmaking process. But I wanted more.

KERRY: I was coming up as a producer/showrunner in the unscripted world when we met. We were both very successful in our niches but we also both wanted to be making our own films. It wasn’t long after our second date that we started having ideas about stories we wanted to tell together.

NICK: But, as you know, this business isn’t easy. And collaborating with someone you care about can be challenging. But it’s also totally exhilarating to share a common goal and achieve things together. It really takes a lot of willpower and drive so have to have your partner with you to carry you through the hard days is amazing.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
KERRY: When we have friends in town we have a very specific strategy. We like to keep it outside, keep it local and then end the trip with a bang.

NICK: Yeah, we like to do things in our neighborhood- Castle Heights- we don’t get on the freeway and just keep everything on foot if we can.

KERRY: In the morning we go around the corner to UnderGrind for coffee and the yummiest breakfast. Then we love Helms Bakery for window shopping and either lunch at Father’s Office or Pasta Sisters.

NICK: The Culver Stairs at Culver City Park are a great place to go for a quick hike inside in the middle of Los Angeles and get some great views. We also love to take the Ballona Creek Bike Path from Syd Kronenthal Park all the way down the beach.

KERRY: Sunday morning we like to hit the Village Well book shop and get some coffee at Super Domestic. Downtown Culver is super chill with lots of affordable options.

NICK: Then the piece de resistance is ending the weekend with super high-end dinner somewhere swanky downtown. Our favorite is Bar Sawa.

KERRY: Its the most incredible sushi with the greatest service and you share the bar with the most interesting people.

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
KERRY: I saw a quote from Issa Rae, I think, about how a lot of young filmmakers want to set their sights on working with Steven Spielberg or Disney- big pie in the sky stuff- and her recommendations was to find a group of your peers that you wanna work with and come up together. That really spoke to me. Its about having a community that supports each other and makes the whole process happier and more successful!

NICK: Our shout-out would be to all the folks that have worked with us on our our movies. Filmmaking is not a singular thing it is it is a group project and every step of the way we couldn’t have done it without them,

KERRY: So on our first film, “Armstrong,” it started with collaborating on the script with Nick Rufca, then meeting Doug Bilitch and Paul Rocha, who really held our hand on all of the logistics and budgeting. Then our cinematographer Amanda Treyz, who became our true partner in creating the vision of the film and Shannon Baker Davis, who edited the film.

NICK: On our current feature, “Suffer,” we had a very small group of collaborators- just six people shot the majority of this film. Naomi MacDougall Jones, April Frame, Jennifer Sorenson, Alex Flannery joined us in Idaho for the original shoot and it was a crazy, joyous time to make this movie in the middle of nowhere during a pandemic and without them it never would have happened. All of these people have become very important to us, and that investment makes working a real pleasure.

Website: https://www.dosgoats.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dosgoatsfilms/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dosgoatsfilms

Other: https://vimeo.com/dosgoats/videos

Image Credits
Deidhra Fahey

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