One of my favorite films that played at this year's Overlook Film Festival was Good Boy, a haunted house movie shot from the point of view of Indy, the home owner's dog. This was one of the most buzzed about films at the fest and, ahead of the Overlook screening, I had a chance to catch up with Ben Leonberg and Alex Cannon (Co-Writer), discussing the challenges of making the film, Indy's favorite treat, the festival experience, and more:

Have you always been a “dog person”? Did you grow up with dogs?

Ben Leonberg: Yeah, I grew up with dogs. Not training dogs, specifically, but we’d do things like fetch and obedience. So I had a little bit of a background when it came to: How do you get a performance out of a dog?

We have schnauzers, and they do not listen to us well enough that we could make a short film,...