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Send us Fan Mail If you listened in to our last episode with Dante Basco, you heard us mention his sister, Arianna Basco . She's one of the co-writers of the film The Fabulous Filipino Brothers and in our humble opinion, takes the movie to the next level. Arianna is a spoken word artist, musician, author, producer, and is the founder of the Palms Up Academy .  When she's not hustlin&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Bay Area, REP-RE-SENT! We're so excited to bring you our chat with the writer/director/star of The Fabulous Filipino Brothers , Dante Basco . We get into his process of writing the film, starring alongside  his real life family, and what it feels like to bring his film back home to the Bay. We discuss our shared love for Hip Hop activist Ruby Ibarra , and he gives us some ins...

Send us Fan Mail We're so excited to be a part of CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) Fest 2021 !  Every year they compile the best in Asian and Asian American stories, and this year they've really outdone themselves. We get into our historic past with CAAMFest (including the one time Captain Party had to wear makeup), and all the great people we've met along the way. We also pee...

Send us Fan Mail In 2014 comedian Jessica Watkins walked across America as a shtick to get noticed. (You have to have a shtick as a comedian to get a Netflix special, duh.) What Jessica didn't know was that heading out on her own to walk across the U.S. , meeting strangers and relying on gut would completely change her life.  We spoke with Jessica about her comedy, her legendary mom, dumb DJ...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday!  This week we're taking you back to Sundance 2020 with our Honorary Bitch John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com , when we sat down with writer/director Danny Madden and stars Shirley Chen and Will Madden of the film Beast Beast . This is a coming of age story that follows three high school kids in the age of technology and social media. There are sur...

Send us Fan Mail It was an absolute joy talking with filmmaker/writer Alanna Brown about her independent film Trees of Peace that just debuted in April at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. Alanna spent 10 years writing, developing, raising funds, then finally shooting this indie movie about the 1994 Rwandan genocide.  Alanna is also one of the writers of the upcoming Blindspotting tv series coming...

Send us Fan Mail We had to come back with another Basic Bitch episode because there's just too much going on. From the new QAnon documentary (not ideal for watching right before bed) to vaccine side effects (spoiler alert: it's not that bad). We mourn the loss of too many greats that recently passed, and have a surprising new suggestion for when to watch Moonstruck - one of the best film...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). This week we're celebrating Coded Bias , an important documentary that we covered for Sundance 2020 which is available right now on Netflix! Thanks to the work of MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini , we have further...

Send us Fan Mail Hey ya'll! It's been a while since our last basic bitch, so we're bringing you all the behind the scenes antics from our coverage of the SFFilm Festival (ie: watching the wrong film and not realizing it until a minute before the interview), and our thoughts on the Independent Spirit Awards (go, Melissa Villasenor!), and Oscars (really should've ended after Regi...

Send us Fan Mail Writing With Fire is a documentary that follows three journalists from Khabar Lahariya , India's only newspaper run entirely by Dalit women. We chat with directors Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Gosh about how they chose the film's main subjects, the difficulties and often dangers of following them as they cover the stories that no one else is telling, and what they've le...

Send us Fan Mail Seyran Ates is a bisexual human rights activist, lawyer, and female imam who is fighting the patriarchy and changing the face of Islam toward a more just and equal world. Sounds easy, right? We sit down with director/writer Nefise Ozkal Lorentzen about why she felt compelled to share this story, some interesting challenges she had along the way, what a sexual revolution really mea...

Send us Fan Mail In 2018 Mexico had  a presidential election and saw a new type of candidate in Maria de Jesus Patricio Martinez aka Marichuy who was appointed by the National Indigenous Council  to run for office. Their approach was not singular, it was community driven and headed by a woman who was a doctor and a long time activist.   In this interview, we speak with director Luciana Kaplan who...

Send us Fan Mail Anyone out there remember the Whole Earth Catalog ?  We did too but didn't know who produced it. His name is Stewart Brand and not only did he create, along with his first wife Lois Jennings, this  counterculture magazine that started in 1968 and ran sporadically until 1998, he's credited in helping to be a co-founder of the environmental movement, as well as being one o...

Send us Fan Mail Coming in all the way from Nairobi, we welcome actors Wakio Mzenge and Mercy Mutisya on the show to talk about the film Tales of the Accidental City streaming during this years SFFIlm Festival !  We spoke with Wakio and Mercy about how this film was made during their Covid lockdown in Nairobi, how it was adapted from a play to a short film, and how thankful we are to have them on...

Send us Fan Mail To say we loved Don't Go Tellin' Your Momma is an understatement. East coast hip-hop artist Topaz Jones has updated  the Black ABC's , fifty years after its inception. And the result is this beautiful film that feels like you're watching both a music video and the most engaging history lesson ever. We get into the beginning of their creative friendship, how the...

Send us Fan Mail We're well underway (virtually!) covering this years SFFilm Festival ! Our first interview is with Nigerian-British born photographer Renee Osubu who's short film, Dear Philadelphia started  out as a photo project 6 years ago.  The short, which is filmed mostly in black and white, follows the story of three fathers in Philly who are transforming their communities through...

Send us Fan Mail We loved reliving our high school awkward years with Hillary and Anna Elizabeth Shakespeare , the sisters  behind the film, Soundtrack to Sixteen . We get into the differences between growing up British vs American, coming to terms with your childhood bullies, choosing the uncertainty of a career in the arts, and the  process of creating an impactful soundtrack. We hope you enjoy...

Send us Fan Mail We are honored to have Academy Award nominated composer Emile Mosseri on the show! We first heard Emile's music chops as the composer of the score for the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco   and that score touched our hearts in a  way we've never experienced . PERIODT.  So when we heard that Emile scored the film Minari , we had to see if he'd be on the show....

Send us Fan Mail The first time we met director Azazel Jacobs was for his film, The Lovers , in 2017, and we bonded over our mutual love for dogs! We were excited to reconnect for his most recent film, French Exit, starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges . We get into his process for building an incredible cast, working with cats, creating imaginary worlds, psychics and souls, and why making a...

Send us Fan Mail We just came off of (virtually) attending our first South by Southwest Festival , so we're talking all things film, music, comedy, and more! Including attending conferences with the likes of George W. Bush , and two of our favorite past guests, Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs (we can't wait for the spin-off TV series based on their film, Blindspotting )! We give you some b...

Send us Fan Mail This is our witch on witch episode featuring the Canadian musician Witch Prophet and Elle Callahan who is the writer/director of the film Witch Hunt .  It was so much fun for us to get into some witchy chat in two separate interviews during the SXSW festival with women who are creating art in their own genres!  With Witch Prophet, we talk music, Canada, and how her partner support...

Send us Fan Mail If you thought you knew about our country's troubling past, think again. Thankfully, Jeffery Robinson has come to our rescue, to fill in the major gaps (we're talking Grand Canyon sized gaps) in America's history of racism. The SXSW documentary Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America , is probably the most important film that we, as Americans, can watch in this...

Send us Fan Mail We had a lot of fun chatting with co-director of the SXSW documentary Luchadoras (and our new best friend) Paola Calvo .   The documentary follows four badass lady wrestlers who live in what is known as one of the most dangerous cities in the world, Ciudad Juarez , Mexico . As if the work they do isn't hard enough, just existing as a woman in this town is a threat to their li...

Send us Fan Mail Does anyone out there remember the name Reality Winner ? We had a fuzzy recollection of this 24-hour news cycle name that we heard early in 45's presidency but had forgotten because of the 24-hour news cycle we all lived through the past four years. Director Sonia Kennebeck has done a deep dive into this story following Reality as well as her families struggle with a governme...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're getting into the SXSW film Soy Cubana , a documentary that follows the Vocal Vidas , a musical group from Cuba as they attempt to travel to Los Angeles to perform in a summer concert series. We're joined by co-directors Jeremy Ung ar and Ivaylo Getov and producer Robin Miller Ungar, who explain how they got connected with the Vocal Vidas, and why they had to...