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Send us Fan Mail We had an amazing experience covering the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival, and we're bringing you all of the behind the scenes dirt! Find out how we ended up doing not one, but 2 interviews for 2 different films ( The Fabulous Filipino Brothers , and Ricochet ), which film left us pleasantly confused, which interview made one of us so nervous she couldn't...

Send us Fan Mail We're wrapping up our coverage of the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival with a powerful documentary, Because We Are Girls . Director Baljit Sangra , who also directed a short that preceded the documentary entitled Have You Forgotten Me , explains why it is so important to capture the lives and history of Asian immigrants, and in this case, in the form of a Punja...

Send us Fan Mail We're celebrating Asian American history at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival, this time focusing on a documentary called The Race Epidemic . The history of racism against Asian Americans is something that has been hidden and erased from our history books, making a documentary like this more important than ever in this moment. We sat down with filmmakers Ton...

Send us Fan Mail We're virtually covering the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival, featuring the documentary Who Is Lun*na Menoh?   and the prolific Japanese artist herself, Lun*na Menoh , who Zooms with us to talk about her art, the question of what is reality, getting lost in the twists and turns of this film, and which art form she considers to bring her the most joy. This is a...

Send us Fan Mail We are back at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival and have a packed house this time around with director Patricio Ginelsa and stars April Absynth and Katrina Dimaranan from the long awaited sequel Lumpia with a Vengeance . We get into the creative ways to make lumpia on the go, having badass bitches as the hero and the villain, the importance of diversity and repr...

Send us Fan Mail We're full steam ahead at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival, and this time, we're bringing the Aloha spirit to Bitch Talk with the documentary One Voice . This film follows ten Native Hawaiian high schoolers as they prepare for the annual Kamehameha School Song Contest. Director Lisette Flanary talks about the importance of revitalizing the traditional...

Send us Fan Mail We're at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival covering Legacy and Lineage , a series of shorts that highlights 5 Bay Area Asian American artists. We spoke with director Laura Paule and producer Melanie Elvena about how they chose which artists to cover, why this project is especially personal to both of them, and how the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (...

Send us Fan Mail We're at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival with part 2 of our coverage on the documentary Ricochet (if you haven't already, check out part 1 with director Chihiro Wimbush !). Matt Gonzalez is someone whose work we have followed (both as a trial lawyer and as a politician) in San Francisco for almost 20 years, and we were so excited to have him on the sh...

Send us Fan Mail We're at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival discussing Ricochet , a documentary that follows a San Francisco court case that ultimately had an affect on the 2016 election and the state of the entire nation. It's a riveting documentary that not only shows you the complicated nature of court cases, but also how politics and the media often get in the way....

Send us Fan Mail We're covering another amazing documentary at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Festival, The Donut King ! The doc follows the life of Ted Ngoy , a Cambodian refugee who lived through both the rise and the fall of the American Dream - by way of donut. We chat with director Alice Gu about how the story kept progressing into so much more,  why it was important to add h...

Send us Fan Mail We're (virtually) covering the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) Film Festival, and bringing you a conversation with director/co-writer Iman Zawahry and co-writer/star Aizzah Fatima from the film Americanish . This is the first American Muslim romantic comedy made by an American Muslim director, and it's about damn time! We get into what it took to get this film mad...

Send us Fan Mail Thank you to CAAMFest, we had the honor of hosting their spotlight panel with dream Bitch Talk guest, Margaret Cho and filmmakers Minsun Park and Teddy Tenenbaum to talk about their horror short - Koreatown Ghost Story .   Since this was a live (virtual) panel, you will hear an interview with comedian/actress/activist and SF native Margaret Cho talking about her lengthy career, th...

Send us Fan Mail The documentary WUHAN WUHAN   follows five stories as the Covid-19 epidemic is at its worst in the Wuhan province in China during February and March of 2020. Director Yung Chang was not in Wuhan filming as this part of the pandemic was unfolding, but was fortunate to receive the footage from a team of filmmakers that were in Wuhan by chance at the time.  The stories give a snapsho...

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...