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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...

Send us Fan Mail When we decided to have director Martin Edralin on the show to talk about his film Islands , we didn't know how the movie was going to effect us. Martin wrote and directed a film that perfectly describes the experience of a Filipino family outside of their homeland. It tackles the real challenges around the caretaking of one parent after the other passes away, processing (or...

Send us Fan Mail It's day one of the SXSW film festival for us and we're covering a couple of our favorite short films  from the fest - PUSS and Learning Tagalog with Kayla .  Both have a lot in common - they feature cats, they were written and filmed during the pandemic, and each film covers topics we've often talked about while living through 2020. Each film has its quirks which i...

Send us Fan Mail Your bitches got some time on the calendar to Basic Bitch.  That's right, between film festival coverage,  we got to sneak some time in to talk about our undying love for the film Nomadland , the recently announced 2021 Academy Award nominations , our Covid vaccine stories, Ange's powerpoint presentation on how the Catholic church fucked up her life, and so much more.  L...

Send us Fan Mail Thanks to our friends at FilmsGoneWild.com , we're at the San Luis Obispo Film Festival with Spencer Wilkinson , the director of the documentary Alice Street . The film centers around a mural created by the Community Rejuvenation Project to be located on an iconic corner of Alice street in Oakland, Ca.  But the film encompasses so much more! We get into gentrification, the cu...

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). In honor of the success of Steven Yeun 's most recent film, Minari , we wanted to flash back to our interview with him from November of 2018. Not only was this interview recorded in studio (remember when we used...

Send us Fan Mail Yeah, this Basic Bitch is pretty much all about the Oprah / Meghan Markle / Harry interview.  All three of us bitches watched the Oprah interview, and then a couple of us followed that interview up with the Oprah/CBS Morning conversation the next day. So many enlightening moments came from the interview for all of us  including the overarching conversation around mental health, pa...

Send us Fan Mail Our last Slamdance Film Festival interview is with director Alberto Gerosa from his film Dea .   We had an excellent time speaking with Alberto about his film which dives into the world of domestic help in Hong Kong.  His approach was unique as he immersed himself with the workers and then the script evolved out of a 9 month  acting improv laboratory with the group of Indonesian d...

Send us Fan Mail We had so much fun chatting about the Slamdance documentary Workhorse Queen with director Angela Washko and the film's star, Mrs. Kasha Davis . The film follows Mrs. Kasha Davis' journey (both on the stage and off) as a "International Celebrity Housewife from the suburbs", and how her her run on RuPaul's Drag Race changed the course of her career in ways s...

Send us Fan Mail We couldn't stop smiling and laughing with comedian and writer Rekha Shankar who had an episodic called Hustle that was a part of this years Slamdance Film Festival.  Hustle features two women of color, working their crappy day jobs  in New York City and suffering with their big bosses. The hook of the show is that while they're living their everyday lives, they get to u...

Send us Fan Mail We're so happy to bring you this inspirational conversation with director/talent Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander and cinematographer/talent Danisha Harris of the Slamdance documentary Anatomy of Wings . The film tells the story of an after school program that follows 10 young black women for 12 years as they come of age in Baltimore City. We get into the importance of giving...

Send us Fan Mail We're so lucky that Slamdance has provided some deep conversations about race, culture, and community with filmmakers. This interview with director, actor, writer, and film professor Skinner Myers is nothing short of all of these topics and more. The Sleeping Negro tells the story of a young Black man confronted with a series of racially charged incidents, who must overcome r...

Send us Fan Mail We're bringing you another Slamdance  conversation with Jason Polevoi , director of the documentary A Tiny Ripple of Hope . This powerful doc follows a tumultuous year in the life of Jahmal Cole , the founder and Executive Director of My Block, My Hood, My City , a non-profit that provides underprivileged Chicago youth with an awareness of the world and opportunities beyond t...