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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...

Send us Fan Mail We have another Basic Bitch for your ass, covering everything from the impeachment trial, preparing for our first SXSW, attacks on the AAPI community that have been in an uptick across our country, to an exciting new segment for our show. What do Rush Limbaugh and Baby Yoda have in common? You'll have to take a listen to find out. -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, an...

Send us Fan Mail Next stop, Slamdance y'all!  Our first interview during the film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers is with director Chelsea Christer and band member of The Matches ,  Justin  San Souci. In this interview, they talk about their documentary Bleeding Audio , which follows the journey of a band out of Oakland, Ca. called   The Matches .  The  incredible footage they have of t...

Send us Fan Mail It's our Sundance 2021  wrap-up with our honorary Bitches John Wildman and Justina Walford of  FilmsGoneWild.com. We talk the pros and cons of attending a virtual event (we missed being in Park City, but we are not complaining about doing interviews in our pajamas), our favorite interviews, which film has left us scarred for life, and spill some serious tea on what it's...

Send us Fan Mail We're here at  Sundance 2021  (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. In this episode, we're proud to bring you filmmakers and stories exclusively from the Bay! We're joined with the cast and crew from the films Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir , Homeroom , and Marvelous and the Black Hole . Producer Cassan...

Send us Fan Mail We're here at  Sundance 2021  (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of   FilmsGoneWild.com. Happy hump day, ya'll! In this Episode, we are with the crew from First Date , One For the Road , and Pleasure , three films that will take you for a ride in more ways than one!  In First Date , we're joined by director Manuel Cro...

Send us Fan Mail We're here at  Sundance 2021  (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of   FilmsGoneWild.com. In this Episode, we're joined by the cast and crew from the documentaries Bring Your Own Brigade , Rebel Hearts , and A Concerto is a Conversation . Emmy-winning director Lucy Walker shares her journey digging into the complicated hist...

Send us Fan Mail We're here at  Sundance 2021  (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance Partner-In-Crime John Wildman of  FilmsGoneWild.com. In this episode, we're joined with the cast and crew from the films   The Blazing World , Strawberry Mansion , and We're All Going to the World's Fair , all thriller/sci-fi films that will leave you debating the difference bet...

Send us Fan Mail We're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance Partner-In-Crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com.   In this Episode, we are with the crew from My Name is Pauli Murray and Playing with Sharks , two documentaries that cover powerhouse women!   In Betsy West and Julie Cohen 's documentary, Pauli Murray gets her long overdue moment to shin...

Send us Fan Mail We've been virtually covering the Sundance Film Fest for the last week or so and wanted to check-in with our friend, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild . Normally we'd be in a room with John co-hosting a show called The Festival Daily Buzz for a local Park City, Utah radio station, but this year, since we're sheltering in place, we're Sundanc-ing as our respective...

Send us Fan Mail Third times a charm, y'all. We're back at the Sundance Film Festival, virtually of course, and we're starting it off with a local story directed by San Franciscan Debbie Lum.  Her film, Try Harder!  focus's on a handful of Lowell High School - a public school that kids have to test into - and their (and sometimes parents) obsession with getting into Ivy League...

Send us Fan Mail Erin and Ange sit down with Erika Cohn, director of the documentary Belly of the Beast , a film that follows the fight against the illegal sterilization of women in prison . While this documentary has been 10 years in the making, it all started when she became a volunteer at the Oakland based organization Justice Now , which fights to provide social justice for women in prison. We...

Send us Fan Mail We're baaaaaaaaaack. So much to talk about and not enough time... Why does it feel like we've already lived a full year and it's only mid-January?  Maybe Dr. Fauci can answer that? Anyway, we've got your first Basic Bitch ready for your 2021 ears and man, do we get IN TO IT.  We watched the fuck outta the inauguration and have a lot of thoughts about the day an...

Send us Fan Mail Hello Bitch Talkers and welcome to our first official recording of 2021. We're not wasting any time and catching up with our friend of the show, Sophia Andary, who's running for a delegate spot in Assembly District 19.  We met Sophia in 2018 when she came on the podcast to talk abut her role in San Francisco Women's March as well as to promote the event. We've...