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Send us Fan Mail This episode of Slamdance 2025 celebrates films that bring thrills and horror! Portal to Hell follows a debt collector as his routine is turned upside down after finding a portal to hell in a laundromat. Director/writer Woody Bess and star Trey Holland discuss making a horror film on a budget, working with acting greats like Keith David and Richard Kind, and the best burgers in LA...

Send us Fan Mail We're highlighting Slamdance 2025 with two films that explore the different ways in which people process life.  The narrative feature Confessions Chin Chin spends the evening at a bar with a cast of misfits as they navigate love, art, secrets, and self-discovery. Director Carolina Perelman shares her thoughts on bar conversations with strangers, sex, and a memorable scene inv...

Send us Fan Mail We're at Slamdance 2025 celebrating two films that center around family issues. BANR is a narrative feature about a couple who has been together for forty years struggling with how to cope with the onset of Alzheimer's as the disease takes its toll. We were joined by director Erica Xia-Hou (夏侯云姗), who explains why she wrote the film during the pandemic as her grandmo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Slamdance 2025, where today we're bringing you two powerful documentaries. Larry (They/Them) follows non binary trans photographer Laurence Philomène during their transitional journey, as they piece together a photographic autobiography and art exhibit entitled "Puberty". Director Catherine Legault explains how she became friends with Laurence, bringing a...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Slamdance 2025! In honor of Slamdance's first time being held in LA, we're kicking things off with two documentaries that are LA as fuuuck. Coroner to the Stars chronicles the life and career of Dr. Thomas Noguchi , head medical examiner and coroner from the late 60s-early 80s in Los Angeles. Director Ben Hethcoat shares the ten year journey it took to get thi...

Send us Fan Mail Girls Will Be Girls follows 16 year-old Mira as she first discovers sexual desire while attending a strict boarding school in the Himalayas, but her coming-of-age is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself. Director/writer Shuchi Talati shares how she was delicately able to portray teenage sexuality, why certain crew members had a lot of tips for a certain stu...

Send us Fan Mail Hot damn, this is a fun one! Our friends at the Standard Deviant Brewing Co invited us to record on location at their 7th annual chili cook off, and as regular patrons, we can say without a doubt it’s one of the most fun events of the year. You’ll meet all ten of the competing teams, learn about their secret recipes, and the inspiration behind their costumes (true to SF, we saw ev...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our third and final episode for Sundance 2025, featuring two very timely feature length documentaries. Third Act is a documentary that follows the life of Asian American artist and activist Robert A. Nakamura (aka the godfather of Asian American media), while grappling with his recent Parkinson's diagnosis. We were joined by filmmaker (and Robert's son) Tadash...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the 2025 Sundance Film Festival ! This week we're going international with two films that are an homage to their homeland. Vox Humana is a beautifully stylized short film about an eccentric zoologist that gets hired to communicate with a naked man found wandering in the woods after a major earthquake. Director Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan and producer Hannah Schier...

Send us Fan Mail It's Sundance 2025 , and we are kicking the festival off with two of our favorites!  Remember Me is a short film that shows what happens when a woman who jut got dumped, turned 40, and returned home to take care of her dying father decides she's ready to go on a date. We are joined by director/writer/star Claire Titelman who shares how she found inspiration from the incr...

Send us Fan Mail Cassie Workman is a comedian from Australia who will be performing her one-person show, Aberdeen, at SF Sketchfest on Thursday, January 30th. The show is an epic poem inspired by the death of Kurt Cobain. Cassie shares with us how a visit to Cobain's hometown, Aberdeen, inspired her to write this show during the pandemic, the difference between comedy in Australia versus the...

Send us Fan Mail We love LA and are heartbroken for the devastation in the wake of the wildfires. See below for links on how you can help. Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory ARC Firefighter Funder Samantha Curley is an activist and producer whose most recent film, Union , documents a group of Amazon workers that embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Is...

Send us Fan Mail We have been following Jharrel Jerome 's acting career since Moonlight , and couldn't wait to have him on the show! Ange sits down with Jharrel to discuss his newest project, Unstoppable , based on the true story of wrestler Anthony Robles , who was born with one leg and became a national wrestling champion in 2011. He shares how he trained himself to use one leg, the em...

Send us Fan Mail Lane Moore is all the hyphenates- writer/actor/comedian/musician/all around bad-bitch. We had so much fun diving into the origin of her Tinder Live show that is celebrating its 10th anniversary at SF Sketchfest with guest hosts Busy Philipps and Paul F. Tompkins at Cobb's Comedy Club on January 24th ! She explains how she's been an all around artist since childhood, the...

Send us Fan Mail Nickel Boys is based on a novel (which is based on a true story ) that follows two African-American boys who form a close friendship while enduring the the horrors of a reform school in Florida. Director RaMell Ross sits down with Erin to discuss how he was able to conceptualize big concepts from the book into a film through tone and an incredible soundtrack, why it took four year...

Send us Fan Mail How is it possible that 2024 both flew by and seemed to last forever? With our Storied: San Francisco fellow podcaster (sometimes audio producer and Erin's partner) we recap behind the scenes highlights from festivals and live events, our favorite interviews and return guests, a year that brought the Bay's first POC Food and Wine Fest and Color Your Mind Festival , the b...

Send us Fan Mail Well…it’s been a long ass time since our last #BasicBitch, and we’ve got a lot to catch up on! Ange returned to her favorite town in Belize, Erin shares her love for Wicked, San Francisco “survived” a tsunami and tornado warning, and something exciting happened in Altoona, Pennsylvania (for maybe the first time ever?). Don’t forget to shop small, and check in with your loved ones,...

Send us Fan Mail Nurse Unseen is a documentary that explores the untold history and humanity of the Filipino nurses who risked their lives on the front lines of the pandemic while being thousands of miles away from home. Director Michele Josue explains the importance of telling Filipino stories through our lens, and how she started filming before the pandemic and when the story took an unexpected...

Send us Fan Mail Anyone out there feeling burnt out? Have a full calendar, but not feeling fulfilled?  Daydream about another kind of life, but not sure how to get there? You're not alone. There's a community of folks led by curiosity deep diving into their lives and filling their days with play, gratitude, push, and hustling. That community was founded and is facilitated by Morgan Shidl...

Send us Fan Mail Right now, there are Palestinian and Israeli people working toward peace. This work has transcended chaos, war, and hate. Frequent guest of the show, director Julie Cohen ( RBG , Every Body , My Name is Pauli Murray , Julia ) and new friend of the show director Mo Husseini partnered on The Path Forward   to capture the work done by everyday people who want to end histories of trau...

Send us Fan Mail A conversation with Jeff Hiller is so comforting, it's just the medicine we needed in this moment. He stars in one of Bitch Talk's favorite shows, Somebody Somewhere , which has started it's third and final season on HBO/Max/whatever it's called. He shares with us his biggest dream for a future acting role, the story behind his real life obsession with Menthola...

Send us Fan Mail Interior Chinatown is the new and exciting series on Hulu based on the novel of the same name. The story follows Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White, after he becomes witness to a crime and discovers secrets about his family's buried history. Ange sat down virtually with author/series writer Charles Yu to commiserate on ho...

Send us Fan Mail We were so excited to have director Nicholas Ma back on the show, and as you listen, you'll see exactly why. His new documentary, Leap of Faith , follows twelve diverse christian leaders as they struggle with some of today's most contentious issues. Nicholas shares his roller coaster of emotions while directing the film, his thoughts on why communication is the most impo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Flashback Friday! We're highlighting one of our favorite documentaries from the Slamdance Film Festival in 2023, Starring Jerry as Himself , which is available to watch right now, wherever you stream films. In Starring Jerry as Himself (winner of the Slamdance Grand Jury Documentary Feature Film Award, Audience Award for Documentary Feature Film, and Acting Award),...

Send us Fan Mail Seoul Switch is an extremely entertaining short film about an insecure Korean American boy who decides to switch places with an international K-Pop star that looks just like him. Writer/director Liann Kaye joins us virtually to explain how she got inspired to write this film, her own journey with her looks and feeling invisible as an Asian-American woman, and how she got real life...