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Send us Fan Mail We’re on location at the inaugural POC Food and Wine Festival - a celebration of the global majority in food, wine, music and culture! The folks at Make it Mariko , an SF events company led by women of color (with the badass Gina Mariko Rosales at the helm), brought to life a magical multi-day multi-city event that will definitely be the first of many. You’ll hear from cook/speake...

Send us Fan Mail We're recapping our 800th episode party at the Casements Bar and the SF premiere of Gasoline Rainbow . And then to celebrate the release of the hilarious film Babes , we're giving you our SXSW red carpet chats with director Pamela Adlon , stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau and writer/producer Josh Rabinowitz . For Gasoline Rainbow  screen times click here For Babes  ...

Send us Fan Mail Holy shit, we're 800 episodes old! And we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than with some of our all time favorite guests, Bill and Turner Ross . We met up during the SXSW festival at the Mean-Eyed Cat , one of our favorite bars in Austin, to discuss Gasoline Rainbow , their newest film that your favorite bitches make a brief cameo in! Gasoline Rainbow   follo...

Send us Fan Mail We're excited to have return guest Jane Schoenbrun with a powerhouse film that they wrote and directed, I Saw The TV Glow . The film is set in the '90s and follows Owen, an awkward teenager whose classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night tv show, and his new obsession begins to cause cracks in his sense of reality. Jane describes their "egg crack moment&qu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our SFFilm  Festival episode! We start with some fun stories from our coverage of the festival, before sharing a great conversation with one of our newest friends/honorary bitch, director Nicholas Ma of the film Mabel . Mabel follows 13 year old Callie, an awkward kid whose one friend, Mabel, is a plant- until her teacher Ms. G introduces her to the world of "plant...

Send us Fan Mail We have a lot to catch up on in this Basic Bitch, including our behind the scenes stories from the SFFilm Festival , Ange's trip to Mexico, and Erin's thoughts on the Taylor Swift craze. And don't forget we'll be at the POC Food and Wine Fest this weekend (tickets are still available here ), and you can join us to celebrate our 800th episode at the premiere of...

Send us Fan Mail This episode brings you an interview and a memorable red carpet experience for a SXSW film that we had so much fun watching! I Don't Understand You is a narrative film that follows an American couple on the verge of adopting a baby as they find themselves stranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills. And of course, chaos ensues. Our first interview is wit...

Send us Fan Mail This is a special episode because we loved this SXSW documentary so much, we're covering it with two separate interviews! Billy & Molly: An Otter Love Story is a heart-warming film about the love between a man and a wild otter, set in the remote Scottish islands of Shetland. We are first joined by director Charlie Hamilton James and producer Jeff Wilson who share how they...

Send us Fan Mail We've been wanting Gina Mariko Rosales on the show for a long time, and when you give this episode a listen, you'll see why! She gets into her origin story (born and raised in Daly City), and how working in the corporate world led her to start Make it Mariko , a Bay Area creative events agency led by women of color. Then we dive into the impact that Undiscovered SF has h...

Send us Fan Mail This episode explores two SXSW Film Festival documentaries that are very dick-heavy (literally and figuratively). A House Is Not A Disco captures a year in the life of the world's most iconic homo-normative community: Fire Island Pines . Director Brian J. Smith and producer Jeremy Truong share the difficulty of staying focused while you're being offered margaritas during...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we're discussing two SXSW Film Festival narrative films that center around being lost and searching for something. In We're All Gonna Die , an alien spike has materialized onto the earth's atmosphere, and a struggling beekeeper and a grieving EMT are forced to join forces on a roadtrip after the spike has mysteriously caused the teleportation of his...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we discuss two beautiful SXSW Film Festival documentaries about processing loss and grief. Songs From The Hole is a documentary/visual album that follows JJ'88, a prisoner struggling with being both a perpetrator and victim of violence, through hip-hop and soul. We are joined by director Contessa Gayles , producer Richie Reseda , and writer/co-producer JJ&apos...

Send us Fan Mail This episode brings you two SXSW Film Festival documentaries that will introduce you to two amazing women that should already be household names. The World According to Allee Willis shares the story of one of the most successful singer/songwriter/artists of our time, Allee Willis , from her strict upbringing to her creative successes (despite struggling to fit in with sexual and g...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're bringing you two SXSW films (a documentary and a narrative) that deal with the search for family. She Looks Like Me is a documentary about a baby born without legs who was abandoned by her parents, and finds out that the gymnast she idolized, Dominique Moceanu, is her long lost sister. We were extremely excited to be joined by gold medal gymnast Dominique Moceanu...

Send us Fan Mail We're bringing you two documentaries from the SXSW Film Festival that tell stories of sexual assault, a broken justice system, and women finding their voice. An Army of Women follows a group of women in Austin, TX, who join forces to challenge the broken system that allowed their rapists to walk free. Director Julie Lunde Lillesæter and one of the film's subjects, Marina...

Send us Fan Mail Our SXSW Film Festival coverage is in full swing with two narrative films that deal with lies and finding out the truth. We Strangers follows a commercial cleaner as she tells a lie (that she can speak to the dead) that spirals out of control. We chat with director/writer Anu Valia about how she created the uncomfortable/anxious tone for the film, interweaving themes of race, powe...

Send us Fan Mail Y'all,  it's been way too long  since our last official Basic Bitch. Needless to say, we have a lot of catching up to do! We give you our awards season highlights, an awkward story about Ange's trip to Zihuatanejo, Mexico, fundraising for Planned Parenthood Mar Monte , Erin's transformative experience at a Jon Batiste concert, the joy of seeing comedian Frankie...

Send us Fan Mail We're kicking off our SXSW 2024 coverage with a serious bang! Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told (streaming now on Hulu ) is a documentary about the epic Atlanta street party (aka the "Black Woodstock") that took place in the 80s and 90s, and put Atlanta on the map as the epicenter of Black culture. This interview has a virtual lineup of heavy hitters, including...

Send us Fan Mail In the fictional film Float (streaming now on Amazon Prime !), a young woman unexpectedly falls in love with the small-town lifeguard who rescued her from drowning. Director Sherren Lee joins us via zoom to share how she adapted the story from a book by Kate Marchant and was able to make it her own, why being an immigrant from Taiwan helped her relate to the theme of belonging, an...

Send us Fan Mail Recorded on our last day in Park City, Utah, we recap the Sundance and Slamdance Film festivals with our co-co-host and honorary bitch, John Wildman. We get into some R rated moments, behind the scenes etiquette (or lack thereof) at red carpets, talking Hall & Oates and Huey Lewis with the CEO of Netflix, and some highlights of our most memorable moments. Check out John Wildma...

Send us Fan Mail This is our final Sundance Film Festival episode and we're ending it with two documentaries about and made by some badass women! Frida (now available on prime video!) is a deep dive into the iconic artist Frida Kahlo , told through her own words from diaries, essays, letters, and interviews. Director Carla Guiterrez explains what she learned about Frida through making this fi...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're bringing you two documentaries from the Sundance Film Festival 2024 that explore alternative lifestyles. DIG! XX exposes the friendship and rivalry of two dueling bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre . In this 20th anniversary extended cut of the rock documentary DIG! , director/producer Ondi Timoner and producer/editor David Timoner (yes they...

Send us Fan Mail This is our final Slamdance Film Festival episode and we're ending it with three   documentaries/projects that deal with important international issues. Petro follows former guerilla Senator Gustavo Petro's bid for president as it divides Colombia, a country yearning for change. Director Sean Mattison and producer Trevor Martin join us to share the unique way they first...

Send us Fan Mail Today we're covering two Sundance Film Festival narrative short films, Boi de Conchas and Thirstygirl . In Boi de Conchas , a teenager is searching for her missing sister as local teens are mysteriously being turned into oxen. Director Daniel Barosa explains why death metal was the perfect sound for this story, telling dark themes through fiction, and the special meaning behi...

Send us Fan Mail Holy shit, this is a fun episode! We're covering 2 Slamdance Film Festival short films that are frightening in very different ways. Legend of El Cucuy is a short film about a monster that kidnaps disobedient children at night. Director Cynthia Garcia Williams sits down with us to talk about the importance of casting Afro-Latinos and incorporating Spanish into the film, how Jo...