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Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our live broadcast from the SFFilm Festival's filmmakers lounge! In this final SFFilm Fest episode, Erin sits down with director Rooth Tang and producer Michelle Moy to discuss their documentary film Rally , about San Francisco political kingmaker Rose Pak. If you're not from or live in the City, you may be asking yourself who's Rose Pak, and why sho...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to our live broadcast from the SFFilm Festival's filmmakers lounge! In this episode, Erin talks with the directors of the very powerful documentary Bad Press .  Bad Press   tells the story of when the Muscogee Nation suddenly begins censoring its free press, a rogue reporter fights to expose her government's corruption in a historic battle that will have ram...

Send us Fan Mail Hello again from SFFilm Festival 2023! Today's episode brings you director/writer Lorena Padilla and producer Georgina Gonzalez from the film Martinez.  In her directorial debut, Lorena has written and brought to life a beautiful story about an aging man who has mostly frowned at life and after a female neighbor around his age passes away, he picks up the remnants of her life...

Send us Fan Mail It's that time of year in San Francisco y'all. SFFilm Festival has rolled through the City and we're happy to bring you a few interviews we just held over the weekend LIVE in front of filmmakers and festival goers while sipping on some wine. First we are bringing you SFFilm Festival director of programming Jessie Fairbanks. Erin and Jessie talk about elevating new a...

Send us Fan Mail Zoe Lister-Jones is a bad bitch.  She is the writer, director, showrunner, and lead actor in her latest project SLIP now playing on The Roku Channel . We caught up with Zoe earlier this week to discuss this magically surreal, time jumping, orgasmic ride of a TV show. She enlightened us about when she started working on this script, how Buddhism influenced the story line, how impor...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in Austin, Texas! Holy shit, this interview is a doozy. To our regular listeners, this episode is more of a #BasicBitch than an interview, and at one point the tables were turned and Erin and Ange were the ones receiving questions. Let's just say that we had a meeting of the minds with these ladies, and this is (hopefully) the...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas! We watched the Blindspotting Season 2 premiere, now it's time to party! This is a Basic Bitch from the Fairmont Hotel in Austin, as we celebrate the season premiere with cast and crew from the show. Listen to what happens when you're halfway through covering a festival and you mix hors d'oeuvres w...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas! Blindspotting Season 2 (TV Spotlight Audience Award Winner) is finally here! And we're excited to bring you a conversation with Executive Producer, Jess Wu Calder , as this season marks her directorial debut. Jess has been with Blindspotting since the beginning, and she shares how her idea to make a film th...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas! Closing Dynasty (Audience Award Winner for the Narrative Shorts Competition) follows 7 year old Queenie as she hustles and makes money off the streets of NYC on a school day. Director Lloyd Lee Choi shares why it was important for him to tell this story (and the twist at the end), how it was difficult for him to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas!  It's Only Life After All is a documentary that gives you everything you've ever wanted to know (and things you didn't know you wanted to know) about the Indigo Girls . Director Alexandria Bombach sat down with us to share how the Indigo Girls changed her life, the role that homophobia and misogyn...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas!  Queendom is a documentary that follows Gena Marvin , a queer artist from a small town in Russia, as she wears costumes and stages performances that blend a new form of art and activism- and the dangers she faces as a result. We were joined by director Agniia Galdanova and producer Igor Myakotin to discuss how t...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the South By Southwest ( SXSW ) Festival in Austin, Texas! We're kicking off our coverage with two powerful short films, Scotty's Vag , and Vibrator Girl . Scotty's Vag explores a night of sorority hazing, and how far one girl is willing to go to fit in. Director Chaconne Martin-Berkowicz sat down with us to talk about her experience with sororities, her...

Send us Fan Mail A Good Person follows Allison, a woman who seemingly has her life together, until her involvement in a fatal car accident changes everything. It's safe to say we all loved this film, yet we were not prepared for the emotional gut punch. It was the first time that a movie had everyone on the Bitch Talk team not only laughing, but also in tears.  We sat down virtually with writ...

Send us Fan Mail WE ARE AT SXSW, Y'ALL! With the help of a special someone in our Bitch Talk community, we were grateful to get to the SXSW  (South By South West conference & festival) in person for the first time. SXSW is not for the faint of heart. There are conference panels (with folks like Barack Obama), film and TV premieres, music EVERYWHERE, comedy, and art exhibitions.  It's...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of the upcoming Oscars (Sunday, March 12th), we're rewinding to the films we've covered that have been nominated for Academy Awards! This film is nominated for a record eleven academy awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best supporting Actress (for both Jamie Lee Curtis and Stephanie Hsu), Best Original Screenplay,...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of the upcoming Oscars (Sunday, March 12th), we're rewinding to the films we've covered that have been nominated for Academy Awards! The animated episodic series  My Year of Dicks  follows Pam, a teenager trying desperately to lose her virginity, and the dicks (literally and metaphorically) she meets along the way. We're joined by director  Sara Gunnarsdott...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of the upcoming Oscars (Sunday, March 12th), we're rewinding to the films we've covered that have been nominated for Academy Awards! In Sara Dosa's  Fire of Love , we get an intimate look at the lives of the world's most famous volcanologist couple,  Katia and Maurice Kraft , whose love for volcanoes and capturing the most informative (and closest) foo...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of the upcoming Oscars (Sunday, March 12th), we're rewinding to the films we've covered that have been nominated for Academy Awards! Pixar 's  Turning Red  follows Mei Lee, a 13-year-old Chinese-Canadian who starts turning into a giant red panda when she gets too excited- a metaphor for "magical puberty". Mei Lee and her friends are also obsessed...

Send us Fan Mail It's been a minute since we've caught up, and a lot has happened! Ange has been traveling, Erin met a ghost (or two?!?) and they both share their attempt at the keto diet. We also discuss the return of our friend Richard aka "The Curse" aka "Ricardo Falls", and how the novel Shantaram spawned a unique encounter. Plus we give you a tease at our coverag...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Day Twelve and our final episode of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Joined again by our Park City cohort & honorary bitch John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we're capping it off with one very unique project from each festival. The Slamdance episodic series Who's Annie is a dark comedy about a New Yorker in her 50's who is starting an act...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Day Eleven of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Joined again by our Park City cohort & honorary bitch John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , this time we're highlighting three powerful Sundance short films that center around the family. In AirHostess-737 , an air hostess struggles with the discomfort of her braces while working a flight that is also bri...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day 10 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Joined again by our Park City cohort & honorary bitch John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we're highlighting a Slamdance documentary and short film both made by directors from the Bay! Sign The Show is a documentary that gives insight into Deaf Culture, and the difficulties they face in regards to access to...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day 9 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Joined again by our Park City cohort & honorary bitch John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we're highlighting a Sundance film and series that focus on Indigenous issues.  Twice Colonized is a documentary that tells the story of Aaju Peter , a Greenlandic Inuit lawyer and activist who is working to bring her c...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to day 8 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Along with our Park City Co-Host John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we are sharing two award winning Slamdance documentaries that follow people with very complicated lives. In Silent Love (winner of the Slamdance Grand Jury Honorable Mention for Documentary Feature Film), we follow Aga who, after the death of her mo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Day Seven of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Per the usual with Honorary Bitch John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we're highlighting three Sundance documentary films that focus on strong women who changed the game. In Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields , we get an inside look on how her rise to fame at a young age caused her to be sexualized as a child, and...