Bitch Talk Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We kick off the conversation with producer Ryan Coogler , who talks about the work he's been doing with his company, Proximity Media , and how much each project means to him. Next we speak to Jason Richards , Steph's college teammate, who discusses the surreal feeling of being on the red carpet and what it's like to have known Steph since he was 16. Then friend of t...

Send us Fan Mail This is the first #BasicBitch that we've recorded since March, and clearly we have a lot of shit to catch up on! We talk major changes in the Bitch Talk universe (including celebrating our 10 year anniversary!), highlights from CAAMFest (the Center for Asian American Media Film Festival), our favorite movies of the summer, fancy dinners, live music/art, dicks and menopause, o...

Send us Fan Mail Holy shit, it's the Indigo Girls ! We interviewed the director ( Alexandria Bombach ) of their documentary It's Only Life After All , at SXSW this year and we've been waiting to interview Amy and Emily ever since. And what better timing than Pride weekend before their set at the Stern Grove Festival  - one of our favorite summertime activities in San Francisco! Amy...

Send us Fan Mail This is a film that makes us proud to be from the Bay! Earth Mama follows a pregnant young single mother of two who embraces her Bay Area community as she determines the fate of her family. Director Savanah Leaf sits down with us to explain how this film was born from her short film The Heart Still Hums , the meaning of the title, and how writing the screenplay was a form of thera...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the SF Frameline Film Festival! Every Body is an important and beautiful documentary that focuses on three intersex people's lives as they process the traumas of their past, find community, thrive in their personal lives, and become leaders in the movement for a greater understanding of the intersex community and an end to unnecessary surgeries.  Director Julie Coh...

Send us Fan Mail We're on location at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco to talk about the exciting new Disney+ comedy/action series, American Born Chinese . Executive Producer/graphic novelist Gene Luen Yang and actor Daniel Wu sit down with us to talk about the audience reaction at the series premiere at SXSW , how the casting and timing of the show created a perfect storm (in the best w...

Send us Fan Mail Get ready to laugh your ass off! Author/comedian/blogger/tv writer Samantha Irby is in the house and if you've ever read any of her books, she does not disappoint. As the conversation fluctuates between heavy and light (ie: from bowel issues to the deaths of our mothers), she is as real as it gets in the most hilarious way possible. You'll hear her thoughts on assisted l...

Send us Fan Mail That's right y'all, the bitch is back - W. Kamau Bell. We got to sit down in Kamau's NEW PRODUCTION OFFICES!! in Oakland and have a serious sit down with our un-official co-host about his latest documentary 1000% Me now streaming on HBOMax, his Peabody award for We Need to Talk About Cosby , what happened with his show United Shades on CNN , why it's hard for h...

Send us Fan Mail We're celebrating CAAMFest (the Center for Asian American Media Festival) 2023 with the awesome and inspiring documentary, Fanny: The Right To Rock . Ange sits down (virtually) with director Bobbi Jo Hart to discuss how she first found out about Fanny (the first all female rock band to release an album on a major label), and the serendipitous steps (including a David Bowie qu...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to CAAMFest (Center for Asian American Media) 2023, where we're covering a documentary on our favorite pool player of all time, Jeanette Lee VS . Director Ursula Liang and Jeanette Lee (aka the Black Widow) sat down with us to share how this film came to be during a very life changing time for both of them. Ursula shares some insight for indie filmmakers on being comm...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to CAAMFEST ( Center For Asian American Media) 2023! We're kicking off the festival (May 11-21st) by bringing you a fun conversation with the Festival and Exhibitions Director, Thúy Trần.  Thúy is a ball of energy and a force to be reckoned with! She shares her upbringing as a Vietnamese immigrant, why she felt called to the Bay Area, how she landed her role at CAAM,...

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...