Carolyn Talks..., Podcast

Screening at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, Snakehead the crime saga the debut feature film of writer and director by Evan Jackson Leong is as much about the gritty underworld of human trafficking, as it is about the emotional toll being an immigrant takes on the psyche. Through his main female characters Sister Tse (Shuya Chang) and Dai Mah (Jade Wu) audiences see the generational...

The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is one of the most anticipated film fests in the world, providing opportunities for filmmakers - first timers and veterans alike to have their creations seen by journalists, every day citizens, and in the age of streaming platforms, marketers who may take interest in helping their films reach even wider audiences. One of those filmmakers is Taiwanese wr...

August Episode of So Here’s What Happened! picks up with LaNeysha and Carolyn diving into discussion and review everything they watched and read during the month. The August episode of the podcast features Dark Blood #1 ,  Fear the Walking Dead, D.P., Candy Man , Ten Months  and Raging Fire . Featured books for this episode:  Dark Blood #1 Dark Blood #1 is one of the newes...

Written and directed by Travis Taute , Indemnity is a fast paced South African action thriller that smartly uses its action sequences as a tool to show the vulnerable state it's protagonist Theo Abrams ( Jarrid Geduld ) is in after suffering a devastating loss. Premiering at the 2021 Fantasia Film International Festival . Indemnity is the debut feature film for Taute, who's known for his work as a...

Fantasia Fest 2021 is underway with films of all genres to be seen for the very first time by audiences all around the world thanks to virtual screening, and one of the films making their debut is Baby, Don't Cry , directed by Jesse Dvorak . Written by and starring Zita Bai , Baby' Don't Cry , is a surrealistic coming of age film about Baby, a 17-year-old Chinese immigrant grappling with the...

Episode 29 of So Here’s What Happened! has LaNeysha and Carolyn dive into discussion and review of all the things they watched and read during the month of July, which includes the manga Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Volume 23,  The Owl House , and Black Widow.  Featured books for this episode:  Demon Slayer Volume 23, Dark Blood Volume 1. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Volume...

So Here’s What Happened in Loki is an all-new episode where LaNeysha and Carolyn discuss the first season of Marvel’s hit limited series Loki (2021). Join Join the ladies on this episode as they what happened in Loki. As they dive into a deep discussion to recap the first season of Loki. The ladies get into the things they likes, disliked, theories, and more as they recap Marvel’s latest hit...

For a short film, For Your Consideration tackles many topics that have long been part of the regular discourse for people in marginalized community, but thanks to social media, become "trending topics" to those no part of those communities. To these people, things like racism, accessibility, women's right and the prison industrial complex are just things they can chat about at brunch. Written and...

Written and directed by Annalise Lockhart , Inheritance is a multi-genre short film about a Black family in Vermont who encounter the ghosts of white people passed on from the mortal world, but still intent on preventing the family from living in peace on their own property. During our chat for Carolyn Talks... I spoke with Annalise and her cast, Victoria A. Villier, Ron Brice and DeLelon Dallas a...

In my newest episode of Carolyn Talks..., I chat with cctress Deepti Gupta about her supporting role in India Sweets and Spices , premiering at the 2021 Tribeca Festival . Written and directed by Geeta Malik, the film uses humor to delve into the complexities of female personhood, and relationships. When UCLA student Alia ( Sophia Ali ) returns home for summer vacation, she's struck by the realiza...

Stephanie Williams, comic creator and writer, joins LaNeysha and Carolyn on this new episode of So Here's What Happened to discuss her crowd-funded comic,  Living Heroes. Living Heroes  is an original comic series featuring short stories starring beloved Marvel heroines such as  Ororo Monroe (Storm), Monica Rambeau, Jennifer Walters (She-Hulk), and Misty Knight living...

Episode 27 of So Here’s What Happened LaNeysha and Carolyn return from a brief hiatus to share their thoughts on films, books, and TV for the month of May. On this new episode the ladies dive into discussion and review of all the things they have watched and read. For this month that includes  Blue Flag Volume 7 , Falcon and the Winter Soldier , and Mortal Kombat . Book:  Blue Flag...

So Here’s What Happened is a proud member of the But Why Tho? Podcast Community. On this episode of So Here’s What Happened! podcast LaNeysha and Carolyn get the opportunity to speak with Jennifer Holness the director of  Subjects of Desire.  The documentary premiered at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival in the Documentary Feature Competition. The  101-minute documentary  i...

In this episode Carolyn speaks with Kayla Lewis and Luke Salin about their debut pilot  Parked in America  which screened at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival in the Episodic Pilot Competition. The show is a half-hour dramedy focused on Jamie Park (July Song) a young South Korean girl travels to Illinois due to a tragic situation involving her older sister. During our discussion, Kayla Lewis a...

On February 22, 2020, winners of the 18th Annual ACTRA Toronto Awards were announced during a ceremony at The Carlu, in downtown Toronto. Before the ceremony got underway, I had the opportunity to sit down with Jean Yoon, who was being honored with the Award of Excellence in commemoration of her career an actress and advocate in the entertainment industry, and Julie Limieux, nominated for her voic...

Screening at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival in the Spotlight Screening Section, and starring Alfred Enoch, Taís Araujo and Seu Jorge,  Executive Order  is a film that speaks to the struggles of Black Brazilians as their very identities as Black people and Brazilians are called into question, and later persecuted when the white incumbent president and his supporters seek to oust all Bla...

Ahead of it’s release at the 2021 SXSW Film Festival I had the opportunity to speak with the writers, directors and producers of revenge thriller  Violation , Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli for  Carolyn Talks… , Since it’s premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival,  Violation  has generated a lot of discussion surrounding it’s portrayal of rape and rev...

For this episode of  Carolyn Talks…  I speak with writer, director and producer  Shatara Michelle Ford  about  Test Pattern , her debut feature film, and about how her approach as a filmmaker shows the connections between race, politics and gender create situations where victims of sexual assault are marginalized by the very systems that are supposed to offer support....

Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America  is a documentary directed and produced by Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler written and produced by Jeffery Robinson showing at SXSW Film Festival.  Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America   is a 118-minute documentary that is centered on Robinson’s Town Hall performance, the film interweaves historical and present-day arc...

In this new episode of  Carolyn Talks… , I speak with Cherokee Nation film critic  Shea Vassar , we discuss  Wild Indian , the debut feature film of writer-director Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr., which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2021. When Makwa a young Anishinaabe boy kills a classmate and coerces his friend Ted-O to help him bury the body and the truth, their...

Carolyn Talks… is back with a new episode, this time with animation artist Frank E. Abney III. In this episode, Carolyn discusses Frank Abney’s new Netflix short film  Canvas , which has been a passion project of his for years. Written and directed by Frank, the film is a beautiful illustration of how people experience, grief and how the seemingly simple actions of a child can begin the...

LaNeysha and Carolyn are back with their first new episode of 2021! We are finally back to doing the original format of the show, where the ladies discuss all of the things they have watched and read for the month. On this episode they get into the and discuss the fan comic created by Stephanie Willians, Living Heroes, the latest Studio Ghibli Film, Earwig and the Witch, WandaVision and much more!...

The 2021 Sundance Film Festival began its week of screenings and various online events on January 28th, among those screening, is  Doublespeak , an original film entered into Short Films Program. In this episode of  Carolyn Talks… , I speak with writer and director Hazel McKibbin, and actress Angela Wong Carbone about their technical and emotional approaches to preparing for and making t...

On this episode of So Here's What Happened Neysha and Carolyn get into the Holiday spirit. The ladies play a game of Christmas Movie Cliche Bingo, share their favorite Christmas movies, and review the newest holiday film to drop of Netflix, 'Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this episode of Carolyn Talks… I had the pleasure of speaking with  Darius Marder , director and co-writer of  Sound of Metal  about how he, his co-writer Abraham Marder, sound editor, and composer Nicholas Becker and their teams created one of the most unique cinematic auditory experiences I’ve ever had. As a viewer, critic, and disabled person experiencing slow hearing loss, i...