Send us a text We're so happy to bring you this inspirational conversation with director/talent Kirsten D'Andrea Hollander and cinematographer/talent Danisha Harris of the Slamdance documentary Anatomy of Wings . The film tells the story of an after school program that follows 10 young black women for 12 years as they come of age in Baltimore City. We get into the importance of giving kids a space to talk, the difficulties of following 10 different lives for 12 years, and how the line between me...
Mar 02, 2021•24 min•Ep. 534
Send us a text We're so lucky that Slamdance has provided some deep conversations about race, culture, and community with filmmakers. This interview with director, actor, writer, and film professor Skinner Myers is nothing short of all of these topics and more. The Sleeping Negro tells the story of a young Black man confronted with a series of racially charged incidents, who must overcome rage, alienation, and hopelessness in order to find his own humanity. Skinner, who plays the main character ...
Feb 26, 2021•36 min•Ep. 533
Send us a text We're bringing you another Slamdance conversation with Jason Polevoi , director of the documentary A Tiny Ripple of Hope . This powerful doc follows a tumultuous year in the life of Jahmal Cole , the founder and Executive Director of My Block, My Hood, My City , a non-profit that provides underprivileged Chicago youth with an awareness of the world and opportunities beyond their neighborhood. We discuss the effects of segregation in Chicago, the power of community, the downside of...
Feb 25, 2021•19 min•Ep. 532
Send us a text We have another Basic Bitch for your ass, covering everything from the impeachment trial, preparing for our first SXSW, attacks on the AAPI community that have been in an uptick across our country, to an exciting new segment for our show. What do Rush Limbaugh and Baby Yoda have in common? You'll have to take a listen to find out. -- Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. -- Buy us a cup of coffee ! Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind ...
Feb 19, 2021•47 min•Ep. 531
Send us a text Next stop, Slamdance y'all! Our first interview during the film festival for filmmakers by filmmakers is with director Chelsea Christer and band member of The Matches , Justin San Souci. In this interview, they talk about their documentary Bleeding Audio , which follows the journey of a band out of Oakland, Ca. called The Matches . The incredible footage they have of the band as they grow up in the music industry sets the stage for the journey they take as the industry turns to di...
Feb 18, 2021•20 min•Ep. 530
Send us a text It's our Sundance 2021 wrap-up with our honorary Bitches John Wildman and Justina Walford of FilmsGoneWild.com. We talk the pros and cons of attending a virtual event (we missed being in Park City, but we are not complaining about doing interviews in our pajamas), our favorite interviews, which film has left us scarred for life, and spill some serious tea on what it's like to work with some of the more difficult publicists. A HUGE thank you to Sundance, we'll (hopefully) see you a...
Feb 12, 2021•42 min•Ep. 529
Send us a text We're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. In this episode, we're proud to bring you filmmakers and stories exclusively from the Bay! We're joined with the cast and crew from the films Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir , Homeroom , and Marvelous and the Black Hole . Producer Cassandra Jabola from Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir , discusses the cultural impact of Amy Tan, and the importance of representa...
Feb 11, 2021•56 min•Ep. 528
Send us a text We're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. Happy hump day, ya'll! In this Episode, we are with the crew from First Date , One For the Road , and Pleasure , three films that will take you for a ride in more ways than one! In First Date , we're joined by director Manuel Crosby , producer/talent Brandon Kraus , and stars Tyson Brown , and Shelby Duclos . We get into filming shootouts and violen...
Feb 10, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 527
Send us a text We're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance partner-in-crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. In this Episode, we're joined by the cast and crew from the documentaries Bring Your Own Brigade , Rebel Hearts , and A Concerto is a Conversation . Emmy-winning director Lucy Walker shares her journey digging into the complicated history of California wildfires in Bring Your Own Brigade (spoiler alert: we can't blame everything on global warming). ...
Feb 09, 2021•58 min•Ep. 526
Send us a text We're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance Partner-In-Crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. In this episode, we're joined with the cast and crew from the films The Blazing World , Strawberry Mansion , and We're All Going to the World's Fair , all thriller/sci-fi films that will leave you debating the difference between dreams and reality. In The Blazing World , we speak with director Carlson Young and star Vinessa Shaw about the the connec...
Feb 08, 2021•55 min•Ep. 525
Send us a text We're here at Sundance 2021 (virtually) joined by our honorary Bitch and Sundance Partner-In-Crime John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. In this Episode, we are with the crew from My Name is Pauli Murray and Playing with Sharks , two documentaries that cover powerhouse women! In Betsy West and Julie Cohen 's documentary, Pauli Murray gets her long overdue moment to shine. As a non-binary black activist, lawyer, and poet born in 1910, her life helped pave the way for the likes of Rosa...
Feb 05, 2021•40 min•Ep. 524
Send us a text We've been virtually covering the Sundance Film Fest for the last week or so and wanted to check-in with our friend, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild . Normally we'd be in a room with John co-hosting a show called The Festival Daily Buzz for a local Park City, Utah radio station, but this year, since we're sheltering in place, we're Sundanc-ing as our respective outlets. Sit back and enjoy our thoughts on the realities of watching a film festival movie at home when you're sharing s...
Feb 03, 2021•36 min•Ep. 523
Send us a text Third times a charm, y'all. We're back at the Sundance Film Festival, virtually of course, and we're starting it off with a local story directed by San Franciscan Debbie Lum. Her film, Try Harder! focus's on a handful of Lowell High School - a public school that kids have to test into - and their (and sometimes parents) obsession with getting into Ivy League colleges. The film made us think about our high school experiences and appreciate that our parents didn't pressure us about ...
Jan 29, 2021•26 min•Ep. 522
Send us a text Erin and Ange sit down with Erika Cohn, director of the documentary Belly of the Beast , a film that follows the fight against the illegal sterilization of women in prison . While this documentary has been 10 years in the making, it all started when she became a volunteer at the Oakland based organization Justice Now , which fights to provide social justice for women in prison. We get into the back stories of film's main subjects, Kelli Dillon , and Cynthia Chandler , and the dark...
Jan 27, 2021•21 min•Ep. 521
Send us a text We're baaaaaaaaaack. So much to talk about and not enough time... Why does it feel like we've already lived a full year and it's only mid-January? Maybe Dr. Fauci can answer that? Anyway, we've got your first Basic Bitch ready for your 2021 ears and man, do we get IN TO IT. We watched the fuck outta the inauguration and have a lot of thoughts about the day and festivities. We're trying to figure out how to get our elderly family members the Covid vaccine, figured out that Ange req...
Jan 22, 2021•53 min•Ep. 520
Send us a text Hello Bitch Talkers and welcome to our first official recording of 2021. We're not wasting any time and catching up with our friend of the show, Sophia Andary, who's running for a delegate spot in Assembly District 19. We met Sophia in 2018 when she came on the podcast to talk abut her role in San Francisco Women's March as well as to promote the event. We've stayed in touch with Sophia over the last few years and have been able to watch her growth in the community: She was nomina...
Jan 21, 2021•55 min•Ep. 519
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). As we're preparing to participate in Sundance 2021 virtually, we thought it'd be a good time to take you back to our first time at Sundance in 2019. This was recorded after our second full day of round the clock interviews, press lines, red carpets, and after parties...and we are exhausted, delirious, running on adrenalin...
Jan 15, 2021•26 min
Send us a text Hey Bitch Talkers! We're headed (virtually) to Sundance 2021!! Thought we would officially share the good news. We're excited to be invited back for our third year in a row and to bring you some familiar and not so familiar voices! Before we get into Sundance 2021, let's head back to Sundance 2020 when Erin and our honorary bitch, John Wildman (from our Festival Daily Buzz team) talk with esteemed director Steve James and subjects Dr. Amara Enyia and Maze Jackson from the episodic...
Jan 13, 2021•14 min•Ep. 518
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). We're headed back to Park City for a Sundance Film Festival 2020 conversation with director Ramona Diaz and musician Ruby Ibarra from the documentary A Thousand Cuts. A Thousand Cuts is an important and timely documentary about the trials and tribulations of Maria Ressa , prominent journalist and founder of Rappler , the ...
Jan 08, 2021•20 min
Send us a text Our first episode of the year features our new friend of the show, director Melissa Haizlip. Her film, Mr. Soul, features her uncle, Ellis Haizlip - a queer, Black, television producer and host of the first known Black variety show called Soul out of New York City. We talk with Melissa in depth about the importance of the show Soul that ran from 1968 - 1973 on PBS stations across the country, James Baldwin, Black culture, Lenny Kravitz, poetry, the magic of Robert Glasper, and mor...
Jan 06, 2021•56 min•Ep. 517
Send us a text Somehow we have made it to the end of 2020. This year's been too real and the year that can't stop/won't stop decided to come at us hard during the holidays. In our last Basic Bitch of 2020, we talk about co-host Angela's father, Tony Tabora, who passed away unexpectedly a couple of weeks after Thanksgiving. Tony was a surprise guest on our 500th episode event back in October and we thought it only fitting to honor him and his spirit in our last podcast episode of the year. We kno...
Dec 28, 2020•17 min•Ep. 516
Send us a text As they say, third time is a charm and we're so happy to bring y'all our last interview of 2020 with Bill and Turner Ross. We met the fellas earlier in the year at the Sundance Film Festival and they haven't been able to get rid of us since. We catch up with the Ross brothers to see how the rest of their pandemic year has gone, if they're starting any new projects, how New Orleans is doing this far into COVID, what are they doing (if anything) for the holidays, and more. We absolu...
Dec 21, 2020•23 min•Ep. 515
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). We've hand picked this episode to balance out this weeks other episode with Brianna Noble from Mulatto Meadows . The Rider is a beautiful, American, cowboy story with so much compassion and gorgeous cinematography it will make your heart burst! Listen in as we sit down with Director Chloe Zhao and Actor Brady Jandreau to ...
Dec 18, 2020•25 min
Send us a text We had the good fortune to welcome one of the most noteworthy person of 2020, East Bay native, Brianna Noble. Brianna is the owner of Mulatto Meadows which is located in Martinez and also heads the non-profit Humble that uses horses to as a medium to inspire positive futures. We talk with Brianna about her inspiration to get on her horse, Dapper Dan, back in May and ride during one of Oakland's biggest George Floyd protests, how horses are mood detectors, how the 2009 death of Osc...
Dec 14, 2020•26 min•Ep. 514
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). We've hand picked this episode to compliment our recent interview with the star of the film Jimmie Fails . We've got ALL.THE.FEELS. for the movie The Last Black Man In San Francisco . Bitch Talk could not have asked for a better film to depict the reality of gentrification in San Francisco and its effect on black and brow...
Dec 12, 2020•18 min
Send us a text The three amigos are back at what they do best - Basic Bitching. Will Ange finally get on a dating app? What's it like doing shrooms for the first time? Ange's ongoing knee injury, how to handle taking care of aging parents, and more. We hope you all enjoy us getting back to basics. Thanks for listening! Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, and thank you for wearing a mask. -- Buy us a cup of coffee ! Subscribe to our channel on YouTube for behind the scenes footage! Rate and r...
Dec 09, 2020•36 min•Ep. 513
Send us a text We last spoke with Jimmie Fails at the red carpet premiere of The Last Black Man in San Francisco , and have been wanting him back on the show ever since! No topic is off the table as we Basic Bitch with him about his quick rise to fame, his favorite places in San Francisco, how he celebrated his best birthday ever (while social distancing during a pandemic!), his music career, and how learning to be vulnerable changed his life. All while he strolls through San Francisco's panhand...
Dec 07, 2020•30 min•Ep. 512
Send us a text Welcome to Flash Back Friday! With 500+ episodes, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with our new listeners (and maybe new to our regular listeners). Like many of you, we've been obsessively watching The Queen's Gambit , so we thought it would be fitting to bring back this interview with Anya Taylor-Joy from March of 2018. In this episode, Ange (Captain Party) sits down with Director Cory Finley & Actress Anya Taylor-Joy of the film Thoroughbreds . They talk about ...
Dec 04, 2020•12 min
Send us a text Hey there! We're giving you some basic bitching straight from the mountains. Captain Party and Erin have hunkered down to hibernate, eat, drink, and exhale. Let's get into The Queen's Gambit (streaming on Netflix), hot tubbing, Captain Party's knee injury update, fart rooms, and more. Hope you all are doing well and got some necessary down time over the holiday week/weekend. Thanks for listening! Be well, stay safe, Black Lives Matter, thank you for wearing a mask. -- Buy us a cup...
Dec 02, 2020•28 min•Ep. 511
Send us a text In our first (and not last!) interview with SF comedian Arthur Gaus, we chat about his 20- year comedy career, having a daughter right after the Covid lockdown started, recording his first comedy album right before shelter in place, juke boxes, dive bars, and more. Arthur is a true blue San Franciscan and we were incredibly giddy to talk to him about the ever changing landscape of the city we love. Go support Arthur and his comedy album - Nice Jokes for Smart People on Spotify, Pa...
Nov 30, 2020•47 min•Ep. 510
