Send us a text 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 that incorporates spoken word has turned into not only a successful film , but an ongoing tv series. We get i...
Apr 12, 2023•18 min•Ep. 737
Send us a text 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 find a lead (and it was initially going to be a boy) until he met his young star Milinka Winata , and...
Apr 07, 2023•11 min•Ep. 736
Send us a text 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 misogyny played in their career, how she managed to sift through massive amounts of never before seen archival footage, and t...
Apr 05, 2023•20 min•Ep. 735
Send us a text 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 they met Gena, how they kept their crew safe while filming her in public, and the complications that wer...
Mar 31, 2023•14 min•Ep. 734
Send us a text 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 apprehensions with the film's title, and the difficulty of shooting a scene that involves jello wrestling. Vibrator G...
Mar 29, 2023•27 min•Ep. 733
Send us a text 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 writer/director Zach Braff to discuss the themes of grief, addiction, and the importance of laughter through tea...
Mar 24, 2023•15 min•Ep. 732
Send us a text 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 probably THE MOST a festival can get. Your Bitches landed on the second half of the festival and one of us (not s...
Mar 22, 2023•51 min•Ep. 731
Send us a text 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, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Score, and Best Song. So in other words, best everything ! The Dan...
Mar 10, 2023•36 min
Send us a text 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 Gunnarsdottir , showrunner/writer Pamela Ribon , and lead actor Brie Tilton . In other words, get ready for a Zoom room full of wom...
Mar 09, 2023•12 min
Send us a text 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) footage of them eventually leads to their death. We discuss the wealth of archival footage that Sara had to work with, and what...
Mar 08, 2023•19 min
Send us a text 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 with a boy band called 4 Town, and with that, the ladies at Bitch Talk have never felt more represented by an animated film. Dire...
Mar 07, 2023•22 min
Send us a text 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 coverage for the upcoming South by Southwest Film Festival in March, which will also be our return to Austin, Texas! -- Thanks for listenin...
Mar 01, 2023•42 min•Ep. 730
Send us a text 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 acting career after surviving addiction, incarceration, and abuse. Director Sophia Peer and subject Annie Pisapia join u...
Feb 27, 2023•33 min•Ep. 729
Send us a text 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 bringing her mother's dead body back to her hometown. Director Thanasis Neofotistos explains how grief is expl...
Feb 24, 2023•27 min•Ep. 728
Send us a text 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 entertainment. Director Cat Brewer and one of the film's subjects/EP Matt Maxey join us to talk about the ...
Feb 22, 2023•30 min•Ep. 727
Send us a text 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 colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to justice, and defend the human rights of Indigenous peoples of the Ar...
Feb 20, 2023•27 min•Ep. 726
Send us a text 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 mother, is raising her younger brother while keeping her relationship with a woman a secret in a small h...
Feb 17, 2023•28 min•Ep. 725
Send us a text 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 the repercussions (both good and bad) that this had on her career on her personal life. We sat down with re...
Feb 15, 2023•46 min•Ep. 724
Send us a text Welcome to day 6 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Joined per the usual with our Park City Co-Host, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we highlight two Slamdance documentaries that are centered around artists: The Mad Writer , and With Peter Bradley . The Mad Writer follows hip-hop phenom and music producer L'Orange as he deals with his clinical depression, in addition to finding mysterious tumors in his ear canals that threaten his future in music. We sat down with...
Feb 13, 2023•31 min•Ep. 723
Send us a text Welcome to day 5 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Along with our Park City co-host, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , we're highlighting two Sundance documentaries that deal with current issues around the world and here in the US- Food and Country, and 20 Days in Mariupol. Food and Country follows trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl during her journey to connect with small farmers, ranchers, and chefs, as they try to survive not only during the pandemic, but thro...
Feb 10, 2023•30 min•Ep. 722
Send us a text Welcome to day four of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Today we're getting to know two Slamdance documentaries that tell the story of overlooked or abandoned American towns- Cisco Kid and Motel Drive . Joined as always by our Park City co-host and honorary bitch, John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com . In Cisco Kid , we meet Eileen, who is living alone among the remnants of a deserted ghost town in Cisco, Utah . Director Emily Kaye Allen shares how she met and gained th...
Feb 08, 2023•29 min•Ep. 721
Send us a text Welcome to day three of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage! Today we're bringing you two Sundance documentaries dealing with women's issues that we knew we had to cover, Plan C, and Smoke Sauna Sisterhood. Plan C follows Francine Coeytaux and her team of providers as they find ways to distribute abortion pills across the country during the pandemic, as well as after the fall of Roe V. Wade. Director Tracy Droz Tragos shares how she met Francine and gained her trust, and...
Feb 06, 2023•31 min•Ep. 720
Send us a text It's day 2 of our Sundance/Slamdance Film Festival coverage and today we're sharing three very different, yet powerful Slamdance narrative films. Joined again by our friend & Park City cohort, John Wildman of FilmsGoneWild.com. Mascot follows a frustrated young man whose dangerous actions are endangering not only himself, but his whole family. Director Remy van Heugten shares how this film was an expression of his fear for the younger generation and the long term effects that ...
Feb 03, 2023•44 min•Ep. 719
Send us a text Welcome to Day One of our Sundance and Slamdance Film Festival coverage! We've joined forces again with our dear friend and Honorary Bitch, John Wildman of Films Gone Wild , and we're excited to a share our interviews with two Sundance narrative films that we really loved... First we sit down with director Sing J. Lee to talk about his beautiful film The Accidental Getaway Driver (winner of the Sundance U.S. Dramatic Competition Director Award). The film follows a Vietnamese drive...
Feb 01, 2023•30 min•Ep. 718
Send us a text Welcome to Flashback Friday! With 700+ episodes in our archive, we're excited to revisit some of our favorites with y'all! This week, in celebration of the 11 Oscar nominations for one of our favorite films of 2022, we're throwing back to our interview with the directors and stars of Everything Everywhere All At Once . The Daniels Everything Everywhere All At Once is 2022's best film. Go see it and tell us it is not. This is the most excited we've been about a major action/sci-fi ...
Jan 27, 2023•36 min
Send us a text We had a wild ride in Park City for the 2023 Sundance & Slamdance Film Festivals, and we're sharing some behind the scenes stories that would only happen to these old bitches... Let's just say we fell, we had breakdowns, and we ate puff pastry. So buckle up, enjoy the ride, and be on the lookout for our upcoming festival coverage ! -- Thanks for listening and for your support! We couldn't have reached 10 years and 700 episodes without your help! -- Be well, stay safe, Black Li...
Jan 25, 2023•18 min•Ep. 717
Send us a text Welcome to Sundance 2023! And while we thought for a while that we might not make it, we are here and ready to take Park City by storm. But until that happens, we're sharing the frightening details of our 2 day, 21 hour journey through snow storms, sliding wheels, icy roads, and a car with electrical problems. So sit back, relax, and make sure you have chains in your trunk. Also, we are at the tail end of our Sundance fundraiser . We take off in just a few days but are still in ne...
Jan 23, 2023•48 min•Ep. 716
Send us a text TW, the topic of suicide is brought up during this conversation. We think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship! Chef Catie Randazzo joins us from HBO's The Big Brunch , to talk about why they love being in the kitchen, how they got on the show, and the incredible difference the show has made in their life ever since. Catie shares what it means to be a "recovering pentecostal", coming out as non-binary, and being a self proclaimed flirt. Then we wax poetic about our mutu...
Jan 18, 2023•33 min•Ep. 715
Send us a text Sixth time is a charm for one of our favorite returning guests, Mr. Daveed Diggs. He's our emotional support human and we are so thrilled that he is our first interview episode of the new year. Normally we have Daveed on promoting a film or TV show, but this time we got to shoot the shit a bit and dig in to his music project Clipping - which is described as American experimental hip hop group and has been around since 2009. We also dish on a couple of his upcoming film and TV proj...
Jan 13, 2023•35 min•Ep. 714
Send us a text Hey there! Happy new year! 2023 marks our 10th year in podcasting and we're so excited to share this major milestone with you. Earlier this week we sat together in studio and recorded our first Basic Bitch of this year. In this episode we talk about our Sundance fundraiser that is going on right now. It costs upwards of $6K to cover both the Sundance and Slamdance film festivals (both go on at the same time in Park City, Utah) and as an independent podcast, this is a big stretch f...
Jan 11, 2023•43 min•Ep. 713
