Ep. 5.20 - Kristi Jacobson
Episode description
Nate is back and talks about this week's Philly Music Fest and Inside Hustle networking event before sitting down with Emmy award winning filmmaker Kristi Jacobson, director of the new Max documentary Louder: The Soundtrack of Change. They talk about Kristi's connection to Philadelphia, growing up in New York, how studying Sociology at Duke led her to direct documentaries, her first film American Standoff, getting her start on documentary sets, the genesis of Louder, choosing who to showcase in the doc, Linda Ronstadt, the challenges of African Americans in the genre of country, Kathleen Hanna, the Tracy Chapman/Luke Combs Grammys performance, the use of duality in the film, and honoring our ancestors, both past and present. Then, Kristi steps up to The Jawntlet.