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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, and what exciting events and films we have to look forward to. We also discuss the evolution of Asian American representation, how she takes her role as a gatekeeper very seriously, and the importance of community. We are so excited about this year's CAAMFEST lineup of events, and hope to see you there! 

Bitch Talk is a proud Community Partner of the following two CAAMFEST events, we hope to see you there!

Jeanette Lee VS

Directions in Sound: Fanny and Friends

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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 should I care?  Well, Rose was an interesting character - immigrant to the states, started out as a journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle, then turned herself into a political powerhouse, activist, and shit disturber. It's a complicated life but an interesting one and director Rooth Tang was a great choice to tell her story. In this live interview, Erin talks to the director and producer about Rooth's invovlement in telling Rose's story (Rooth is from Southern California), how did Rose's story unfold into a full length documentary, and what do they think Rose would think about this film if she was still alive.  

As San Franciscan's and AAPI Americans, we have a complicated relationship with Rose Pak, and thankfully there are films like this to shine a light on all of her work that ultimately shows how much of a fighter Rose was for Chinese Americans. 

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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 ramifications for all of Indian country. This story was an eye opener on so many levels and Erin talked with the directors about how this story came to light, how did Joe (not of the Muscogee Nation) fit in as part of the crew, how Angel is doing (the rogue reporter who is 100% a bad Bitch!), and why the Muscogee political machine was not always wanting the camera on them while Rebecca and Joe were peeling back the onion of this documentary in real time. 

Bad Press is why we need documentaries. So thankful that SFFilm picked it up after seeing it at this years Sundance.  If you see it roll through your local film festival, buy a ticket and bring some friends. 

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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  and starts to live.  Erin sits down to talk with Lorena about the personal story connected to this script, the brilliant casting of the lead actor (played by Francisco Reyes), how they shot in Mexico during the height of the pandemic, and more.

If you'd like to support SFFilm all year long you can do so here

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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 and local filmmakers in this years festival, what draws her to documentaries, how programming around the country is vastly different in every city,  and how much Bitch Talk and Jessie love the Film Independent Spirit Awards (bring them back to TV!!)

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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 important your ride or dies are in every stage of life, and maybe Captain Party puts Erin on the spot in front of Zoe with a question about life. Cool. 

Thanks to Zoe for hopping back on the mic with us. If you haven't heard our first interview with her, it was way back in 2017 to talk about her film Band Aid which you can find on most streaming platforms. It is a delightful film to watch and you get treated to Zoe's beautiful singing voice. Listen to that interview here. 

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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 beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Mother of the Dawn is a short film about a female truck driver in Brazil who started having visions of extraterrestrials in the 1950s. These visions led her to start her own community/religion of followers that has over 800,000 members, yet is still relatively unheard of. We were joined by director Janell Shirtcliff and producer Daisy O'Dell, and while our conversation definitely discusses the importance of their short film and how much they cherish this community of people and their beliefs, it also ventures off into the unknown (in the best way possible). We hope that you'll enjoy listening to this conversation as much as we enjoyed having it!

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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 with an open bar. Enjoy!

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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 into her apprehension to direct (and a how a sweet exchange between Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs changed her mind), why she takes her work so seriously in regards to representation, and how the supportive vibe on set is reflected in the quality of the show.

Blindspotting Season 2 premieres on April 14th on Starz

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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 some fun behind the scenes stories about filming a young child in New York.

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