Gina Duncan leads up the film department at BAM. We discuss BAMcinemaFest which runs from June 12th through the 23rd. Also a conversation with documentary filmmaker Rick Rowley about his new film, "16 Shots", about the 2014 Chicago police shooting of Laquan McDonald and the subsequent cover-up. The Showtime broadcast premieres 6/14.

The second in a series of interviews with graduates of the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Film Program. This one is with the filmmaker Amy Hesketh ("Olalla", "Beardbath") who is a recent graduate, an adjunct film teacher at Olympic College in Washington, and one of the filmmakers at Pachamama Films.

Another episode with Dispatches from Tribeca Film Festival 2019: filmmaker and actor Mark Webber returns with his fifth feature, "A Place With No Words"; and the filmmaking team behind the new archive documentary about musician Shannon Hoon: Danny Clinch, Taryn Gould & Colleen Hennessy.

Robert Longstreet returns to the podcast to discuss his career as a working actor, his current work on the Netflix original series "The Haunting of Hill House" and the upcoming "Shining" series, "Doctor Sleep" which was written by Stephen King.

First of the Dispatches From the Tribeca Film Festival 2019: returning to the podcast filmmaker Davy Rothbart ("Medora") with a new documentary, 20 years in the making, called "17 Blocks", and an also returning Marshall Curry (""Street Fight") with his first narrative film, a short, called "The Neighbor's Window". Both films premiered at the Tribeca.

As part of a special partnership with the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Film Program, Filmwax Radio is proud to introduce a number of alums to the show. The first up in this series if the filmmaker George Nicholas who, in addition to his film work, teaches cinematography and film production at Hofstra University in Long Island, NY.

Sir Kenneth Branagh comes on to discuss his playing Shakespeare in "All Is True" which opens on Friday, May 10th in New York & Los Angeles; actor and theater company owner Paul Lazar returns for his third visit to the podcast. He has a new production that he is performing which involves dance and spoken word called "Cage Shuffle". Sponsored by Jett Sets.

The author of a new book on the classic Sam Peckinpah western, called "The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018); the co-hosts of the film podcast Oeuvre Busters, Liam Billingham & George Fragopoulos.

Documentary filmmaker Sam Green remembers his friend Bill Siegel and discusses his upcoming live documentary event, "A Thousand Thoughts"; and filmmaker Doug Block returns for his third visit to discuss his film "Home Page" which is having its 20th anniversary and is available for streaming for the first time as well as on DVD.

Giancarlo Esposito {"Breaking Bad", "Better Call Saul") is in a movie musical called "Stuck" about a diverse group of people stuck in a NYC subway car together. The film opens nationwide on Friday, 4/19. Then the filmmaker Marilyn Ness stops by to discuss "Charm City" her documentary about Baltimore which has its broadcast premiere on Independent Lens on Monday, 4/22.