Our conversation this week is with Nina Parikh - Director of the Mississippi Film Office, filmmaker, producer of Sundance award-winning film 'Ballast', and child of Mississippi.

Listen to us talk about a timeless love story, searching for and deepening roots, the making of 'Ballast' and loving words from Roger Ebert, launching a career in Eudora Welty's living room, 25 years of connecting the world & Mississippi through film, how to get stuff done in a polarized world, belonging and not being enough of anything, and seeing the story in everything.

Location: Mississippi Film Office; Woolfolk State Office Building | Jackson, MS

Mississippi Film Office website

Watch Ballast

Watch The Inspection

Watch Eudora Welty interview about 'A Worn Path' (Feb. 21, 1994)

Rogert Ebert's review for Ballast : "The very life of life" (Oct. 29, 2008)

Selected passages from The Sante Fe and Taos Colonies: Age of the Muses by Arrell Gibson