Radical Films

What if masculinity isn’t something you are, but something you’ve been taught to perform? In this episode, Andy Motz joins us to discuss MASC, a documentary that turns the camera back on identity, inheritance, and the possibility of unlearning.

What happens when people from completely different worlds are brought together on the same river? Brett Hochmuth joins us to discuss A Little Bit Different, a documentary about connection, transformation, and what emerges when we step outside our everyday lives.

A conversation with Micha Espinosa and Sara Matchett on Lamentation at the Liesbeek, a film that traces how colonial histories linger in landscape, memory, and everyday life along Cape Town’s riverbanks. We explore how the film turns terrain into testimony, where sound, image, and absence reveal a past that refuses to stay buried.

A powerful conversation on land, labor, and legacy. Join us as filmmakers and activists Maria Fernandez and Maricela Santana-Walle unpack The Price of Plenty, a documentary that brings the hidden costs of agricultural abundance into sharp focus. From environmental injustice to community resilience, this episode asks what it really means to live with the consequences of “plenty.”

Kenzie Bruce joins Radical Films to discuss Firebreak—a powerful look at wildfire, labor, and survival in an era of environmental collapse. We dive into the ethics of representation, the lived realities behind the lens, and what it means to document history as it unfolds in real time.

In our latest episode, we are joined by filmmaker Israel Brooks of Fast Fire Films. Listen as we discuss his work as a filmmaker and immigrant rights advocate, as well as his forthcoming film Spanish Class (2026). 

In this episode, we are joined by Seattle University professor and documentary filmmaker Alex Johnston. Listen as we discuss film and media activism, films about the prison industrial complex, and his latest documentary work. 

In this episode, we are joined by Lara Jacoski of Bemtevi Productions, based in Brazil. Listen as we discuss her film and media work capturing the stories of indigenous people, including her recent film Eskawata Kayawai (co-directed with Patrick Belem). 

In this episode, we sit down with Miami-based Italian filmmaker Jacopo Fantastichini to discuss his recent film A Healing Revolution, a documentary film exploring the work of "Doctors within Borders" and their care and support to Miami's unhoused. 

In this episode we speak to artist/animator E.T. Russian and playwright/performer Edward Mast and discuss their film Sweep Dreams, a 7 minute animated dream of displacement and apocalypse.