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Documentarian Will Battersby and his subject, Diane Shader Smith, discuss the life and words of Mallory Smith, a cystic fibrosis patient who lived longer than anyone expected, but kept a secret diary that chronicled her illness and the toll it took on her mental health. The conversation ranges from patient advocacy to mental health awareness to the best ways to effect change in the medical community.

SALT IN MY SOUL will be released theatrically in New York (Cinema Village) and Los Angeles (Laemmle Royal) on January 21 followed by the VOD Release in the US, Canada, and UK & Ireland and key territories worldwide on January 25.

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In this episode, Ariel speaks with the people directly responsible for the brilliant comic timing of Ted Lasso - the editors, A.J. Catoline and Melissa McCoy.

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Ariel sits down for another interview with a documentary filmmaker and their subject, this time with filmmaker Nefise Özkal Lorentzen, and Seyran Ates, the Nobel Peace prize-nominated subject of her documentary,  Seyran Ates: Sex, Revolution, and Islam.

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According to Unesco, a human language disappears every two weeks. Within a century,  50 to 90 percent of all languages will be gone. Does it matter?  Spoiler alert: Yes. Ariel interviews both documentary filmmaker Sandrine Loncke and her subject, Florian Lionnet. They discuss how language encodes culture and worldviews, and the threat to our humanity when languages are lost.

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Ariel has a chat with Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks, the directors and star of the new horror movie, Alone With You, that played recently at Fantastic Fest.

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In a new weekend series exploring horror titles, Ariel sits down with filmmaker Aaron Bartuska to discuss his new horror film, For Roger, in the first installment of Sunday Bloody Sunday.

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Ariel sits down with Melissa Haizlip to discuss her new documentary exploring the first nationally broadcast all-Black variety show on public television, Ellis Haizlip's SOUL!

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Ariel sits down with Ashley O'Shay, director of the new documentary, Unapologetic, about two Black women advocating for justice in Chicago on behalf of countless Black victims of police violence.

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This one goes out to all the teachers who deserve our thanks in the pandemic. Director Neasa Ni Chianáin discusses her new film about a school that is turning around the lives of at-risk kids through the use of philosophy. Young Plato is a film not about the questions that matter, but about why questions matter.

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Ariel and Rabia discuss the current state of environmental policy around climate change with Tom Bowman, author of Empowering Climate Action.

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