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Ariel speaks with Shengzhe Zhu about her film A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, a landscape documentary of Wuhan, China in the early days of the 2020 pandemic.

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Laura Plancarte, documentary filmmaker, stops by to discuss her film Non Western, a chronicle of one couple's intercultural anxieties as they head to the altar.

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Ariel sits down with fellow journalist and critic Andrew Pope of Whitlock & Pope to discuss all things South by Southwest, from shorts to features, documentaries to animated films, genre to drama, and everything in between.

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Ariel sits down with Oscar winner Phillip Bladh to discuss the sound achievements of one of the year’s finest films, Sound of Metal.

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Ariel talks with stop-motion animator Bara Anna Stejskalova about her deliciously macabre tale of love and decay, Love is Just a Death Away.

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Ariel talks with Lee Haven Jones and Roger Williams, creators of The Feast, a new Welsh-language horror film that had its premiere at SXSW 2021. It's a story rooted in lore and legend, with a deeply embedded message about what we owe to the land from which we come.

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Nicholas Bruckman and Amanda Roddy stop by to talk about their film, Not Going Quietly, centered on the life of Ady Barkan, a prominent disability advocate working for healthcare reform across America.

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Ariel sits down with Mickey Keating, director of Off Season, which saw its premiere at SXSW this year. The film is a  Lovecraftian take on a Florida beach town that shuts down for the season, and the conversation ranges from everything from cult film to Ingmar Bergman to parental relationships.

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Ariel sits down with director Nick Gillespie to discuss his new horror-comedy Paul Dood's Deadly Lunch Break, a hilarious and gory film that also serves as a commentary on accessibility, internet celebrity, and what it means to be an outsider.

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Ariel sits down with the creators, writers, and directors of 4 Feet High, Maria Belen Poncio, Rosario Perazolo Masjoan. The story of Juana, a wheelchair-using senior in highschool, who explores her sexuality and protests for her right to a better education.

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