Resilience is the word that connects my two guests today, Leslie Ann Coles, the founder and executive and artistic director of The Female Eye Film Festival and filmmaker, J. Christian Hamilton, the host of CIUT's Dementia 13. Resilience is the theme emerged from the films programmed at FeFF this year and the word describes Christian who needs to forge ahead with her next film project, while dealing with a shattered wrist and the resulting obstacles to getting her project off the ground.

The Female Eye Film Festival runs October 14-19. Full disclosure, CIUT is a sponsor of the festival and I'm doing some behind the Scenes work for the festival. I've interviewed Leslie Ann in previous years when I had no connection to the festival, so this is my usual chat about what audiences can look forward to seeing this year, and what's new at the festival.

Christian and I have been programmers at CIUT for years, so I know her work as a DJ and as a host of her psychedelic show Dementia 13, but this was my first time getting to know her as J. Christian Hamilton, filmmaker. Like a fascinating Q and A, I get to share with you her journey and her films, and her GoFundMe appeal for assistance on her latest project, Dogs of Mercy Park.