Past Guests Round-Up 10/8/2021
Even though we are not bringing you a new episode this week, our past guests have been doing some big things in the world and we wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate them and encourage you to revisit some of those conversations. So let’s get to it!
Check out the web page for Episode 30’s guest Ina Finchman and her latest film The Gig Is Up. Look at the “Take Action Page” to find out ways you support those who work in the gig economy.
Episode 29’s Ann Kaneko & Jin Yoo-Kim are going strong with their project Manzanar Diverted. They had an incredible LA premiere at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival last month. And they are doing a series of special screenings with AARP between now and November.
Episode 27’s Ashley O’Shay’s film Unapologetic is screening as part of the Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema for those who want to see it in Canada and it will have its Taiwan premiere at the Women Make Waves International Film Festival! And remember, Ashley did some of the camera work on Surviving R. Kelly, and we all know where he’s going to spend the rest of his life. So Boo-yah.
Episode 23’s Robert Chang is the Coordinating Producer at American Documentary which has programmed the films of three of our past guests for POV’s Season 34. Episode 2’s Emily Cohen Ibañez and Ashley Solis’ Fruits of Labor had its premiere this Monday! Yay! Chester Argenal and Elegance Bratton who were on Episode 16, had their premiere of Pier Kids air earlier this year. Ashley O’Shay’s Unapologetic will premiere on December 27.
Congratulations to Episode 21 guest, April Dobbins! She is the new director of programming at the Coral Gables Art Cinema which is one of Miami’s most popular art-house theaters. She will be the first Sistah to hold that position in any movie theater in South Florida!
One half of the dynamic duo of Episode 19, Day Al-Mohammed was featured in an article in RealScreen where she discusses the importance of disability inclusion.
Episode 18’s Chloe Walters Wallace was promoted to Firelight Media’s Director of Regional Initiatives and she is on fire! Not only is she heading Firelight’s Hindsight series which we discussed in her interview but she is overseeing Homegrown: Future Visions which will be a new collection of digital non-fiction short films by emerging BIPOC filmmakers living in the American Midwest. Submissions are open now!
Episode 12’s Bo McGuire’s Socks on Fire won Best Documentary at the Nashville Film Festival!
The New Orleans Film Festival will run from November 5-21 with in-person and virtual events. Learn more about the history of the festival by listening to Episode 8 with the festival's Executive Director, Fallon Young.
Episode 7’s Dante Alencastre’s film AIDS Diva: The Legend of Connie Norman has been everywhere! It won the Documentary Feature Audience Award at the Queer Screen Film Fest in Australia and will screen as part of NewFest in New York later this month.
And last but not least, big congrats to Episode 5 guest and friend and mentor Ani Mercedes, who after months of meticulous planning pulled off her virtual all-day “Film Impact-in-a-Day!” I know this was a huge lift and you did it Girl!
