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Carolyn Talks 'How the West Was One' with Filmmaker Razieme Iborra
Carolyn Talks Podcast - July 08, 2024 18:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWriter and Director Razieme Iborra joined Carolyn Talks..., to chat about recontextualizing the idea of what a "Cowgirl" is in her documentary HOW THE WEST WAS ONE. In the film, Razieme follows three young women, Elle, Annie, and Morgan as they define what being a 'Cowgirl' means to them, and th...
TorontoJFF 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'Tsugaru Lacquer Girl' with Director Tsuruoka Keiko
Carolyn Talks Podcast - July 02, 2024 20:54 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor Carolyn Talks..., I spoke with director Tsuruoka Keiko about her film TSUGARU LACQUE GIRL starring Hotta Mayu as Miyako, a young woman who doesn't let her shyness and the doubts of others deter her from achieving her dream to be a professional Tsugaru-nuri lacquer artisan. #TsugaruLacquerGi...
Carolyn Talks 'Love, Jamie' with Producer Andrew Fredericks
Carolyn Talks Podcast - June 25, 2024 01:01 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode of #CarolynTalks, I speak with Producer Andrew Fredericks about the documentary short LOVE, JAMIE directed by Karla Murthy. The film shares some of the experiences of Jamie Diaz, a transgender female artist who used whatever tools available to her in prison to create amazing pain...
Toronto JFF 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'Matched' with Filmmaker Uchida Eiji
Carolyn Talks Podcast - June 18, 2024 23:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDuring the 2024 Toronto Japanese Film Festival, filmmaker and author Uchida Eiji 内田英治, joined me to chat a bit about his mystery MATCHED (マッチング), starring Tsuchiya Tao as a wedding planner who makes a dangerous match on a dating app. Based on his Novel "Matching", the film had its North America...
Pride 2024
Read This Next! - June 06, 2024 04:00 - 27 minutesLooking for LGBTQ+ books of all genres? This week's episode has it all!
HotDocs 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'Death of a Saint' with Documentary Filmmaker Patricia Bbaale Bandak
Carolyn Talks Podcast - May 09, 2024 12:49 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFilmmaker Patricia Bbaale Bandak, joined me for Carolyn Talks Podcast, to chat about her documentary DEATH OF A SAINT, which is a personal visual diary to her late mother Imelda who was killed when Patricia was a child, and her own daughter Imelda. In the film, Patricia journeys from her home in...
HotDocs 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'So This is Christmas' with Documentary Filmmaker Ken Wardrop
Carolyn Talks Podcast - May 07, 2024 13:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWriter and Director Ken Wardrop spoke with me about his new film #SoThisIsChristmas, a documentary about what Christmas, a time meant to be about communal support and happiness means to regular people for whom the holiday has become a burden to live up to social standards they can't meet or affo...
Carolyn Talks '7 Beats Per Minute' with Filmmaker Yuqi Kang and Free Diver Jessea Lu
Carolyn Talks Podcast - May 04, 2024 17:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor #CarolynTalks, filmmaker Yuqi Lu, and champion free diver Jessea Lu joined me to chat about their documentary 7 BEATS PER MINUTE, in which audiences are given a unique in depth into what it takes for Jessea to push her physical and mental limits to reach record breaking depth. #7BeatsPerMin...
HotDocs 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'XiXi' with Documentary Filmmaker Fan Wu
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 30, 2024 00:48 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn my interview for #CarolynTalks with filmmaker Fan Wu, we discussed knowing one's self and be freeing that knowledge takes everyone years to achieve, and for multimedia artist Wanru 'XiXi' Yang, being a singer, dancer, composer, world traveler, and mother, and daughter it's a difficult journey...
Hot Docs 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'A Mother Apart' with Filmmaker Laurie Townshend
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 26, 2024 19:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor her feature documentary debut with A MOTHER APART, filmmaker Laurie Townshend followed poet, orator, LGBTQ+ advocate, and feminist activist Staceyann Chin over 6 years as she sought answers on why her mother abandoned her as a child in Jamaica, and making intentional efforts to correct past ...
Carolyn Talks 'Mad Props' with Documentary Filmmaker Juan Reinoso
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 17, 2024 22:21 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFilmmaker Juan Reinoso joined me to chat about his feature documentary MAD PROPS which takes an in-depth look into the world of amateur collecting and professional curation of some of the world's most valuable, rear, beloved and popular film props, costumes, and set pieces. To find out where yo...
Carolyn Talks 'With Love and a Major Organ' with Actors Anna Maguire and Hamza Haq
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 12, 2024 13:20 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsn this episode of Carolyn Talks Podcast, Anna Maguire and Hamza Haq joined me to talk about what love means to them and their characters in the new whimsical and slightly Sci-Fi emotional coming-of-age drama WITH LOVE AND A MAJOR ORGAN written by Julia Lederer and directed by Kim Albright. Find...
Carolyn Talks 'Los Mosquitos' with Filmmaker Nicole Chi and Composer Diego Rojas
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 10, 2024 16:45 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsWriter and director Nicole Chi, along with composer Diego Rojas, joined me to chat about crafting the sound of the story of LOS MOSQUITOS, Nicole's narrative short film about two young girls,15-year-old Aby, and her younger cousin Nata learning to create their own bond in the city of Austin, as ...
Forest of Reading
Read This Next! - April 05, 2024 14:00 - 25 minutesCheck out this year's Forest of Reading Nominees with Nicole and Laura! Mystery, sci-fi, cli-fi, and more!
Carolyn Talks 'Unbraided with Writer and Director Caroline Renard
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 03, 2024 20:05 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode of Carolyn Talks Podcast & YouTube Channel, I speak with writer and director Caroline Renard about making her first independent short film UNBRAIDED. We discussed wanting control of the narratives she creates being her inspiration to pursue directing, and how that need to have co...
Carolyn Talks 'We Are Not Alone' with Writer and Director Adebukola "Buki" Bodunrin
Carolyn Talks Podcast - April 01, 2024 15:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor her first live-action short film WE ARE NOT ALONE, writer, director, and animation artist Adebukola "Buki" Bodunrin, joined me for this episode of Caroln Talks..., during which we spoke about learning to find connection in the cosmos and the people around us, and her use of laser etching on ...
SXSW 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story' with Filmmakers Michael Mabott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 26, 2024 21:26 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode of Carolyn Talks Podcast, filmmakers Michael Mabott and Lucah Rosenberg-Lee about their documentary biopic ANY OTHER WAY: THE JACKIE SHANE STORY, uncovering the life of Jackie Shane, a transgender performer who broke barriers and stereotypes from her childhood in Nashville, to si...
Carolyn Talks 'Mamifera' with Writer and Director Liliana Torres
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 24, 2024 15:34 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor Carolyn Talks..., Writer and Director Liliana Torres spoke with me about her latest feature film MAMIFERA in which the female protagonist Lola (#MariaRodríguezSoto) experiences a bit of an existential crisis with an unplanned pregnancy. Liliana and I spoke of the power in women choosing not ...
SXSW 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'The Black Sea' with the Creative Team
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 15, 2024 16:03 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsActor-director Derrick B. Harden, co-director Crystal Moselle, and producer Izabella Tsenkova joined #CarolynTalks to chat about finding the order in chaos during the making of their unscripted feature about Khalid (Harden), a Brooklyn native learning to adapt to his chaotic circumstances when h...
Teen Picks
Read This Next! - March 15, 2024 04:00 - 23 minutesNicole goes solo to share some books picked by our local teens. Everything from Stephen King, manga and more!
SXSW 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'We Were Dangerous' with the Creative Team
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 11, 2024 22:18 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsDuring #SXSW2024 writer Maddie Dai, director Josephine Stewart-Te Whui, and producer Morgan Waru joined #CarolynTalks to talk about WE WERE DANGEROUS, their dramatic feature that gives a unique look at what colonization, colonialism, and Western Christian imperialism look like from the perspecti...
SXSW 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'Can' with Writer and Director Kailee McGee
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 10, 2024 23:37 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFilmmaker Kailee McGee joined me for Carolyn Talks..., to discuss her short film CAN, in which she shares an intimate look into her thoughts and feelings of anger, confusion, insecurities, and bewilderment over the changes her body went through during months of treatment for Stage 4 breast canc...
SXSW 2024 - Carolyn Talks 'An Army of Women' with Filmmaker Julie Lunde Lillesæter
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 09, 2024 19:09 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor the #SXSW2024 world premiere of her documentary AN ARMY OF WOMEN, I spoke with filmmaker Julie Lunde Lillesæter about the journey she and this army, Marina, Hanna, "Amy", and their fellow claimants, were on during the making of the film as Julie followed the process of their class action law...
Carolyn Talks 'Past Lives' with Filmmaker Celine Song
Carolyn Talks Podcast - March 03, 2024 16:46 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsIn this episode of Carolyn Talks..., writer and director Celine Song joined me to talk about Past Lives, her critically acclaimed debut feature film which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Greta Lee as Nora, an aspiring playwright whose forgotten memories of her past ...
Fairytale Inspired Fantasy
Read This Next! - February 29, 2024 23:00 - 27 minutesFairytales reimagined - sleeping beauty, Rumpelstiltskin and more!
Carolyn Talks 'Jesa' with Student Filmmaker Jee Hoon Seo
Carolyn Talks Podcast - February 21, 2024 00:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsFor Carolyn Talks..., I spoke with Jee Hoon Seo, student filmmaker at the NYU Tisch about his short film JESA, inspired be his own experiences with the Korean tradition as a boy, the ins and outs of funding and making an independent film as a student, and developing his brand and identity as a f...
The Dark Side of Wellness
Read This Next! - February 17, 2024 18:00 - 25 minutesWellness means many things to many people and these books discuss the ways the wellness industry effects people lives -- for better or worse.
What Did Laura Miss?
Read This Next! - February 02, 2024 19:00 - 25 minutesLaura is back! And boy does she have a list of books that she missed out on.
Non-SciFi SciFi
Read This Next! - January 19, 2024 16:00 - 25 minutesIf you're looking for science based books that are based more in reality this is the episode for you!
Found Family
Read This Next! - December 14, 2023 18:00 - 26 minutesSatisfying, uplifting, and heartwarming are some words you could use to describe books with Found Family. You could also include, robots, hippos, and Scooby-Doo!
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