Host David Kittredge welcomes award-winning writer-director Justin Simien (Dear White People, Bad Hair) to discuss his career as a trailblazing Black creative in Hollywood, balancing satire with heart, and how tackling racism across his film and television work has been "not so much prescient as it was a part of the present." Simien shares insight into how he has made space for himself as a Black gay man in the culture-at-large, filming the first season of Dear White People against the shadow of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, and how Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon helped to shape his sense of storytelling and aesthetics.
It's all Trick and plenty of treats in our second episode of the OutCast Presented by Outfest! In this episode, host David Kittredge speaks with Trick director Jim Fall and Drag Superstar Coco Peru about the 1999 gay rom-com classic as well as plans for the sequel.
Performance artist, musician, and director Rachel Mason and her brother Josh Mason join David to talk about the acclaimed documentary on Netflix, Circus of Books.
Host David Kittredge chats with the filmmakers behind the 2019 Outfest Los Angeles film From Zero to I Love You: writer/director Doug Spearman; stars Darryl Stephens, Scott Bailey, Keili Lefkovitz; and producer Alan Koenigsberg. They cover everything from the tenacity needed to make independent f...
