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Interviews with luminaries from the indie & arthouse film industry.

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Ep 825: Dan Partland • Rebecca Richman Cohen & Kev Jodrey

    The documentary filmmaker Dan Partland makes his first appearance on the podcast. From the filmmakers of the critically-acclaimed blockbuster "#Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump", which grossed over $2.5 million, has been viewed by millions, and was nominated for the IDA Documentary Awards Video Source Award Director, producer, and writer Partland and producer Art Horan are back with "#Untruth: The Psychology of Trumpism" examines the psychology of Trumpism and the authoritarian strain that it seeded in the American political landscape. The film is currently available on VOD platforms. Rebecca Richman Cohen is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker who teaches courses on media theory and advocacy at Harvard Law School. Through her work, she has examined a range of topics, including the prosecution of war crimes in Sierra Leone, responses to sexual violence in the US, cannabis legalization, and biodynamic winemaking. Her most recent film, "Weed & Wine" follows the story of Kev Jodrey —joining her in this segment— and his son Cona, descendants of outlaws who labored to make themselves legal purveyors of sun-grown, craft cannabis in Humboldt County, California. In the south of France, Hélène and her son Aurélien produce renowned, biodynamic wines on a vineyard that they’ve fought for centuries to keep in their family. In this sumptuous and moving film, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, Rebecca Richman Cohen, parallels the profound joys and deep uncertainties of two farming families as they fight to protect their legacy, their craft, and their land. Executive produced by Berner. The film is currently available on VOD platforms.

    1h 3m

  2. OCT 11

    Ep 824: Heidi Levitt

    Walk with Me is the journey of Charlie Hess and his wife, episode guest Heidi Levitt, as they learn to live with his Early-Onset Alzheimer’s disease. Over four years of filming with Heidi as director and care partner, they crisscross the country, redefining how life will be lived to its fullest. Charlie’s charm, warmth, and appeal take center stage, illuminating a story of love and a reminder that life is really about our relationships. "Walk With Me" will screen at the Woodstock Film Festival on Saturday, October 19, 5:15PM at the Bearsville Theater. The post-screening Q&A will be moderated by Filmwax host Adam Schartoff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geeZYBAc36Q

    47 min

  3. OCT 5

    Ep 823: Kevin Smith • Jonathan Burkhart

    The iconic filmmaker Kevin Smith ("Clerks", "Mallrats") makes his first appearance on Filmwax Radio to briefly discuss his latest film "The 4:30 Movie" which is available on digital platforms. During the summer of 1986, three 16-year-old buddies spend their Saturdays sneaking into movies at the local cineplex. When one of the guys invites the girl of his dreams to see an R-rated film, all hilarity breaks loose as a self-important theatre manager and teenage rivalries interfere with his best-laid plans. Also, the film producer Jonathan Burkhart ("Do The Right Thing", "Dazed and Confused") discusses his career in a personal conversation. This interview was conducted in the Radio Free Rhinecliff studios.

    1h 13m

  4. OCT 2

    Ep 822: Julia Loktev & Michael Taylor

    Returning to the podcast filmmaker Julia Loktev ("The Loneliest Planet", "Day Night Day Night") and the editor Michael Taylor. The two have a new documentary project called "My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Last Air in Moscow" which is broken into 5 episodes and is screening as part of the New York Film Festival's main slate. This from the New York Film Festival website: American filmmaker Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. With her friend Anna Nemzer, a talk show journalist for TV Rain, Russia’s last remaining independent news channel, Loktev ends up immersing herself with a group of young women fighting to ensure the vocalization of dissent and outspoken criticism of the country—even as they are branded by the government as “foreign agents,” their careers and lives increasingly at risk as the country creeps toward war. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film, the climactic days of which were filmed in Moscow during the first week of the invasion, when most independent journalists fled the country, is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety, as well as a vital depiction of the eternal hope that so many in Russia hold for living in a democratic state. Screening in two parts: Chapters 1–3 (198m), Chapters 4–5 (124m).

    47 min

  5. SEP 27

    Ep 821: Erik Nelson & Emily Packer

    The filmmaker Erik Nelson is the guest in the first segment. Erik has a new documentary coming out about called "Daytime Revolution". For one extraordinary week beginning on February 14, 1972, the Revolution was televised. "Daytime Revolution" takes us back in time to the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono descended upon a Philadelphia broadcasting studio to co-host the iconic "Mike Douglas Show", at the time the most popular show on daytime television with an audience of 40 million viewers a week. What followed was five unforgettable episodes of television, with Lennon and Ono at the helm and Douglas bravely keeping the show on track. Acting as both producers and hosts, Lennon and Ono handpicked their guests, including controversial choices like Yippie founder Jerry Rubin and Black Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, as well as political activist Ralph Nader and comic truth teller George Carlin. Their version of daytime TV was a radical take on the traditional format, incorporating candid Q&A sessions with their transfixed audience, conversations about current issues like police violence and women’s liberation, conceptual art events, and one-of-a-kind musical performances, including a unique duet with Lennon and Chuck Berry and a poignant rendition of Lennon’s “Imagine”. A document of the past that speaks to our turbulent present, "Daytime Revolution" captures the power that art can have when it reaches out to communicate, the prescience of that dialogue, and the bravery of two artists who never took the easy way out as they fought for their vision of a better world. The film will have a nationwide theatrical screening in 50 cities on October 9th, the day that would have been John Lennon's 84th birthday. The filmmaker Emily Packer graces the podcast in this episode's second segment. In "Holding Back the Tide", an impressionist hybrid documentary, Packer traces the oyster through its many life cycles in New York, once the world’s oyster capital. Now their specter haunts the city through queer characters embodying ancient myth, discovering the overlooked history and biology of the bivalve that built the city. As environmentalists restore them to the harbor, Holding Back The Tide looks to the oyster as a queer icon, entangled with nature, with much to teach about our continued survival. The film had its world premiere at DOC NYC 2023, a New York theatrical at DCTV's Firehouse Cinema and will have a theatrical in Los Angeles beginning October Check the website for details.

    1h 5m

  6. SEP 20

    Ep 820: Haroula Rose • Julia Greenberg & Diana Dilworth

    Filmmakers Julia Greenberg & Diana Dilworth have a new documentary about the songwriter Dory Previn called "Dory Previn: On My Way to Where". And Haroula Rose returns to Filmwax to discuss her new feature, a comedy, called "All Happy Families" which premieres theatrically this weekend.

    1h 12m

  7. SEP 7

    Ep 819: Neil McGregor

    The director of a new documentary "Hinckley: I Shot The President", Neil McGregor is the guest. In March 1981, inspired by a dangerous obsession with the film "Taxi Driver" and actress Jodie Foster, a man named John Hinckley tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. The attack shocked the world and forever changed American history. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, Hinckley spent thirty-five years in a psychiatric hospital. Nearly 40 years later, a judge granted him his unconditional release. "Hinckley: I Shot The President" presents an unsparing profile of a man whose shocking act of political violence forever changed a nation and still resonates today. It examines Hinckley's troubled early life, his obsessions and other attempts at assassination, the lead-up and aftermath of his attack on Reagan, and whether or not redemption is possible for one of America's most infamous men, especially in a nation deeply divided by politics and gripped by gun violence. Stream the film.

    57 min

  8. AUG 24

    Ep 818: Eric Schnall • Zach Clark

    The theater producer and author Eric Schnall. He has a novel, his first, called "I Envy Your Disco". And the filmmaker Zach Clark ("Little Sister') returns with a new film "The Becomers."

    1h 8m
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Interviews with luminaries from the indie & arthouse film industry.

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  • Creator
    Adam Schartoff
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2024
  • Episodes
    38
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    © 2021 Adam Schartoff
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