Filmwax Radio

Guests on this episode include the actress Jacki Weaver and documentary filmmakers Lisa Gossels and Adam Kahan.

Actress Daphne Rubin-Vega (Rent, Jack Goes Boating) and actor/filmmaker Jayce Bartok (A Song Still Inside), are the guests on this episode of the podcast. Jayce’s directorial debut feature film, Fall to Rise, the story of two women and an unlikely friendship. After  Lauren (Katherine Crockett), a principal dancer and new mother, is injured she is […]

Legendary film director Bernardo Bertolucci is the guest. His new film, Me and You, is currently in theaters.

The Chicago-based documentary filmmaker Steve James is the sole guest on this episode of the podcast. Steve has a new film coming out Friday, July 4th on the life and career of the late film critic Roger Ebert, called Life Itself.

The Oscar winning screenwriter and film director Paul Haggis is on the show. Paul’s new film, Third Person, is currently in theaters. We also chat about a charity he founded called Artists for Peace and Justice.

Two extraordinary documentary filmmakers appear on this episode of Filmwax Radio: Brian Knappenberger with his new film, The Internet’s Own Boy; and Doug Block with his long anticipated 112 Weddings.

Returning to the podcast, Bryan Wizemann waxes on his career and his latest project, Each Coming Night.

Legendary actress of stage and screen, Olympia Dukakis is the subject of a new documentary. Both the subject and director, Harry Mavromichalis, are guests in the first segment. Then I’m joined by filmmaker Jonathan Caouette for an extended conversation.

Guests on this episode include Chris Mason Johnson the director of the film Test; and the filmmakers of the new documentary First to Fall which is premiering at the New York Human Rights Watch Film Festival next week.

The programmers of BAMcinemaFest including Ryan Werner, Nellie Killian, David Reilly & Gabriele Caroti stop by to discuss this summer’s festivities; also one of the films in the festival is a new documentary, Evolution of a Criminal. It’s director Darius Clark Monroe visits in the second segment.