The OutCast is a frank, fun, and fascinating podcast featuring conversations with LGBTQIA+ creators, storytellers, and talent where they candidly discuss their work, their inspirations, and their challenges to be seen and heard in the entertainment industry. Hosted by filmmaker David Kittredge, each OutCast is a fun no-holds-barred conversation with accomplished and iconic creators and performers about what draws them to their projects, the rough-and-tumble of getting them made, and the lega ...
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Join Avaryl and Andrew from MovieBitches on our monthly podcast where we talk about everything and anything we want to! From Drag Race to movies, TV shows to the books we're reading, nothing is off limits!
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MIQ host Ryan Parker interviews artists who are making it queer to learn more about who they are, what they do, and what their art reveals to the dominant culture.
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Ep.12 - Ep 12: TIFF 2021
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TIFF 21 We talked about all the movies we saw at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival! Lot's of hats, some hits, some misses - and now many are available on streaming! Support Let's Have A Kiki - With MovieBitches by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kiki-with-moviebitches…
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Ep.11 - Ep 11: Sundance 2021
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Join as we talk about all the films we saw at the Sundance Film Festival 2021 0:00 - Intro and festival overview2:09 - CODA7:17 - Rebel Hearts11:12 - Flee14:08 - Summer of Soul17:56 - Superior20:23 - How It Ends25:23 - Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided to Go For It29:15 - El Planeta31:31 - Pleasure33:26 - Street Gang: How We Got To Sesame St.38:…
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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 3: The Best Families, We're All Going To the World's Fair
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This week we're closing out season two of The OutCast with the third and final installment of our Highlights from Outfest LA series! Kicking things off, host David Kittredge speaks with writer/director Javier Fuentes-León about his terrific, Buñuelian new film THE BEST FAMILIES, embracing metaphor and blending genres as a means of storytelling, and…
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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 2: All Boys Aren't Blue, Boy Culture: The Series
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This week we're back with Part Two in our finale series highlighting some of our favorite films from the 2021 edition of Outfest Los Angeles! First, host David Kittredge chats with director Nathan Hale Williams about adapting George M. Johnson's memoir into the film ALL BOYS AREN'T BLUE, challenging assumptions about being Black and gay, and juggli…
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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 1: The Sixth Reel, The Novice
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We're closing out this season on the OutCast with a three-part (!) finale to celebrate the 2021 edition of the Outfest Los Angeles film festival by highlighting six terrific films from the program that we love and just can't stop thinking about. In Part One, host David Kittredge kicks things off by chatting with Outfest Director of Festival Program…
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Filmmaking and friendship set the tone this week as Independent Spirit Award-nominated writer/director Yen Tan (1985, Pit Stop) joins host and real-life pal David Kittredge to discuss his life, career, and filmmaking influences. From first seeing Thelma and Louise at age 16 in his native Malaysia to premiering a feature at the Sundance Film Festiva…
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In honor of Gossip Girl's return on HBO Max, creator/showrunner Joshua Safran chats from the New York set with host David Kittredge about his eclectic and accomplished career - and, of course, upper-class high school elites, depicting bathhouse culture onscreen, and the young and queer cast populating this exciting new sequel series. Tracing his ti…
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What happens to your career after the low budget feature you directed, wrote, produced, edited and starred in is picked up by Ava DuVernay's distribution company, lands a Netflix deal and gets an Independent Spirit Award nomination? This week, award-winning filmmaker Isabel Sandoval talks with host David Kittredge about her breakout indie hit Lingu…
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This week on The OutCast Presented by Outfest, we celebrate the incredible work of New Queer Cinema filmmaking giant Cheryl Dunye as she joins host David Kittredge to explore her entire career, from her early short films all the way to her recent episodic work on series like Lovecraft Country. With her groundbreaking hit The Watermelon Woman, Dunye…
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Changing the Game: Michael Barnett, Alex Schmider, & Mack Beggs
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The team behind the Outfest Los Angeles award-winning Hulu documentary Changing the Game (Director Michael Barnett, Producer Alex Schmider, and champion wrestler Mack Beggs) joins host David Kittredge to discuss the film and how it tells the story of transgender youth athletes in the United States. Barnett talks about the high bar of cinematically …
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Pose: Steven Canals, Mj Rodriguez, & Billy Porter
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The category is POSE on the first episode of season two of The OutCast Presented By Outfest! Host David Kittredge welcomes creator Steven Canals and stars Mj Rodriguez and Billy Porter to chat about their work in making the groundbreaking series in advance of the series finale on FX. Steven recounts the 166 meetings it took before getting a green l…
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Episode 10 Merry Christmas! To help make the yuletide gay, we read a couple short stories from the book "Stocking Stuffers." Hold on to your pearls, and please enjoy! Support Let's Have A Kiki - With MovieBitches by donating to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/kiki-with-moviebitches
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2020 has been a wild year - since COVID has prevented in-person film festivals, this year we covered OutFest LA digitally through their OutFest NOW app. In this episode Andrew tells Avaryl (and you) about the highlights from the festival. Make sure to check our Instagram for more coverage!
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Part 2: Two Eyes, P.S. Burn this Letter Please & Dramarama
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It’s part two of the OutCast’s season finale and we’re highlighting three more films from the 2020 Outfest LA Festival! First, host David Kittredge chats with writer/director Travis Fine & star Kate Bornstein about their beautiful triptych TWO EYES, which tells three interweaving stories spanning centuries across the American West. Then, writer/dir…
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Outfest LA 2020 Highlights Part 1: Tahara & Cowboys
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It’s the OutCast’s first season finale! We’re highlighting five 2020 Outfest LA Festival films and it’s so big, it’s two parts! In part one, host David Kittredge chats with Outfest Executive Director Damien Navarro and Director of Programming Mike Dougherty about the challenges and triumphs of this year’s festival. Then, director Olivia Peace and s…
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Tune in next week for the Season 1 finale
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The OutCast presented by Outfest is taking this week off to finish producing the big season one finale next week, highlighting some of the best films from Outfest Los Angeles Film Festival 2020. That episode will feature filmmakers from TAHARA, COWBOYS, TWO EYES, P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE and DRAMARAMA. Tune in next week!…
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Building a successful career as a director in the industry is tough— but to do it as a woman when almost all working directors were men? That’s a triumph. Host David Kittredge delves deep with trailblazing director Jamie Babbit, from her start working on set with David Fincher to her LGBT classic But I’m A Cheerleader, through her impressive career…
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It’s all about indie filmmaking this week on the OutCast Presented by Outfest! Host David Kittredge catches up with his friend, filmmaker, actor and musician H.P. Mendoza, about why being a tech nerd can help you shoot indie movies for incredibly low budgets, how being an introvert can boost productivity, how to navigate a successful relationship w…
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We’re going back to our indie film roots this week on The OutCast Presented By Outfest, when host David Kittredge talks with one of the most acclaimed producers of the past few decades, Christine Vachon. From her start working on the set of PARTING GLANCES to shepherding iconic movies of the New Queer Cinema, to founding her company Killer Films an…
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Laverne Cox, Sam Feder and Amy Scholder
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Take a trip through the celluloid closet of trans visibility with host David Kittredge as he chats with the filmmakers behind the acclaimed documentary DISCLOSURE: director Sam Feder, producer Amy Scholder and executive producer Laverne Cox. From the years of outreach, fundraising, shooting and editing to the joy of seeing the film premiere to ecst…
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Michael Mayer, Christian Borle & Jonathan Groff
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It’s all about theater on this episode of The OutCast Presented by Outfest, when host David Kittredge has an in-depth chat with acclaimed director Michael Mayer and actors Christian Borle and Jonathan Groff about their 2020 production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Mayer’s SPRING AWAKENING and THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE, Borle’s roles from FALSETTOS to t…
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On the latest episode of The OutCast Presented by Outfest, host David Kittredge chats with Outfest alumnus and award-winning producer/director Jeffrey Schwarz (VITO, I AM DIVINE, THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR, TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL and many others) about his passion for documentary filmmaking, how he chooses his projects, and the “best night of his lif…
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We're Here - Bob The Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka O’Hara
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On the latest episode from the OutCast-- host David Kittredge kikis with drag superstars Bob The Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka O’Hara about their HBO Original Series We’re Here. The fabulous trio spills the tea about their favorite moments during filming, how they support queens of color during these challenging times, and their plans to return …
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John Cameron Mitchell, Bryan Weller & Brian Kates
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What do punk rock, aliens and 70s London have in common? Take out your wig in a box and listen to the latest episode of The OutCast Presented by Outfest as David Kittredge is joined by award-winning actor, writer, director and musician John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), co-composer Bryan Weller (How to Talk to Girls at Parties), and…
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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 and Keili Lefkovitz; and producer Alan Koenigsberg. They cover everything from the tenacity needed to make independent films, to issues of race, to how Doug and Darryl ha…
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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.De către Outfest
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Welcome to The OutCast Presented by Outfest
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Thought-provoking, outrageously entertaining and diverse perspectives on entertainment and the rapidly changing cultural landscape, featuring leading LGBTQIA+ creators and performersDe către Outfest
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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.De către Outfest
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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 …
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In this episode of Let's Have A Kiki, we talk about our experience at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival where we recorded live at the Sundance TV HQ. We go over all the films we saw and talk about highlights from this year's festival.De către Movie Bitches LLC
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In Ep 7 of Let's Have A Kiki we talk about all the TV shows we're watching, or stopped watching, and why we love, hate, and love to hate them!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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We went to the 2019 Toronto Film Festival #TIFF19 and in this episode we talk about all of the films we saw including Joker, Judy, Knives Out, Parasite, and more!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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Cheers! On this episode of Let's Have A Kiki we introduce the MovieBitches Book Club! We talk about the books we're reading and want to read (from My Friend's Exorcism to The Snowman) as well as do a reading from a short story from "Kosher Meat" Enjoy!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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This episode we talk about the 2019 Met Gala where the theme was our favorite genre: CAMP! Beyond Lady Gaga and Celine Dion, there were a lot of fabulous looks, but also a lot that did not understand the assignment. Cheers!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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Ep 3 - Sunset Blvd. Feat Jaymes Mansfield
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Cheers! Welcome to ep 3 of Let's Have A Kiki: With MovieBitches! This episode we're joined by the fabulous Jaymes Mansfield to talk about the Hollywood classic: Sunset Boulevard! We're ready for our close up!!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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Oscars 2019 - For this special episode we talk about the Oscars 2019! From our favorite red carpet looks, to some suprising wins... join us for a very special kiki!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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We continue the conversation from Sundance TV Headquarters as we discuss a preview of the 2019 Oscars, some recent movies we liked (and didn't), as well as TV shows we're not sure why we're still watching. Cheers!De către Movie Bitches LLC
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Cheers! Welcome to the 1st official episode of "Let's Have A Kiki - With MovieBitches!" We're excited to launch our podcast with a special episode taped at the Sundance TV Headquarters at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. In this episode we talk about the movies we saw, the ones we wanted to see, and some fun experiences at the festival (including Z…
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