Episodes
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Amal Ghandour - Author, Historian
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Amal Ghandour has a lot on her mind. The author, historian, and memoirist lives in Beirut and writes about what the experience has been like. And…there’s plenty to talk about both personally and politically. Her book, This Arab Life: A Generation's Journey into Silence, draws from Amal's personal history, as well as larger political and cultural issues. Her riveting book shares what it means to be Arab in today's world - the feeling, for example, of being a tourist in her own country and craving connection with her culture, her family and herself. Needless to say, there's lots to talk about.
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Ann Hu - Filmmaker
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Tuesday Aug 03, 2021
Ann Hu's's personal story would make for a great bio pic. Knowing no one, she was among the first students to come to the U.S. from mainland China after the Cultural Revolution to attend college. After graduating from NYU, she made her mark in the business world, but eventually wound up switching gears. In 1992, she took courses at NYU's Film School and in the years since has directed four features. Her latest, CONFETTI, offers a window into Asian/American immigrant life and is based on Ann's personal experiences. It is a powerful, passionate and timely story. And speaking of stories, Ann has many to share during our time together.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Ekwa Msangi - Filmmaker
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Tuesday Nov 24, 2020
Director, screenwriter, producer, instructor - all describe Tanzanian-American filmmaker Ekwa Msangi, who divides her time between Kenya and New York. Her latest project and first feature film, is the award-winnIng and critically acclaimed FAREWELL AMOR. It tells the story of an Angolan immigrant, whose wife and daughter join him in the States after a 17year separation. It is powerful, emotional, life-affirming. Ekwa's goal as an artist is "to transform our society's images and relationships with African cultures and to empower African filmmakers in telling their stories." Join us as Ekwa, direct from Nairobi, shares her story.
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Actress Lena Olin
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Lena Olin is one accomplished, celebrated, respected actress, considered the greatest to come to the States from Sweden since Ingrid Bergman. While still in drama school, she made her on-screen debut in Ingmar Bergman's "Face to Face," and continued working with him both on stage and film. Lena made her English language film debut in "The Unbearable Lightness of Being." That led to other well-known films including "Chocolat," directed by her husband Lasse Hallstrom. Nominated for several acting awards, Lena's latest project is "The Artist's Wife," co-starring Bruce Dern. We know you'll so enjoy meeting and getting to know this terrific, creative woman!
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Revisit Yilian Cañizares, Violinist, Singer, Composer
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
We are revisiting our conversation with Yilian Cañizares, a truly fascinating, unique, multi-talented violinist, vocalist and composer who makes beautiful music by artfully blending jazz, classical and her Afro-Cuban roots with her unique voice. Yilian’s songs range from the poignant to the exuberant. Her warmth, enthusiasm and honesty are palpable and….contagious. You’ll be hooked!
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Chef Maria Loi
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Maria Loi? A force of nature! She's a celebrity Chef, Restaurateur, Cookbook Author, Greek Food Ambassador, Author, Social Activist, Philanthropist. Did we whet your appetite? Tune in and meet this amazing, creative, accomplished dynamo!
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
The Carr-Petrova Duo
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Violist Molly Carr and pianist Anna Petrova make beautiful music together and audiences around the world are so grateful! Acclaimed international soloists, the two joined forces and formed the Carr-Petrova Duo. In August, 2018, they launched "Novel Voices," a year long initiative aimed at raising awareness of the lives and struggles of refugees around the world. They visited 8 camps in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East performing, holding workshops and filming the life stories of their diverse audience members. This is an important, moving conversation with 2 committed, talented and not easily intimidated women who are making a difference!
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Barbara Miller and Leyla Hussein, Filmmakers & Social Activists
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
You are about to meet and get to know two extraordinary, passionate, committed women. Swiss filmmaker Barbara Miller* is the woman behind the powerful documentary #Female Pleasure. It follows five courageous women from different cultures as they struggle for justice and equality as they take charge of their own bodies. And one of those women is Leyla Hussein, a Somali-born, British psycho-therapist and social activist who was genitally mutilated at the age of seven. She has made it her mission to fight against female genital mutilation or FGM, as well as for the sexual determination of Muslim women worldwide. This is one empowering, moving, critically important conversation.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Prune Nourry, Artist
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Born in France and based in Brooklyn, multi-disciplinary artist Prune Nourry works in sculpture, performance and video and was living her life, when in 2016, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It's a journey she shares in the first person film, "Serendipity." By doing so, Prune discovered new meaning in her impressive body of work and its serendipitous relationship to her own survival and mortality. She shares that and so much more in this truly fascinating, riveting and inspiring conversation.
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Irene Taylor Brodsky, Documentary Filmmaker
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Irene Taylor Brodsky happens to be an: Emmy and Peabody Award-winning, Oscar-nominated, director, producer, writer, cinematographer, whose documentaries have been shown in theaters, at festivals and on the small screen. Her first documentary feature "Hear and Now" was actually a memoir about her deaf parents. Her mom and dad are back on the big screen as is Irene's son Jonas, in her newest work "Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements." This is one very open, very personal conversation with a very accomplished, passionate, creative woman.