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Whether you’re a seasoned professional in the film industry, an aspiring filmmaker, or a media enthusiast, Sista Brunch offers a rare glimpse into the professional lives of those who shape contemporary entertainment. It's an essential resource for understanding the role of an inclusive lens in crafting stories that resonate across audiences. Hear the powerful voices of those leading the way in Hollywood and beyond. Learn from their experiences, get inspired by their stories, and gain insights into making your mark in the entertainment world.
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- 1 weeks ago13 min
Celebration Interviews: Lanett Tachel and Hari Williams on Hiding the Medicine and Winning on the Last Day
At our Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, we set up a podcast room and invited everyone in the building to interview each other with prompt cards. This is the fourteenth of fifteen conversations from that day.Actor, writer, and producer Lanett Tachel sits down with actor and producer Hari Williams for her first Sista Brunch. Lanett describes the moment she felt most seen: Angie's Cure, made with her team at New Breed Entertainment and shot across South LA and Leimert Park with everything they had, entered at Dances With Films on the last possible day because they had little faith in festival politics. It won the grand jury prize, and she's been invited back as a voice for the festival since, which is the part that stayed with her. On craft, she explains how to deliver the medicine in any genre without being heavy-handed, as long as the characters are real. Hari reflects on storytelling's power to leave an audience better than it found them, and what the human vision means as new technologies reshape how work gets made. Lanett's series Toxic-ish, created with producing partner Corey Grant, screened at Dances With Films in June.Watch the video version on YouTube (@TruJuLoMedia) or Apple Podcasts. The full unedited conversation is available to members at patreon.com/sistabrunch.Filmed at The Recording Club, Santa Monica. Recorded during the Sista Brunch Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, produced with Pioneer Network.Sista Brunch is brought to you by TruJuLo Productions, hosted and produced by Fanshen Cox, with our Season Seven team: Samantha K. Henderson, Tasha Rogers, Ashanti Groves, Charlie T. Savage, Shawn Pipkin-West, and Maegan Philmore. Recorded on the unceded territory of the Tongva and the Chumash in Los Angeles.Support the show: leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and join us at patreon.com/sistabrunch.
- 2 weeks ago10 min
Celebration Interviews: Jade-Jenise Dixon and Lanre Idewu on Proof, Refusals, and Two Decades of Watching Each Other Work
At our Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, we set up a podcast room and invited everyone in the building to interview each other with prompt cards. This is the thirteenth of fifteen conversations from that day.Director Jade-Jenise Dixon — who also appears in Volume 4 of this series — sits down with actor, writer, and producer Lanre Idewu. They've been crossing paths since the wrap party for Jade's first feature Truth Hall, where Lanre was the only person on the DVD bonus material who named how much work it must have taken. He knew because he was already producing shorts and understood the distance between twenty minutes and a hundred. Years later they worked together on Kold x Windy. Lanre talks about the lineage that made his own career imaginable, from Oscar Micheaux and Melvin Van Peebles through Spike Lee, Robert Townsend, Ava, Issa, and Lena — you have to see that it's possible before you know what you can do. Jade shares two times she walked away from money: a role handed to her without an audition that she read and refused, and independent film financing that came with conditions she wasn't willing to meet. Lanre closes on how leaving personal training behind was the self-care that let him finally invest in his own acting career.Watch the video version on YouTube (@TruJuLoMedia) or Apple Podcasts. The full unedited conversation is available to members at patreon.com/sistabrunch.Filmed at The Recording Club, Santa Monica. Recorded during the Sista Brunch Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, produced with Pioneer Network.Sista Brunch is brought to you by TruJuLo Productions, hosted and produced by Fanshen Cox, with our Season Seven team: Samantha K. Henderson, Tasha Rogers, Ashanti Groves, Charlie T. Savage, Shawn Pipkin-West, and Maegan Philmore. Recorded on the unceded territory of the Tongva and the Chumash in Los Angeles.Support the show: leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and join us at patreon.com/sistabrunch.
- 3 weeks ago13 min
Celebration Interviews: Rraine Hanson and Hari Williams on Expansiveness, Installation, and Making Work That Matters
At our Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, we set up a podcast room and invited everyone in the building to interview each other with prompt cards. This is the twelfth of fifteen conversations from that day.Filmmaker Rraine Hanson — born in Kingston, based in LA, working across the union art department as set dresser, prop master, and production designer while making his own work — sits down with actor and producer Hari Williams. Rraine heard about Sista Brunch at the Black Indie Ignite summit the day before and came because our language named Black women and gender expansive people, which meant he wouldn't have to choose between a Black space and a queer space. He talks about installation as an extension of his directorial practice, the recurring throughline in his work of treating ourselves and the natural world as sacred, and why the stakes are too high to make anything without intention. He was a Season 7 guest, and his short film Transcend is currently in post, shooting in Kingston. Hari also shares how this celebration came together: a conversation about bringing six seasons of guests into one room where everyone would feel seen.Watch the video version on YouTube (@TruJuLoMedia) or Apple Podcasts. The full unedited conversation is available to members at patreon.com/sistabrunch.Filmed at The Recording Club, Santa Monica. Recorded during the Sista Brunch Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, produced with Pioneer Network.Sista Brunch is brought to you by TruJuLo Productions, hosted and produced by Fanshen Cox, with our Season Seven team: Samantha K. Henderson, Tasha Rogers, Ashanti Groves, Charlie T. Savage, Shawn Pipkin-West, and Maegan Philmore. Recorded on the unceded territory of the Tongva and the Chumash in Los Angeles.Support the show: leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and join us at patreon.com/sistabrunch.
- Oct 1, 202610 min
Celebration Interviews, Vol. 11: Shawn Pipkin-West and Janean Jeffries on Fear, Layoffs, and Building Your Own
At our Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, we set up a podcast room and invited everyone in the building to interview each other with prompt cards. This is the eleventh of fifteen conversations from that day.Our drop-in co-host Shawn Pipkin-West — a director and UPM who was a Sista Brunch guest twice before joining us behind the mic — sits down with her friend Janean Jeffries, an executive assistant. Asked what they believed five years ago and no longer do, Shawn says she believed she had to be perfect. What replaced it is a practice of saying yes to what scares her, including this podcast. Janean believed she was too essential to be laid off while doing the work of seven people. She was wrong, and what she took from it is sharper than bitterness: no one needs you, so create things for yourself and build your own community. Shawn also talks about directing one of five horror shorts made in two weeks, deliberately choosing the most ambitious script in the pile.Being on Sista Brunch was on Janean's vision board. As of this episode, it's manifested — welcome to the family.Watch the video version on YouTube (@TruJuLoMedia) or Apple Podcasts. The full unedited conversation is available to members at patreon.com/sistabrunch.Filmed at The Recording Club, Santa Monica. Recorded during the Sista Brunch Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, produced with Pioneer Network.Sista Brunch is brought to you by TruJuLo Productions, hosted and produced by Fanshen Cox, with our Season Seven team: Samantha K. Henderson, Tasha Rogers, Ashanti Groves, Charlie T. Savage, Shawn Pipkin-West, and Maegan Philmore. Recorded on the unceded territory of the Tongva and the Chumash in Los Angeles.Support the show: leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and join us at patreon.com/sistabrunch.
- Sep 24, 20266 min
Celebration Interviews, Vol. 10: Charisma Justice and Michelle Turner on Rest, Enough, and the Pre Stage
At our Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, we set up a podcast room and invited everyone in the building to interview each other with prompt cards. This is the tenth of fifteen conversations from that day.Charisma Justice and Michelle Turner joined us through our talent producer Kamesha Rodriguez, and gave us one of the most candid conversations of the day. Asked when she last felt truly seen, Charisma says she isn't there yet — she's mid-career-change and planning a cross-country move, living in what she calls the pre stage. Her definition of arriving has nothing to do with status: enough money that the bills don't register, room in the back to build a house for her mother, her child next door, and no one worrying about long-term care. On rest, she's blunt about why Black women don't take it, and honest about what her own version looks like. Michelle shares that she chose to step back after years of giving herself to other people's dreams, and wonders now whether she's been resting too long.Watch the video version on YouTube (@TruJuLoMedia) or Apple Podcasts. The full unedited conversation is available to members at patreon.com/sistabrunch.Filmed at The Recording Club, Santa Monica. Recorded during the Sista Brunch Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, produced with Pioneer Network.Sista Brunch is brought to you by TruJuLo Productions, hosted and produced by Fanshen Cox, with our Season Seven team: Samantha K. Henderson, Tasha Rogers, Ashanti Groves, Charlie T. Savage, Shawn Pipkin-West, and Maegan Philmore. Recorded on the unceded territory of the Tongva and the Chumash in Los Angeles.Support the show: leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and join us at patreon.com/sistabrunch.
- Sep 23, 20261h 22m
Welcome Back to Hillman: A Different World with Consider This for Comfort
This is our first collaboration episode. We teamed up with Consider This for Comfort, the award-winning podcast hosted by Eteng Ettah, to welcome back Hillman ahead of A Different World's premiere on Netflix on Thursday, September 24.In the first half, Eteng and Fanshen talk about what the original series meant to them and to a generation of Black viewers. They get into the case for a sequel in an era of reboots, and why Felicia Pride as showrunner matters. They also talk about the state of Black Hollywood, and where to find and support our stories beyond the studios.In the second half, we go behind the scenes with Jen Farris, an Atlanta-based film and TV location scout. Jen explains how location tells a story and how she went from the music business to scouting. She also shares what it meant for the new A Different World to film on real HBCU campuses in the Atlanta University Center.Then Eteng and Jen sit down to our signature Sista Brunch question.Chapters00:00 Cold open00:35 Welcome to the collab02:50 What makes a comfort show06:40 First memories of A Different World12:50 The case for a sequel22:00 The state of Black Hollywood26:50 Festivals and Black-owned distribution30:10 Who we're becoming35:00 Eteng's Sista Brunch38:30 Meet Jen Farris41:10 What a location scout does49:00 From music to film52:50 When we see us on set56:30 Scouting Hillman61:30 A Different World and HBCU enrollment70:00 Movie magic on a budget77:30 Jen's Sista Brunch81:30 Where to follow JenCo-host/GuestsEteng Ettah is a pop culture commentator and host of Consider This for Comfort.Instagram: @etenggg | @considerthisforcomfortpodJen Farris is a 15-year Atlanta-based film and TV location scout with 28 years in arts and entertainment. Her credits include Atlanta, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Genius: Aretha, Game Night, Sleepy Hollow. She is a member of Teamsters Local 728 and served as secretary of the Location Managers Guild International board of directors (2021–2022). She also hosts Yo, Did You Know?Instagram: @msjenfarris | @yo.didyouknowWebsite: jen-farris.comMentioned in this episodeA Different World (Netflix)UCLA Hollywood Diversity ReportKweli TVAmerican Black Film FestivalMartha's Vineyard African American Film FestivalBronzeLens Film FestivalBlackStar Film FestivalOur June 2020 episode with Felicia Pride: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/felicia-pride-replay-on-pivoting-ownership-and/id1506316350?i=1000791006528Watch and listenListen to Consider This for Comfort: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/consider-this-for-comfort/id1823537949
- Sep 21, 202640 min
Felicia Pride (replay) on Pivoting, Ownership, and Building a Sustainable Creative Career
Fanshen Cox and guest co-host Christabel Nsiah-Buadi welcome writer, director, and producer Felicia Pride to Sista Brunch for the first remote-recorded episode during COVID-19. Pride traces her path from marketing and posting poetry online to freelance journalism, grad school, book publishing, and authoring six books, including The Message, before a seven-year pause from writing while running a marketing consultancy. After burnout and a layoff in film distribution, she recommitted to screenwriting, publicly reclaimed her identity as a writer, and built her career through classes, coaching, and strategic work. Pride discusses marketing as sharing one’s journey, hiring a publicist, impact producing, and using those skills to crowdfund and release her short film Tender, centered on self-love, intimacy, and Gen X Black queer women. She also shares coping with racial trauma through therapy while working as a staff writer on Grey’s Anatomy and highlights Create Daily as a resource for underrepresented creators.00:00 Pandemic Pivot Intro00:39 Felicia Pride Snapshot02:03 Welcome and Guest Bio05:04 Origins and Early Writing06:18 Journalism to Publishing07:57 Six Books and Burnout08:44 Consulting Years and Reset09:19 Move to LA and Layoff11:53 Reclaiming the Gift14:57 Marketing Yourself Publicly17:00 Why a Publicist Matters19:20 Defining Your Career Story19:49 Impact Campaigns Teaser20:12 Impact Producing Explained20:59 Tender as Brand24:17 Ownership and Community Funding27:19 COVID Work and Healing30:47 Tender Themes and Self Love32:19 Why Gen X Stories36:03 Where to Watch and Follow36:37 Create Daily Opportunities37:26 Final Thanks and Wrap
- Sep 17, 20269 min
Celebration Interviews, Vol. 9: Geraldine Porras and Liz Franco on Hard Conversations and Roads Not Taken
At our Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, we set up a podcast room and invited everyone in the building to interview each other with prompt cards. This is the ninth of fifteen conversations from that day.Four-time Emmy and Peabody Award-winning bilingual producer Geraldine Porras sits down with Liz Franco, Manager of Original Documentary Series at Netflix. Geraldine shares what it was like to co-executive produce We Need to Talk About Cosby with W. Kamau Bell — an intimidating subject that required holding space for survivors to tell their own truths, and surfacing why coming forward is so costly. Her throughline: start the hard conversations, because nothing moves otherwise. Liz reflects on the job she almost turned down in 2019, choosing CNN over a network centering Black and Latinx stories, and what learning the buyer side of a major corporation gave her. Together they talk about being in rooms that weren't designed for you, and what you can still change from inside them.Watch the video version on YouTube (@TruJuLoMedia) or Apple Podcasts. The full unedited conversation is available to members at patreon.com/sistabrunch.Filmed at The Recording Club, Santa Monica. Recorded during the Sista Brunch Season Six Celebration and Season Seven Fundraiser, produced with Pioneer Network.Sista Brunch is brought to you by TruJuLo Productions, hosted and produced by Fanshen Cox, with our Season Seven team: Samantha K. Henderson, Tasha Rogers, Ashanti Groves, Charlie T. Savage, Shawn Pipkin-West, and Maegan Philmore. Recorded on the unceded territory of the Tongva and the Chumash in Los Angeles.Support the show: leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, and join us at patreon.com/sistabrunch.
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