Tracy and the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge can be found on Twitter @WWfilmchallenge, Instagram @womensweekendfilmchallenge, and at womensweekendfilmchallenge.com.
Content warning: Melissa and Tracy briefly discuss rape and sexual assault around the 58 minute mark of this episode.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Little Women by Greta Gerwig
Atlantics by Mati Diop
The Farewell by Lulu Wang
Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria
You Have to Fail A Little (Melissa’s piece on Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola for Bright Wall/Dark Room)
Wendy Wasserstein
The Heidi Chronicles
Uncommon Women and Others
Women’s Weekend Film Challenge
Katrina Medoff (Tracy’s co-founder of Women’s Weekend Film Challenge)
Lily + Mara - Tracy’s short film co-directed by Caroline Roberts
Oona Laurence
Meghann Fahy
Pete’s Dragon
The Bold Type
Christina Bryza
Our episode with Christina Bryza
Agnès Varda
Leslie Schultz BRIC Entertainment
Kathryn O’Kane
Salt Fat Acid Heat on Netflix
Bandersnatch
Reese Witherspoon
Oprah
Mindy Kaling
Lena Waithe
Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Mustang
Lightbulb Grip & Electric
Transformers
Avengers
Gotham Sound
Museum of the Moving Image
Queens Council of the Arts
Sesame Street
Mike Sayre
Queens Museum
Music for Icebergs
Olivia Wilde Talking About a Gender-Swapped Reading of American Pie
It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman
Harvey Weinstein article
The HeSo project
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Succession on HBO
Girls on HBO
About Us:
Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.
You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.
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