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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 3: The Best Families, We're All Going To the World's Fair
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
Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 2: All Boys Aren't Blue, Boy Culture: The Series
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 in
Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 1: The Sixth Reel, The Novice
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 O
Yen Tan
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 a
Joshua Safran
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 on
Isabel Sandoval
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-winni
Cheryl Dunye
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
Changing the Game: Michael Barnett, Alex Schmider, & Mack Beggs
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 sto
Pose: Steven Canals, Mj Rodriguez, & Billy Porter
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 advanc
Part 2: Two Eyes, P.S. Burn this Letter Please & Dramarama
Its part two of the OutCasts season finale and were 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, w