Can we finally be hopeful about women filmmakers? Plus: Fair Play, Alec Baldwin
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Show Notes
This week: why New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis is optimistic about women in the film world, for the first time…
Plus, does female success have to come at the cost of male ego? That’s the premise of a movie, Fair Play, which sold to Netflix for 20 million dollars at Sundance. I talk to its writer/director, Chloe Domont
But first, there was some pretty big news this week about Alec Baldwin and the fatal shooting on the Rust set in 2021. I spoke about it in my weekly entertainment news chat with LAist Morning Edition host Susanne Whatley.
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