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Our podcasts feature interviews with outstanding artists, filmmakers, performers and writers from across the South.

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Allen Bell interviews Malcolm White and Kim Whitt of the Mississippi Arts Commission as they discuss a unique partnership with Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Foundation.  Musical excerpts provided by Mario Peralta.  Edited by Jenny Catherall

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SAF Podcast: Episode 34

Hannah Leatherbury interviews Charles “Wsir” Johnson about the necessity of knowing how to repair and create his own instruments while living in a rural community, getting commissioned by Chuck D (front man for hip-hop group, Public Enemy) and more! 

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 SAF Podcast: Episode XXXIII

Hannah Leatherbury interviews artist Liisa Salosaari-Jasinski whose interest in painting and visual arts blossomed later in life. 

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SAF Podcast: Episode XXXII
April 18, 2008

 Allen Bell interviews filmmaker Jim Haverkamp.  They discuss the making of Willow Garden, his earlier shorts and the North Carolina film community.

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 SAF Podcast: Episode XXXI
April 9, 2008

Hannah Leatherbury interviews Nnenna Freelon on her experience with the 22-state Monterey Jazz Festival 50th Anniversary Tour.

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SAF Podcast: Episode XXX
April 4, 2008

Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews Cathy Crane

Unoccupied Zone: The Impossible Life of Simone Weil explores the life and thought of one of the most compelling and contradictory spiritual thinkers of our times. A pacifist who fought in the Spanish Civil War, a former Marxist who discovered the value in religion, a Jew and a Christian who refused to be baptized – these contradictions are explored in the film.

The filmmaker, Cathy Crane, worked for 10 years as a stage manager of experimental Off-Off Broadway plays and worked in the music business coordinating international tours for Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. Her short experimental films have won numerous awards and she was one of four individuals who received the prestigious Eastman Kodak Scholarship in 1997 as “one of the nation’s most promising talents of the future generation of filmmakers.”

The interview explores Crane’s unique cinematic techniques, the life and thought of Simone Weil, and the intricate ideas portrayed in Unoccupied Zone.

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Total Time: 27:20

 SAF Podcast: Episode XXIX
March 18, 2008

Hannah Leatherbury, E-Services Manager, Southern Arts Federation, talks with multi-media artist Sherri Lynn Wood about her most recent project: The Mantra Trailer. This 1972 breadbox trailer has been converted into a recording studio and broadcast station, which, travels the country chronicling people’s mantras. Sherri is featured on the Southern Arts Federation’s adjudicated online artist registry, SouthernArtistry.org. This interview features Sherri talking about the original inspiration for the Mantra Trailer, her philosophy on how to select mantras based on the community her trailer visits, plus, some selected recordings of mantras.

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  SAF Podcast: Episode XXVIII
March 10, 2008

Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews David Redmon

Kamp Katrina is David Redmon’s second documentary film. If follows a New Orleans Upper 9th Ward resident, Ms. Pearl, and her attempt to open up her backyard to give shelter to those who lost their homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The film is a story of hope, community, generosity, rebirth and failure.

Redmon made his directorial debut with the 2005 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize nominee, Mardi Gras: Made in China. Currently, Redmon is working with Kamp Katrina co-director Ashley Sabin on the release of their recently completed film, Intimidad, which follows the “the other side of intimacy” by focusing on the intimate life of a young woman in Mexico who makes bras for Victoria’s Secret.

In the interview, Redmon discusses Kamp Katrina, Ms. Pearl, the shifting state of housing and the complexity of life in New Orleans, and his most recent film project, Intimidad.

Total Time: 22:47

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   SAF Podcast: Episode XXVII
March 3, 2008

Allen Bell, Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives, interviews Thomas Nybo and Simon Umlauf.

Hip-hop is a musical form often driven by protest and rebellion against the authority that surrounds it. Thomas Nybo and Simon Umlauf’s Guerrilla Radio: The Hip-Hop Struggle Under Castro explores how this anti-authoritarian, hip-hop subculture plays out in the world of Castro’s Cuba where dissent against authority is all but stamped out. Through a mix of narration, historical footage, interviews, and hip-hop performances, Guerrilla Radio offers a compelling portrait of artistic assertion in the face of oppression and tyranny that will capture even those who are not fans of hip-hop as a genre.

In the interview, the filmmakers discuss everything from music to politics, from lifestyle to economy, from medicine to education, from language to currency in Castro’s Cuba, all seen through the lens of the underground hip-hop movement.

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SAF Podcast: Episode XXVI
February 15, 2008

Composer/musician/storyteller, John McCutcheon, talks about how he hitch-hiked around Western Kentucky learning to play the banjo, what challenges he faces as a performer, and the relationship between communities and music. Listen to John with musical interludes in this month’s SouthernArtistry.org Artist interview.

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SAF Podcast: Episode XXV
February 5, 2008

 Allen Bell (new Program Director for Contemporary Arts and New Initiatives) interviews Socheata Poeuv.

Socheata Poeuv has won multiple international cinema awards by the young age of 27. She recently made her filmmaking debut with New Year Baby, which won the highest human rights cinema award, the Amnesty International ‘Movies That Matter’ Award at its premiere in the 2006 International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. New Year Baby is also slated for national PBS broadcast on Independent Lens in May 2008.

The interview delves into Poeuv’s academic background, her new nonprofit, Khmer Legacies, her vision for the organization, and how it was all inspired by her work on the film New Year Baby. The podcast also explores how her relationship with her family has changed and grown through the process of making her film.

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SAF Podcast: Episode XXIV
January 29, 2008

Allen Bell interviews Paul Festa.

Filmmaker and writer Paul Festa studied violin at the Juilliard School before graduating in 1996 from Yale College, where he studied English. His essays have appeared in Nerve, Salon, the annual Best Sex Writing anthology in 2005, 2006 and 2008.  He lives in San Francisco with his boyfriend, James, and their dog, Ziggy.

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  SAF Podcast: Episode XXIII
January 15, 2008

Photographer and Mississippi chronicler, Ken Murphy shares his thoughts on growing up with Legg-Perthes disease, serving as a 17-year-old tank commander in Korea, and photographing the state of Mississippi. Listen to Ken with musical interludes provided by Mississippi bluesman, Kenny Brown, in this January’s SouthernArtistry.org Artist interview.

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Episode XXII - December 12, 2007
Hannah Leatherbury interviews Teo Castellanos

Born in Puerto Rico and now a resident of Miami, FL, Teo infuses his productions with rituals from cultures around the world and adds a good dose of local urban flavor. Having recently toured his production Scratch and Burn in Atlanta, Teo showcased his ensemble work with his company, D-Productions. He is featured on the Southern Arts Federations juried, online artist registry, SouthernArtistry.org, (www.southernartistry.orgTeo_Castellanos). This interview features Teo talking about the Miami arts scene, the inspiration behind Scratch and Burn, what its like to create productions with a specific social commentary, and his upcoming projects.

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Episode XXI - November 6, 2007
David Dombrosky interviews Chris Metzler.

After graduating from USC with a degree in business and cinema, Chris Metzler's film career has taken him from the depths of agency work, to coordinating post-production for awful American movies seen late at night in Belgium.

His film directing and producing work has resulted in frequent partnerships with co-director Jeff Springer, where together they've criss-crossed the country with the aid of caffeinated beverages and made their way in the Nashville country and Christian music video industries, before finally forsaking their souls to commercial LA rock n' roll.

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