Welcome back, everyone! I’m very excited to share with you an interview with one of my personal heroes, New York and Portland-based filmmaker and activist Adele Pham. On this episode, we bonded over being daughters of immigrants, and we also discussed her hit documentary Nailed It, class and cultural identity, the influence of multi-cultural stories […]
The Documentary Filmmakers
Episode 15 – Michael Witnes Zapata: For Art’s Sake
When this podcast was launched in 2017, the mission was to feature Houston and its artists in all their beautiful, energetic, and sometimes complicated glory. No one embodies Houston’s dynamic artistic culture better than Ben DeSoto, the subject of directors Michael Witnes Zapata and Andrew Benavides’ latest documentary Ben DeSoto: For Art’s Sake. During this […]
Episode 14 – Kimberly Rivers-Roberts: Fear No Gumbo
This season, the Gallery Podcast is bringing you a full lineup of filmmaker artist interviews, including some masters and legends, along with the Houston Cinema Arts Society at the 2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival. On this episode, Claudia got to catch up with Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker and rap artist Kimberly Rivers-Roberts. They talked about […]
An Interactive Series on the Houston Housing Crisis: HCAF Interview with Architect Adèle Naudé Santos
The Houston Cinema Arts Society invited Claudia to take part in a discussion with architect Adèle Naudé Santos during the HCAF 10th Anniversary showcase. In this interview, they revisited the birth of the interactive series she created with filmmaker James Blue, INVISIBLE CITY: HOUSTON’S HOUSING CRISIS. About the Film Arguably, James Blue’s most ambitious project, […]