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 […]
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 […]
Episode 13 – Euzhan Palcy: A Legendary Filmmaker
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. In this interview, Claudia sat down with a living legend, filmmaker Euzhan Palcy. They discussed what it has been like for […]
Episode 12 – Making WAVES: HCAF Interview with Director Trey Edward Shults
Welcome back, everyone! The Gallery Podcast is bringing you a full lineup of filmmaker artist interviews, including some masters and legends. Claudia teamed up again with Houston Cinema Arts Society to interview guest artists at the 2019 Houston Cinema Arts Festival. Her first interview at the festival was with the visionary writer and director, Trey […]
Episode 11 – Jessi Bowman, Nomadic Curator & Photographer
The Gallery Podcast welcomes the amazingly talented Jessi Bowman (co-founder of FLATS and photographer extraordinaire) for a one-on-one interview. Since its inception, FLATS has become a platform for Houston-based and visiting photographers to connect and share their art pieces in unconventional and intimate settings. Jessi and her husband, Cris Skelton, have made it their mission […]
Exploring the Art of Film & Music: HCAF Interview with Sam Green & the Kronos Quartet
Claudia teamed up with the 2018 Houston Cinema Arts Festival to interview Sam Green (director of Academy Award-nominated film THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND) and the legendary Kronos Quartet (musicians David Harrington, John Sherba, Sunny Yang, and Hank Dutt). They discussed working together across disciplines and creating (and re-creating) the film/live performance A THOUSAND THOUGHTS. Watch the […]
The Journey of a Female Filmmaker: HCAF Interview with Maria Giese
Claudia had the opportunity to have a candid conversation with filmmaker Maria Giese at the 2018 Houston Cinema Arts Festival about the film THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING. Maria, a writer, director, and advocate, instigated the biggest industry-wide Federal investigation for women directors in Hollywood history. Maria and Claudia dive into her personal journey as a female […]
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, […]
Silent Film Composers: Donald Sosin & Alicia Svigals Bring Music to THE ANCIENT LAW (DAS ALTE GESETZ)
Join Claudia as she interviews silent film composer Donald Sosin and world-renowned Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals for the Houston Cinema Arts Society’s annual film festival. They discussed composing music for silent films, their process for creating music for THE ANCIENT LAW (DAS ALTE GESETZ), the restoration brought to the film, and why everyone should go […]