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This collection includes author and publisher interviews, prose and poetry readings, including winning entries of The Missouri Review Audio Competition, that are distributed as podcasts.
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Item Citizen Jane Filmmakers Series : a conversation with Sara Blecher(The Missouri Review, 2016-02) Blecher, SaraSara Blecher is a co-founder of CINGA Productions, a South African-based production company that has made numerous award-winning films, documentaries, and series, including Zero Tolerance which was nominated for an international Emmy Award. Blecher's debut feature Otelo Burning was named one of the top ten African films of the decade by CNN. Blecher's latest movie, Ayanda, is the coming of age story of a South African woman who fights to keep her father's auto repair shop open in Johannesburg. Ayanda has been distributed in the United States by Ava Durvaney's Array and is currently available on Netflix. In this podcast, filmmaker Sara Blecher discusses the difficulties of filming a sex scene, the challenges of being a female film director, and how she created her own version of Johannesburg, among other topics.Item Citizen Jane Filmmakers Series : a conversation with Jennifer Lafleur(The Missouri Review, 2016-01) Lafleur, JenniferAs part of the Citizen Jane Filmmakers Series, The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast interviews Jennifer Lafleur who is an actress who plays the eldest of three sisters in "The Midnight Swim," which won several independent film awards. "The Midnight Swim" is a psychological thriller that keeps viewers on the edge of their seats with its subtly creepy faux-documentary style. Lafleur is also known for appearing in the independent films "Do-Deca-Lafleur Pentathlon," "The Pretty One," and "6 Years." While in college, Lafleur was nominated three times for the Kennedy Center: ACTF Irene Ryan Best Actress Award.Item A conversation with Tyehimba Jess and F. Douglas Brown(The Missouri Review, 2015-12) Jess, Tyehimba; Brown, F. DouglasThis Soundbooth Podcast presents and interview with poets Tyehimba Jess, author of 'leadbelly' and 'Olio', and F. Douglas Brown, author of 'Zero to three'. Both poets are closely affiliated with Cave Canem: A Home for Black Poetry.Item A conversation with Ryan Van Meter, the author of "If you knew then what I know now"(The Missouri Review, 2015-12) Van Meter, RyanThis week on The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast, Daniel Miller had the opportunity to talk to Ryan Van Meter, author of If You Knew Then What I Know Now. Ryan Van Meter's essay collection If You Knew Then What I Know Now is now available from Sarabande Books. His essays have been published in The Gettysburg Review, Indiana Review, Gulf Coast, Arts & Letters and Fourth Genre, among others, and selected for anthologies including Best American Essays 2009 and Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction. He currently teaches creative writing at The University of San Francisco.Item Citizen Jane Filmmakers Series : a conversation with Sharon Shattuck(The Missouri Review, 2015-11) Shattuck, SharonThis week The Missouri Review Soundbooth Podcast, inaugurates a series of podcasts about the Citizen Jane Film festival. The Citizen Jane Film Festival celebrates independent film by independent women and takes place in Columbia, Missouri, every fall. Sharon Shattuck is a filmmaker whose first feature, "From This Day Forward," is currently touring film festivals all over the world. "From This Day Forward" is a documentary that tells the story of Shattuck's transgender father, Tricia, and her mother, Marcia, who have been married for over thirty years. In addition, Shattuck is the co-creator of the New York Times Op-Docs series "Animated Life," which animates historical moments of scientific discovery, and is a contributing blogger for the Huffington Post and the Advocate.