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The world premiere of Filmwax friend the filmmaker Alan Berliner's "Benita" will take place at DOC NYC. "Benita" is about experimental documentary filmmaker Benita Raphan who died by suicide during the loneliness of the COVID-19 shutdowns. DOC NYC 2024 Lifetime Achievement filmmaker Alan Berliner, who was her friend and creative advisor, creates a kind of posthumous collaboration with Benita on her final project, using as many of her images, sounds, and words as possible. BENITA is a deep dive into the many complexities of artists’ lives, from the whimsical to core existential questions, and lessons we can learn about the intersection of mental health and creativity. – Jaie Laplante of DOC NYC Screenings: Friday, 11/14 7PM at the IFC Center & Sunday, 11/16 11:30 AM at Village East.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk-lAX_947Q
Ep 873: Heidi Levitt
Saison 15 · Épisode 873
mardi 4 novembre 2025 • Durée 20:55
The filmmaker Heidi Levitt returns to the podcast for her 2nd visit. She was on last October when her documentary "Walk With Me" was about to have its Hudson Valley premiere at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival. Over four years of filming with Heidi as director and care partner, they crisscross the country, redefining how life will be lived to its fullest. Charlie’s charm, warmth, and appeal take center stage, illuminating a story of love and a reminder that life is really about our relationships.
"Walk With Me" is currently enjoying a theatrical run at the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Los Angeles. It will also be having a theatrical at the Cinema Village in NYC beginning November 20th.
Ep 872: Louis Cancelmi
Saison 15 · Épisode 872
mercredi 29 octobre 2025 • Durée 57:09
The actor Louis Cancelmi ("The Irishman", "Killers of the Flower Moon") returns to the podcast to discuss his craft and his recent role in the Sundance hit film "Sorry, Baby". He's also in the current episodic series "Government Cheese" on Apple TV+.
https://youtu.be/vZ62V8CvslY
Ep 871: Judy Gold, A Borscht Belt Film Fest Special
Saison 15 · Épisode 871
jeudi 23 octobre 2025 • Durée 01:22:37
The 2nd Annual Borscht Belt Film Fest takes place Friday, October 31st through Sunday, November 2nd in Ellenville, NY. One of the main events will take place on the first evening when comedian Judy Gold will be honored with the first ever Mensch Award. Included is a seriously intimate and casual chat with Gold about her extensive career and how her Jewish identity and the Borscht Belt shaped it. Moderated by Alan Katz, Founder & CEO of The Mountains Media. After a Q&A, Gold will sign her book about freedom of speech, "Yes I Can Say That: When They Come for The Comedians We Are All in Trouble". For the full schedule of screenings and special events visit the festival's website. I also have the film festival's director Melody Gilbert and programmer Jay Blotcher on this episode for a lively conversation about what you can expect to see later this month.
Photo credit: Justine Ungaro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hPb5K_Qwj0&t=1403s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbwnxgUV8z0
Ep 870: David Amram (a Woodstock Film Festival Special Episode)
Saison 15 · Épisode 870
dimanche 12 octobre 2025 • Durée 01:17:54
The legendary composer, arranger, musician and penny whistle player, David Amram, will be in conversation with Academy Award documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple at the Woodstock Film Festival on Sunday, 10/19 12 noon. The venue is the Kleinert/James Art Center, 34 Tinker St, Woodstock. David Amram started his professional life in music as a French Hornist in the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) in 1951. After serving in the US Army from 1952-54, he moved to New York City in 1955 and played French horn in the legendary jazz bands of Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton and Oscar Pettiford. In 1957, he created and performed in the first ever Jazz/Poetry readings in New York City with novelist Jack Kerouac, a close friend with whom Amram collaborated artistically for over 12 years. Since the early 1950s, he has traveled the world extensively, working as a musician and a conductor in over thirty-five countries including Cuba, Kenya, Egypt, Pakistan, Israel, Latvia and China. He also regularly crisscrosses the United States and Canada.He composed the scores for many films including Pull My Daisy (1959), Splendor In The Grass (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He composed the scores for Joseph Papp's Shakespeare In The Park from 1956-1967 and premiered his comic opera 12th Night with Papp's libretto in 1968. He also wrote a second opera, The Final Ingredient, An Opera of the Holocaust, for ABC Television in 1965. From 1964-66, Amram was the Composer and Music Director for the Lincoln Center Theatre and wrote the scores for Arthur Miller´s plays After The Fall (1964) and Incident at Vichy (1966). Appointed by Leonard Bernstein as the first Composer In Residence for the New York Philharmonic in 1966, he is now one of the most performed and influential composers of our time.
For tickets & details: https://woodstockfilmfestival.org/2025-all-events?eventId=68c4216f81b8e06c5bb8c1fc
Ep 869: Bob Ray
Saison 15 · Épisode 869
mardi 7 octobre 2025 • Durée 01:15:47
In the year 2010, writer/performer/provocateur Chad Holt and filmmaker Bob Ray teamed up to make a vérité style documentary about Chad Holt’s last six months of felony probation, his life, his creative output, and his relentless dick-centric drive. Despite some critical hullabaloo, their doc, "Total Badass", went mostly unseen due in no small part to the aforementioned dick flopping across the screen. Unsatisfied, they planned to bring the doc directly to the people themselves and set forth on eleven weeks of touring around America screening the flick. Come jail or high water, this is their trip.
https://youtu.be/ccypQwym4XE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqgc-aqA720
Ep 868: Steven Feinartz
Saison 15 · Épisode 868
vendredi 3 octobre 2025 • Durée 32:12
The filmmaker Steven Feinartz ("The Bitter Buddha") makes his first appearance on the podcast. His new documentary is called "Are We Good?".
"Are We Good?", which premiered out of SXSW Film & TV Festival and screened out of Tribeca Festival is not a biopic, nor is it a stand-up routine film – it is a look at one person’s process through grief told with honesty, humanity, and humor.
The touching documentary not only dives into the career and life of comedian and podcast pioneer Marc Maron but focuses on his process grieving the loss of his partner Lynn Shelton who passed during Covid, as well as his relationship with his declining father. Like Marc, the doc beautifully balances humor and heart and shows us that even during times of grief there is room for laughter.
https://youtu.be/l583VoPYn3o
"Are We Good?" features exclusive interviews for the film with comics such as Nate Bargatze, John Mulaney, David Cross, Michaela Watkins, W. Kamau Bell, Laurie Kilmartin, Sam Lipsyte, Brendan McDonald as well as obtain podcast footage from Marc’s interviews with President Barack Obama, Andrew Garfield, Patton Oswalt and many more.
Directed by Steven Feinartz who is an established filmmaker with over 15 comedy specials and series including "Matt Braunger: Big Dumb Animal", "Eddie Pepitone: In Ruins", "Sklar Brothers: Hipster Ghosts" and "The Comedy Show Show". Steven also directed Marc’s recent special "Marc Maron: Panicked" for HBO.
Utopia will release the film in theaters in NY and LA on October 3rd and nationwide theatrical events on October 5th & 8th.
The theatrical releasee will coincide with the end of Maron’s enormously popular podcast WTF. 16 years in, WTF is one of the most streamed and longest running podcasts of all time.
Ep 867: Claire Jeffreys
Saison 15 · Épisode 867
lundi 29 septembre 2025 • Durée 43:53
My guest is Claire Jeffreys who has made her directorial debut with a documentary about her husband Garland Jeffreys. It's currently available to stream on Apple TV, Google Play, Prime Video and YouTube.
In the late 1970s, many of music’s top tastemakers felt sure Garland Jeffreys would become the next big thing. Rolling Stone named him the “most promising artist” of 1977. The prestigious PBS program Soundstage predicted he would become “the next performer to lay claim to superstardom.”
That sense of missed opportunity forms the emotional core of a new documentary about the star titled "Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between". The title refers both to Jeffreys’ musical style — an uncategorizable mix of rock, reggae, and soul — and to his identity as the mixed-race son of a Black father and a Puerto Rican mother who struggled to find his place in the overwhelmingly white world of ’70s and ’80s rock. With fellow artists Laurie Anderson, Bruce Springsteen, Harvey Keitel, Vernon Reid, Alejandro Escovedo, Graham Parker, writers Robert Christgau, David Hajdu, Jamaica Kincaid and Roger Guenveur Smith, this is a warm and intimate look at an artist who belongs in the conversation.
Ep 866: Chris Smither
Saison 15 · Épisode 866
lundi 8 septembre 2025 • Durée 38:01
The great troubadour, Chris Smither, is the guest. In addition to releasing 20 albums of mostly original material and touring for over 40 years, Smither recently made his acting debut in a short film called "The Singers" which premiered at SxSW this past Spring. "The Singers" is a film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, in which a lowly pub full of downtrodden men connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off. The film explores the complexities of masculinity and the power of vulnerability through art. Smither's most recently album is called "All About the Bones". He will be performing at Kingston's Assembly on a double bill with Loudon Wainwright III on Thursday, September 18th.
https://youtu.be/LPAJExna7bE
Ep 865: Wendy Lobel • Steph Ching & Ellen Martinez
Saison 15 · Épisode 865
mardi 19 août 2025 • Durée 50:53
Filmwax Radio is proud to welcome 3 female documentary filmmakers to the podcast for their first time.
First up is the filmmaker Wendy Lobel. "Anxiety Club" provides an intimate and humorous look at anxiety through the eyes and minds of some of the most brilliant comedians working today. Marc Maron, Tiffany Jenkins, Baron Vaughn, Aparna Nancherla, Mark Normand, Eva Victor and Joe List offer candid reflections on their relationship with anxiety through exclusive interviews, standup performances, sketch videos, therapy sessions, and everyday life. With rare access to private therapy sessions, the film follows comedian Tiffany Jenkins (a content creator with over 9 million followers) as she undergoes behavioral therapy, capturing the profound changes her treatment brings about. Others find support from alternative sources, such as world-renowned meditation expert Tara Brach, PhD, or the psychologist-in-residence at The Laugh Factory, or simply from mentors in the comedy community. All of the comedians in "Anxiety Club" have created standup or sketch material about their mental health that is not only funny but uniquely relatable and disarming to audiences. With comedy, vulnerability, and honesty, these comedians provide remarkable insight into anxiety - the most prevalent mental health disorder affecting an estimated 300 million people worldwide.
Then filmmakers Steph Ching and Ellen Martinez with their PBS documentary "Slumlord Millionaire". Winner of the Audience Award at the 2024 DOC NYC Film Festival, “Slumlord Millionaire” explores the rapid gentrification of New York City neighborhoods and the housing crisis sweeping not only New York but the nation. Median rents nationwide are higher than ever, and in Manhattan, the average rent is now almost $5,000 per month. As rents increase, some landlords have become aggressive in getting long-term tenants to leave: ignoring repairs, turning off heat and gas, and doing nothing to eliminate mold and vermin infestations. The landlord’s goal is to make the apartment so uninhabitable that residents are forced out, allowing them to deregulate the apartment and turn it over to market rate for a high profit. These actions drive up costs in the already unaffordable housing market and displace families who make up the fabric of these neighborhoods, changing communities forever. “Slumlord Millionaire,” premieres on the PBS series VOCES on Monday, July 28, 2025, 10:00-11:30 p.m. ET (check local listings) on PBS, PBS.org and the PBS app.
