From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

It's the Treatment.

It's the Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell.

It's always a pleasure to have the guests return, especially when they've just returned from a triumphant screening at the Toronto International Film Festival.

My guest is director, Gina Prince Bythe Wood, who tackles so much material thematically.

I would say her entire career has led up to her newest film, The Woman King.

First of all, Gina, it's such a pleasure

to have you back. Thank you. And let's talk about that, because you've been to Toronto before

with your films. And this is not only the biggest feature you've done, but this one feels really

clearly very, very personal. Yeah, it was my third time at Toronto. I've loved it every time because the crowds love movies, you know, when you feel that.

But certainly this was a big one, both in scale, scope, and themes and necessity and pressure.

It was a lot.

And so to be sitting in an audience of, you know,

a thousand people and hear those first laughs and then hear those cheers was pretty,

pretty triumphant.

It's so interesting because there is no other filmmaker who has dealt with so consistently the intergenerational passing on

of skill of mastery from one group of women to another. This puts you in a pretty rarefied air.

There are so few of us in this position and the hope is certainly through the work and hopeful success, as we know

in Hollywood's success beget success, that this just opens more doors for others to be able to do

this.

I mean, I've got to think that, and we talked about this on a number of occasions, Gina, but

concessually putting forth a story where it's about women mastering things that are not

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