Pushkin.

It's a little bit exhausting. It's a little bit exhausting to feel like your identity is just a group identity as opposed to you being you.

So I would hop around a lot from group to group which was just also exhausting in its own way

because it felt more like putting on an identity as opposed to being

myself. It felt like acting. I think that that was the way that I needed to survive that

predominantly white institution space kind of. And that's fine. I think I did what I had to do, which was just act and pretend. The Oh, Hello everyone it is 1.30 in the morning here in Champaign, Illinois. I am attending the Ebert Fest, the 21st annual Ebert Fest, where my film Sebastian has played.

I am absolutely exhausted. I have been talking all day in front of people on stage to many

strangers and then many familiar faces. I want to give thanks to all the wonderful

people I have spoken to over the weekend, many of whom I have learned listen to this show and

it's a strange wonderful thing to have people come up to you and tell you you're

doing a good job I still don't entirely know what to say

other than thank you and that I promise to continue doing the show so long as it remains good. On that note we did a live episode of Talk Easy Here in Champaign at the

Virginia Theater. It was with Rita Coburn, the director of this wonderful Maya Angelo documentary.

And then we also have two special guests who have been attending this festival since it began over 20 years ago.

So we'll be airing that live episode next Sunday on the podcast,

but today I want to introduce to a really wonderful emerging filmmaker. Her name is Tyresha Poe. She's a new director whose debut film called Sala and the Spades premiered at the Sundance Film Festival this past January

Without diving into too much plot detail, I really really enjoyed this film out of Sundance

You end up getting to watch a lot of movies at these festivals and unfortunately

once you watch two or three in a day they all kind of blend together but there are moments of this film that stick in my head

three months removed.

I think the best way to describe this film

is quoting an answer Tyresha gave in an interview to women in Hollywood.com.

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