Episode 134 - Live From Ebertfest! (With Richard Roeper, Rita Coburn Whack, And More)

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A very special episode for you live from Ebertfest 2019 in Champaign, Illinois. Rita Coburn Whack talks of her film "Maya Angelou, Still I Rise" and lets us in on the words of wisdom she learned from Angelou herself. Then, Sam brings out two of the festival's biggest stars. Lastly– Sam calls up the great writer and critic Richard Roeper to talk all things Ebert. Illustrations by Krishna Shenoi. Music by Dylan Peck.

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0:00.0	Pushkin I'm going to Hello everyone. Welcome to this special episode of Talk Easy. I was in Champaign-Urbana last weekend for the 21st annual
0:38.3	Ebertfest. My film that's called Sebastian was playing there.
0:43.8	It's one of the very few short films that I've ever played the festival.
0:47.4	And it was unbelievable and a very surreal moment to return to this festival that I've been coming to for about
0:55.8	six or seven years to play one of my movies. I don't have all the words to articulate the moment, but I want to say thank you to Chaz Ebert and
1:08.4	Nate Cohen, Brian Telerico, and Matt and Z Sitesites. This would not have happened without them.
1:15.9	I also want to thank all the people in Champaign-Urbana who were at the festival and who are listening to this show.
1:22.0	So many of you came up to me and said so many kind things
1:27.0	about this small movie I made with a handful of people.
1:31.6	It was a film made by seven, eight people for a budget that was tiny.
1:36.5	And to have so many of you approach me and tell me how much the movie meant to you and that you identified with this immigrant story and
1:46.6	that you understood the importance of this story right now in 2019 under a president who is whether you like him or not unquestionably
1:57.2	objectively xenophobic I think a story about the goodness of immigrants that immigrants make this country better.
2:05.0	I think that matters right now. And it's hard to think about my grandfather who passed away
2:12.1	a few years ago and then what he would have made of all of this.
2:16.0	But I'll tell you the people in the Virginia theater that morning when the movie screened
2:21.0	made me feel like it was all worth it.
2:24.1	So what you're about to hear is a live episode I recorded in front of
2:30.0	the Virginia theater audience.
2:32.0	The first guest is Rita Coburn Wack. She's the director of Maya
2:35.8	Angelo and Still I Rise. It's a really, really lovely talk with her. And then right after, I bring on Peggy and Carlo this lovely
2:46.5	octogenarian couple who've been together for over half a century they They've been coming to Ebertfest since the beginning of the festival 21 years ago.
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