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Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Episode 154 - Alma Har'el

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

This week, Sam sits down with Honey Boy director Alma Har’el. She discusses the sacrificial act of independent filmmaking, the synchronicity of her art and experiences, how making Love True healed her childhood trauma, finding romance in her parents’ turbulent relationship, the profundity of working on Obama's 2008 campaign, her nonprofit's mission to change the consciousness of society, feeling close to strangers watching her film, and finally, examining her own story in projects to come. Visit our site: www.talkeasypod.com


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0:00.0

Pushkin.

0:07.0

When people say that dreams do come true and things like that or life is a dream

0:20.1

and all of that is something that speaks to me much more.

0:23.0

Everything that happens is some sort of a manifestation of a lot of the

0:28.0

subconscious ways that work through your character, like character is destiny and all of that, you know? So it's just kind of cool sometimes to sit around and start to connect the dots of how things happen and manifest themselves and why you're here right now.

0:52.0

That was Alma Hallel. I'm San Frigoso and this is talk easy.

1:25.0

Welcome to the show. So, Hey everyone welcome to the show. This is Talk Easy. I'm San Francisco and for the past 45 minutes.

1:32.0

Okay fine for the past hour. I was gonna try to lowball it, but for the past hour I have been trying my best to pronounce Alma's last name correctly.

1:39.1

This is really a huge fear I have.

1:43.6

This is really where also the whiteness comes out.

1:47.3

I'm bad at pronouncing people's last names.

1:50.8

I'm bad at pronouncing people's first names. It is something I really ought to get better at and it's one of my big fears is to butcher someone's name, mainly because growing up,

2:04.0

Fregoso was a last name that people had so much trouble with all the time.

2:10.0

I think it's because I went to a predominantly white Irish Catholic school but they can never

2:16.3

get Fregosa right always wrong it was Fregasso it was Fregoso it was forgosu it was for Guze it was it was so many things that didn't even make sense

2:27.0

Were way off topic already

2:29.9

Briefly before we get into this

2:33.0

Alma briefly before we get into this. Alma is a wonderfully talented writer director.

2:39.0

She's made three films.

2:40.0

The first two are called Bombay Beach and Love True.

2:44.0

They both kind of defy what you expect from both narrative and documentary films.

2:51.0

It's an amalgamation of the two in many ways. And this third film that

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