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The Next Best Picture Podcast

Interview With "East Of Wall" Stars Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga & Filmmaker Kate Beecroft

The Next Best Picture Podcast

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

"East of Wall" is an American indie drama film, written and directed by Kate Beecroft in her directorial debut, starring Tabatha Zimiga, Porshia Zimiga, Scoot McNairy, and Jennifer Ehle. It tells the story of a horse trainer who wrestles with financial issues and unresolved grief, while hosting a group of wayward teenagers on her ranch. The film premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, receiving positive reviews and winning the Audience Award in the NEXT program. Beecroft, Tabatha, and Porshia were all kind enough to speak with us about their work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which will be released in theaters on August 15th from Sony Pictures Classics. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Nadia Dalamonte's interview

0:05.1

with the writer, director, and producer for the film East of Wall, Cape Beercroft,

0:10.8

and the film stars Tabitha and Porschea Zimiga.

0:15.4

You know what today is, right?

0:17.4

Yeah, I know what today is.

0:19.6

John, he taught me how to ride.

0:21.6

I mean, really ride.

0:23.6

Horsha! Get Horsha!

0:25.6

She's fast!

0:27.6

She knows everything about horses.

0:30.6

She won't even try to ride anymore, not since it happened.

0:34.6

Now she's got all these kids living out there. Jassy! Horses are worth a hell of a lot more than what you got for them. But I got a lot of mouths to feed, so. My wife thinks she's a witch. Gumber tells me you've been selling horses on TikTok or something. But y'all ain't making the sales. I want to buy this 3,000 acres. Hello. Hi, how are you? I'm well. How are you all doing? Good. I'm Nadia with Next Best Picture. It's great to meet you all. Good to meet you. Yes, very good to meet you. Yeah. Well, firstly, congratulations on East of Wall. It's a really brilliant film. Thank you so much. Yeah, it's a really great story of

1:13.2

resilience and badass rodeo queens and grits. And I really think it is independent filmmaking

1:20.7

it's very best. And given how tough it is to make independent films, I imagine this must have been an incredibly

1:28.2

rewarding experience for all of you when the film reached an audience. And I wanted to start by

1:35.1

asking about the Sundance premiere earlier this year. What was that experience like for the three of you?

1:40.4

I mean, just to get into Sundance, such a dream, let alone win the audience award after.

1:47.3

It's, you know, Sundance is such an amazing organization, so very dreamy.

1:52.9

And it was also their first time watching the film was at the premiere at Sundance.

1:58.6

It was like 600 other people, and they all made us feel so loved. It was

2:04.2

really awesome. Yeah, it was really, really magical. It was. Yeah, if there's a word for it,

2:09.9

if it is. Out of body experience for sure. Yeah, that's really amazing. And I kind of speak to the

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