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This week on the podcast we have writer, director, Chinixa Bravo.

uh... Janixa joined us to do our first live show down in Austin this past weekend.

She was there not only to do our live show, but mostly to show and premiere her directorial debut.

It is called Lemon.

It is incredible.

It was the best movie I saw at Sundance.

It is probably the best movie at South by Southwest. It is so good

in fact that Magnolia will be distributing it later this year for everyone to see, which

you absolutely should. For those unfamiliar with Janix's work, she is, for my money,

one of the most interesting emerging filmmakers in film and television right now.

She's made two incredible short films.

The first one is called Eat,

with Brett Gellman and Catherine Watterson.

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