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The OutCast Presented by Outfest
by Outfest
The OutCast is a frank, fun, and fascinating podcast featuring conversations with LGBTQIA+ creators, storytellers, and talent where they candidly discuss their work, their inspirations, and their challenges to be seen and heard in the entertainment industry. Hosted by filmmaker David Kittredge, each OutCast is a fun no-holds-barred conversation with accomplished and iconic creators and performers about what draws them to their projects, the rough-and-tumble of getting them made, and the legacy they hope to leave behind! Featuring guests like drag legend Miss Coco Peru to the HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH multi-hyphenate John Cameron Mitchell to award-winning filmmakers Jeffrey Schwarz and Rachel Mason to performers like Jonathan Groff and Darryl Stephens, The OutCast is by turns thought-provoking and always outrageously entertaining!
Episodes
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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 3: The Best Families, We're All Going To the World's Fair
This week we're closing out season two of The OutCast with the third and final installment of our Highlights from Outfest LA series! Kicking things off, host David Kittredge speaks with writer/director Javier Fuentes-León about his terrific, Buñuelian new film THE BEST FAMILIES, embracing…
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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 2: All Boys Aren't Blue, Boy Culture: The Series
This week we're back with Part Two in our finale series highlighting some of our favorite films from the 2021 edition of Outfest Los Angeles! First, host David Kittredge chats with director Nathan Hale Williams about adapting George M. Johnson's memoir into the film ALL BOYS AREN'T BLUE,...
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Outfest LA 2021 Highlights Part 1: The Sixth Reel, The Novice
We're closing out this season on the OutCast with a three-part (!) finale to celebrate the 2021 edition of the Outfest Los Angeles film festival by highlighting six terrific films from the program that we love and just can't stop thinking about. In Part One, host David Kittredge kicks things off…
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Yen Tan
Filmmaking and friendship set the tone this week as Independent Spirit Award-nominated writer/director Yen Tan (1985, Pit Stop) joins host and real-life pal David Kittredge to discuss his life, career, and filmmaking influences. From first seeing Thelma and Louise at age 16 in his native Malaysia...
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Joshua Safran
In honor of Gossip Girl's return on HBO Max, creator/showrunner Joshua Safran chats from the New York set with host David Kittredge about his eclectic and accomplished career - and, of course, upper-class high school elites, depicting bathhouse culture onscreen, and the young and queer cast...
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Isabel Sandoval
What happens to your career after the low budget feature you directed, wrote, produced, edited and starred in is picked up by Ava DuVernay's distribution company, lands a Netflix deal and gets an Independent Spirit Award nomination? This week, award-winning filmmaker Isabel Sandoval talks with…
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Cheryl Dunye
This week on The OutCast Presented by Outfest, we celebrate the incredible work of New Queer Cinema filmmaking giant Cheryl Dunye as she joins host David Kittredge to explore her entire career, from her early short films all the way to her recent episodic work on series like Lovecraft Country.…
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Changing the Game: Michael Barnett, Alex Schmider, & Mack Beggs
The team behind the Outfest Los Angeles award-winning Hulu documentary Changing the Game (Director Michael Barnett, Producer Alex Schmider, and champion wrestler Mack Beggs) joins host David Kittredge to discuss the film and how it tells the story of transgender youth athletes in the United…
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Pose: Steven Canals, Mj Rodriguez, & Billy Porter
The category is POSE on the first episode of season two of The OutCast Presented By Outfest! Host David Kittredge welcomes creator Steven Canals and stars Mj Rodriguez and Billy Porter to chat about their work in making the groundbreaking series in advance of the series finale on FX. Steven...
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Part 2: Two Eyes, P.S. Burn this Letter Please & Dramarama
It’s part two of the OutCast’s season finale and we’re highlighting three more films from the 2020 Outfest LA Festival! First, host David Kittredge chats with writer/director Travis Fine & star Kate Bornstein about their beautiful triptych TWO EYES, which tells three interweaving stories spanning...
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Outfest LA 2020 Highlights Part 1: Tahara & Cowboys
It’s the OutCast’s first season finale! We’re highlighting five 2020 Outfest LA Festival films and it’s so big, it’s two parts! In part one, host David Kittredge chats with Outfest Executive Director Damien Navarro and Director of Programming Mike Dougherty about the challenges and triumphs of…
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Tune in next week for the Season 1 finale
The OutCast presented by Outfest is taking this week off to finish producing the big season one finale next week, highlighting some of the best films from Outfest Los Angeles Film Festival 2020. That episode will feature filmmakers from TAHARA, COWBOYS, TWO EYES, P.S. BURN THIS LETTER PLEASE and...
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Jamie Babbit
Building a successful career as a director in the industry is tough— but to do it as a woman when almost all working directors were men? That’s a triumph. Host David Kittredge delves deep with trailblazing director Jamie Babbit, from her start working on set with David Fincher to her LGBT classic...
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H.P. Mendoza
It’s all about indie filmmaking this week on the OutCast Presented by Outfest! Host David Kittredge catches up with his friend, filmmaker, actor and musician H.P. Mendoza, about why being a tech nerd can help you shoot indie movies for incredibly low budgets, how being an introvert can boost...
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Christine Vachon
We’re going back to our indie film roots this week on The OutCast Presented By Outfest, when host David Kittredge talks with one of the most acclaimed producers of the past few decades, Christine Vachon. From her start working on the set of PARTING GLANCES to shepherding iconic movies of the New...
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Laverne Cox, Sam Feder and Amy Scholder
Take a trip through the celluloid closet of trans visibility with host David Kittredge as he chats with the filmmakers behind the acclaimed documentary DISCLOSURE: director Sam Feder, producer Amy Scholder and executive producer Laverne Cox. From the years of outreach, fundraising, shooting and...
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Michael Mayer, Christian Borle & Jonathan Groff
It’s all about theater on this episode of The OutCast Presented by Outfest, when host David Kittredge has an in-depth chat with acclaimed director Michael Mayer and actors Christian Borle and Jonathan Groff about their 2020 production of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, Mayer’s SPRING AWAKENING and...
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Jeffrey Schwarz
On the latest episode of The OutCast Presented by Outfest, host David Kittredge chats with Outfest alumnus and award-winning producer/director Jeffrey Schwarz (VITO, I AM DIVINE, THE FABULOUS ALLAN CARR, TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL and many others) about his passion for documentary filmmaking, how he...
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We're Here - Bob The Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka O’Hara
On the latest episode from the OutCast-- host David Kittredge kikis with drag superstars Bob The Drag Queen, Shangela, and Eureka O’Hara about their HBO Original Series We’re Here. The fabulous trio spills the tea about their favorite moments during filming, how they support queens of color…
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John Cameron Mitchell, Bryan Weller & Brian Kates
What do punk rock, aliens and 70s London have in common? Take out your wig in a box and listen to the latest episode of The OutCast Presented by Outfest as David Kittredge is joined by award-winning actor, writer, director and musician John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)…
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From Zero to I Love You
Host David Kittredge chats with the filmmakers behind the 2019 Outfest Los Angeles film From Zero to I Love You: writer/director Doug Spearman; stars Darryl Stephens, Scott Bailey and Keili Lefkovitz; and producer Alan Koenigsberg. They cover everything from the tenacity needed to make…
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Rachel Mason
Performance artist, musician, and director Rachel Mason and her brother Josh Mason join David to talk about the acclaimed documentary on Netflix, Circus of Books.
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Welcome to The OutCast Presented by Outfest
Thought-provoking, outrageously entertaining and diverse perspectives on entertainment and the rapidly changing cultural landscape, featuring leading LGBTQIA+ creators and performers
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Jim Fall and Miss Coco Peru
It's all Trick and plenty of treats in our second episode of the OutCast Presented by Outfest! In this episode, host David Kittredge speaks with Trick director Jim Fall and Drag Superstar Coco Peru about the 1999 gay rom-com classic as well as plans for the sequel.
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Justin Simien
Host David Kittredge welcomes award-winning writer-director Justin Simien (Dear White People, Bad Hair) to discuss his career as a trailblazing Black creative in Hollywood, balancing satire with heart, and how tackling racism across his film and television work has been "not so much prescient as…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The OutCast is a frank, fun, and fascinating podcast featuring conversations with LGBTQIA+ creators, storytellers, and talent where they candidly discuss their work, their inspirations, and their challenges to be seen and heard in the entertainment industry. Hosted by filmmaker David Kittredge, each OutCast is a fun no-holds-barred conversation with accomplished and iconic creators and performers about what draws them to their projects, the rough-and-tumble of getting them made, and the legacy they hope to leave behind! Featuring guests like drag legend Miss Coco Peru to the HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH multi-hyphenate John Cameron Mitchell to award-winning filmmakers Jeffrey Schwarz and Rachel Mason to performers like Jonathan Groff and Darryl Stephens, The OutCast is by turns thought-provoking and always outrageously entertaining!
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