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Tracy Sayre

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In the 30th episode of Truer Words, we talk to Tracy Sayre about her evolution from painter to writer/director! Tracy and the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge can be found on Twitter @WWfilmchallenge, Instagram @womensweekendfilmchallenge, and at womensweekendfilmchallenge.com.

Content warning: Melissa and Tracy briefly discuss rape and sexual assault around the 58 minute mark of this episode.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Little Women by Greta Gerwig

Atlantics by Mati Diop

The Farewell by Lulu Wang

Hustlers by Lorene Scafaria

You Have to Fail A Little (Melissa’s piece on Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola for Bright Wall/Dark Room)

Wendy Wasserstein

The Heidi Chronicles

Uncommon Women and Others

Women’s Weekend Film Challenge

Katrina Medoff (Tracy’s co-founder of Women’s Weekend Film Challenge)

Lily + Mara - Tracy’s short film co-directed by Caroline Roberts

Oona Laurence

Meghann Fahy

Pete’s Dragon

The Bold Type

Christina Bryza

Our episode with Christina Bryza

Agnès Varda

Leslie Schultz BRIC Entertainment

Kathryn O’Kane

Salt Fat Acid Heat on Netflix

Bandersnatch

Reese Witherspoon

Oprah

Mindy Kaling

Lena Waithe

Deniz Gamze Ergüven

Mustang

Lightbulb Grip & Electric

Transformers

Avengers

Gotham Sound

Museum of the Moving Image

Queens Council of the Arts

Sesame Street

Mike Sayre

Queens Museum

Music for Icebergs

Olivia Wilde Talking About a Gender-Swapped Reading of American Pie

It’s A Whole Spiel: Love, Latkes, and Other Jewish Stories edited by Katherine Locke and Laura Silverman

Harvey Weinstein article

The HeSo project

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

Succession on HBO

Girls on HBO

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

Kathryn Benson