Lizzie Borden is the director of the influential sci-fi/agitprop cult film BORN IN FLAMES (1983) and Sundance award winner WORKING GIRLS (1986). We showed BORN IN FLAMES as part of Final Girls Berlin Film Festival’s special sci-fi event in 2019 and I decided to reach out to Lizzie Borden during these Corona times and ask if I could interview her for the podcast. Luckily, she agreed! We spoke about her background, her films, what it was like to work with Harvey Weinstein, her current projects, and quite a lot more.

BORN IN FLAMES can be seen on the Criterion Channel and WORKING GIRLS will be restored and released by Criterion in early 2021. 

You can follow Lizzie Borden here:

Facebook: Lizzie Borden (the profile with her face on it and NOT the ax murderer)

Twitter: @LizzieBordenLA

Instagram: @lizzieborden1403

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Episode 25: Lizzie Borden

Sophia is is the owner of the charming English-language bookstore Another Country in Kreuzberg and is quite a known entity in some Berlin circles because of it. She spent most of her life in England and moved to Berlin more than two decades ago. Trans coming out stories are very diverse, of course, and Sophia‘s experience is no exception. What started off as one of the effects of a health issue went on to change her life and led to her transition. Sophia was diagnosed with liver cancer a year ago and we discuss that as well as her many insights into the transitioning process. We did this interview over the phone and the sound isn’t optimal, I apologize in advance!

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Episode 26: Sophia

One film project that has had a huge impact on me is the Up Series. The Up Series is an ongoing British series of documentary films that began in 1964 and followed 14 children from different socio-economic backgrounds in England. Every 7 years director Michael Apted meets up with the kids, who are now 64 years old, and talks about what has happened in their careers, mindsets, families and so on. The project packs an emotional wallop, and the longer it continues, the more compellingly humanist it becomes. The latest episode, 63Up, came out in 2019. I started to watch the series in my early teens and I’m now 35, so these individuals have accompanied me in some way for more than half my life. With all this in mind, you can imagine how happy I was  when I got the chance to speak to Tony, the very charismatic London cabbie and former jockey, the “cheeky chappie” as he calls himself, who is one of the protagonists of the film series. We talk about his life, his priorities, and of course, we talk about the Up Series.  

You can find out more about Tony on his webpage: http://tonywalkertheupseries.com

He’s also on twitter @Taxietony7up and Instagram @tonywalker7up

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Episode 27: Tony (The Up Series)

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