Every week, Kristopher Pollard from Milwaukee Film and Radio Milwaukee’s Dori Zori talk about movies — because that’s what you do when you’re Cinebuds.
In the past year, Dori and Kpolly have welcomed some awfully impressive guests as part of the eventually titled “Musician Series.” Marielle Allschwang kicked things off last November, The People’s Joker composers Justin Krol and Quinn Scharber picked it up this past May, and Immortal Girlfriend’s Will and Kevin Bush sounded right at home just a couple months ago.
Today, we push the Cinebuds Musician Series to new heights, because you can really only go up when the one and only Ani DiFranco(!!!!) joins your podcast.
The folk-rock icon is at the center of new documentary 1-800-ON-HER-OWN, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year. If you didn’t know any better, you’d swear the story it tells was pulled straight from the mind of a Hollywood writer: A musician rattles an entire genre and empowers young women everywhere, launches her own record label and spends the subsequent decades lifting up voices that may have been ignored otherwise.
DiFranco and director Dana Flor join Dori on this episode of Cinebuds to share how you go about the impossible task of capturing someone’s life experience, especially someone as multifaceted as DiFranco. Use the player at the top of the page to hear the full conversation, and don’t miss your own opportunity to see the film with DiFranco and Flor in attendance at the Oriental Theatre this Saturday, Oct. 5.
