Episode 3: Directing - Commercials vs Features

On this episode of The Telly Awards Podcast, we invited Sofia Garza-Barba, prolific commercial and music video Director, as well as a 2019 CDDP Fellow and Rachel Mason, Award-Winning Director of Ryan Murphy's Netflix Documentary 'Circus of Books,' to examine the differences and similarities between the craft of Directing. What is different about their creative process? What experiences do they share as female directors in a male dominated industry? And importantly, are the tides truly shifting in favor of women and more diverse creators in these areas?

Circus of Books follows the story of the the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lens of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.

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