Beyond Crossroads...Starring Tamra Davis
Break the Frame: The Companion Podcast
Release Date: 06/03/2025
The Bones of Directing... Starring Debra Granik
Break the Frame: The Companion Podcast
Known for her powerful, character-driven storytelling and focus on marginalized communities, Debra Granik gained widespread recognition for the critical and box office hit Winter’s Bone (2010), which launched Jennifer Lawrence’s career and earned four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Her distinct style of storytelling and an empathetic lens results in films that serve to highlight and remind us of America’s overlooked and misunderstood. I had a chance to catch up with Debra just before I headed out on tour for the books and she was taking a...
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Beyond Crossroads...Starring Tamra Davis
Break the Frame: The Companion Podcast
Who says a director should only direct just films or just television? Tamra Davis has shown that you can have a multifaceted career that includes music videos, feature films, television, and documentaries. Her unique visual style and collaborative approach has resulted in genre-defining music videos for Hanson, Tone Loc and NWA as well as career defining roles for Adam Sandler, Britney Spears and Drew Barrymore. Tamra Davis’s versatility and commitment to storytelling continues with episodes of our favourite TV shows, films, and documentaries. Selected Filmography 13 (2022) Jean-Michel...
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Harvesting Honey - Starring Felicia Pride
Break the Frame: The Companion Podcast
In a world where women of a certain age or of a certain shade are often overlooked, Felicia Pride tells stories that center Black women and their nuanced experiences. The acclaimed writer, director, and producer who initially started out as a journalist made the switch to screenwriting in her mid-30s. Pride contributed to such hit television series as Queen Sugar, Grey’s Anatomy, and most recently the Fresh Prince reboot, Bel-Air. Her directorial debut, the short film Tender, explores the intimacy between two Black women post one-night stand. From there, Pride wrote and executive...
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Real Women Make Movies... Starring Patricia Cardoso
Break the Frame: The Companion Podcast
The stand out monologue by America Ferrara in 2023’s Barbie may not have happened if it weren’t for the trailblazing director Patircia Cardoso, who first cast Ferrera in her in her debut feature, Real Women Have Curves (2002). Cardoso who set out to become a anthropologist became the first Latinx director to win the Sundance Audience Award, and to have a film inducted into the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Cardoso’s anthropological background informs her storytelling, bringing depth and authenticity to underrepresented voices. She looks for the beauty in the...
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But I'm a Director! Starring Jamie Babbit
Break the Frame: The Companion Podcast
Known for her sharp, satirical storytelling and commitment to LGBTQ+ representation, Jamie Babbit’s career has been shaped by her own life experiences. In this episode we dive deeper into the film that made both her and its star, Natasha Lyonne famous. But I’m A Cheerleader is Babbit’s debut and centers around a high school cheerleader whose parents send her to a residential in-patient conversion therapy camp to "cure" her lesbianism. Learn how improvised moments made it into the final cut, how Jamie’s eye for talent has turned small scenes into bigger roles, and what films by women...
info_outlineWho says a director should only direct just films or just television? Tamra Davis has shown that you can have a multifaceted career that includes music videos, feature films, television, and documentaries. Her unique visual style and collaborative approach has resulted in genre-defining music videos for Hanson, Tone Loc and NWA as well as career defining roles for Adam Sandler, Britney Spears and Drew Barrymore. Tamra Davis’s versatility and commitment to storytelling continues with episodes of our favourite TV shows, films, and documentaries.
Selected Filmography
13 (2022)
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (2010)
Crossroads (2002)
Half Baked (1998)
Billy Madison (1994)
CB4 (1994)
Guncrazy (1992)
Dead to Me (2020)
You're the Worst (2017)
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (2015)
Gray's Anatomy (2007)
Music Videos
"MMMBop" - Hanson (1997)
"Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth (1990)
"Closer to Fine" - Indigo Girls (1989)
"Wild Thing" – Tone Loc (1988)