Ep 346: Liza Johnson • Rachel Tunnard, Jodie Whittaker & Rachael Deering • Nancy Buirski

An episode focusing on this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with folks from three great films: Liza Johnson, the director of “Elvis & Nixon”, the team behind the British comedy “Adult Life Skills”, and the director of a new documentary called “By Sidney Lumet”, Nancy Buirski.

An episode focusing on this year’s Tribeca Film Festival with folks from three great films: Liza Johnson, the director of “Elvis & Nixon”, the team behind the British comedy “Adult Life Skills”, and the director of a new documentary called “By Sidney Lumet”, Nancy Buirski.

In this Tribeca Film Festival edition of the podcast, the first guest is filmmaker Liza Johnson whose new comedy “Elvis & Nixon” opens 4/22. In December 1970, rock ‘n’ roll icon Elvis Presley (Michael Shannon) travels to the White House to request a meeting with President Richard Nixon (Kevin Spacey).

The team behind a new British comedy called “Adult Life Skills” which had its world debut, filmmaker Rachel Tunnard and actors Jodie Whittaker and Rachael Deering. Anna (Whittaker) is a little different. She lives in her mother’s shed and spends much of her time privately making videos using her thumbs as actors. As her thirtieth birthday approaches, her mum tells her it’s time to move out.

Nancy Buirski director of the documentary “By Sidney Lumet“. Lumet tells his own story and delves into what matters to him as an artist.