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Pint O' Comics Episode 296 - New Haven Documentary Film Fest

Sun, 01 Oct 2023 18:30:00 GMT

Eleven days. Nearly 100 documentary short and long film subjects. Everything from Black Barbie to Environmentalist women in Latin America - a cornucopia is only one of the words to describe NHdocs.org, the ten years running local to New Haven, Connecticut event overseen by Gorman Bechard. For this show, Director Katharine Kowalczyk joins Sir Jon for an hour discussing the origins of the festival, and many of the films involved that will run over the course of October 12th to the 23rd.

Pint O' Comics Episode 266 w/ Gorman Bechard

Sun, 26 Feb 2023 18:30:00 GMT

In 1970, the rock festival circuit came to a near dead stop with the never-quite-happened Powder Ridge Rock Festival in Middlefield, Connecticut. Bands were booked, tickets sold in the multitudes, and then the powers-that-be shut it down. Hard. Regardless, concertgoers showed up and camped out on the skiing hill in the hot month of August, pushing the tiny community to the end of their wits. What was it all about? Who wanted it on, who wanted it off? Gorman Bechard, movie documentarian of such films as PIZZA: A LOVE STORY and COLOR ME OBSESSED is currently working on a full documentary of the Powder Ridge Rock Fest, which we discuss at length in this episode. Good music, good fun, all strange and weird with hippies and conservatives looking back at a turning point in music and concerts. Look for the ongoing crowd funding effort for the movie here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/powder-ridge-music-festival-documentary-phase-2?fbclid=IwAR1OYdS5ti9aeFWAFUVKKOmSduwPfYbGyerYgH27d2VhyJnMLE29JWtMHYs#/

Pint O' Comics Episode 252 w/ The Geekpreacher, Derek White

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 18:30:00 GMT

The Satanic Panic and the Religious Battle for the Imagination is a documentary released earlier in 2022 focusing on the bizarre happenings in the early to mid- 1980's when Dungeons and Dragons, the tabletop role-playing game, found itself on the defense from factions of religion and the media. Derek White, aka The Geekpreacher, frequent guest on Pint O' Comics, is a large part of this documentary. He brings his skillful knowledge to the program as we wind our way through a very strange time in gaming and history.

Pint O' Comics episode 143 w/Mike Diana and Mike Hunchback

Sun, 10 May 2020 18:30:00 GMT

One man has the infamous distinction of being the only artist in the history of the United States to be convicted on obscenity charges. His name is Mike Diana and he is our Special Guest, along with Mike Hunchback, one of the producers of a recently released documentary called BOILED ANGELS: THE TRIAL OF MIKE DIANA. Ganache and Sir Jon discuss the film, Mike's art and the travesty Mike endured. Watch the movie, streaming now on Amazon Prime, then listen to the show!