Welcome back to Hot Takes and Deep Thives and My next guest is a

critically acclaimed writer and director best known for co-writing and directing the

Seminole Lesbian film Go Fish starring our very own Guinevere Turner as well as

writing directing and co-executive producing all six seasons of the L word.

What, you're correcting me on something?

Was there one year you didn't do it?

A one, two, and then six.

Those are the ones you did?

Yeah, I directed in season five.

I left in season three, so three and four.

I wasn't, no I didn't, I can't say it on the air okay yeah we're gonna all right well I walked away from my contract but yes

Okay, this is already getting more interesting I thought okay long story short. Hi Rose Trache Trache how are you I am good I'm

good how are you well so we met last night because so New Fest which is the gay

and lesbian New York Film Festival

similar to like Outfest in LA and Frameline

in San Francisco.

So it's the 30th anniversary of Go Fish.

And of course there's the New Fest Film Festival, but they also have programming throughout the year and so to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Go Fish, you worked on a restoration of the original film, putting it in 4K, which that I don't, I have no idea what that means, but it did look better.

Yes.

So what does that mean? What does it mean? What does it mean to sort of restore

revitalize a film? It really depends on your budget, right? We didn't have, we got money from UCLA, we got money from the

Motion Picture Academy, from MGM Amazon, from Sundance. These forces came together to kind of just,

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