Episode
SXSW 2026 - Black Zombie and Scarlet Girls
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- Bitch Talk Podcast
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- Apr 3, 2026
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- 1567
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Summary
Send us Fan Mail Black Zombie unearths the buried origins of the zombie, from Hollywood horror to the haunted cane fields of colonized Haiti. Director Maya Annik Bedward joins us to share why this cultural reckoning is so important for Haiti, her difficulties in figuring out what to include in the film, and how a special scene with Erol Josué, General Director of Haiti's National Bureau of Ethnology and Vodou Priest, was one of the most beautiful things she's ever filmed. In Scarlet Girls, wo...