For the final episode of our first season, we're turning the mic around and interviewing co-producer and editor, Ali Cotterill. A filmmaker and editor, Ali has cultivated and participated in a number of networks of peers in order to get a better sense of what gigs to take, how to get them, and what they should pay—information that can feel impossible to access in many areas of the arts. She also helped give Alexis a fair amount of perspective when they were both work on their first feature-length films around the same time.

In this episode we'll dig into Ali's path into film, which started in no small part because of her early start as a drag king, and we'll also get into the realities of documentary film budgets, beyond the smoke and mirrors so many independent filmmakers are presented with when trying to enter a field that can feel completely financially inaccessible.

Our interview was recorded in September 2020.