Sundance Hat Trick

  • January 29, 2025
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Meet the filmmakers behind The Librarians, Move Ya Body, and Middletown. Plus, Armed Queers of SLC invites you to 'Resist, Reclaim, Rebuild.'

Tonight's show features the following people, organizations and/or events. Check them out and get plugged into your community!

RadioACTive passes the microphone to Ermiya Fanaeian & Seth Johns of Armed Queers of SLC,  "a revolutionary LGBTQ organization dedicated to the defense, and success, of oppressed people’s movements."   

  • Feb. 1: Resist, Reclaim, Rebuild with Armed Queers SLC, 12-1:30 p.m. @ Church & State, 370 S. 300 E., SLC. Join Armed Queers of Salt Lake City for an "educational workshop on how to build a working-class culture capable of resisting our oppression." 

Sundance Hat Trick with RadioACTive Team:

  • The five librarians who are the subjects of the Sarah Jessica Parker executive-produced documentary, The Librarians, appeared on the press line for the film's premiere on Friday, January 24. The doc follows the librarian activists who have joined forces to defend intellectual freedom in a time when books are being banned at an alarming rate. Red Carpet Correspondent Autumn Thatchers speaks with Louisiana-based librarian, educator, and author Amanda Jones — who has received death threats for speaking out against banned books — and Carolyn Foote, a Texas-based educator and librarian. 

  • Valene MC chats with Directors + Writers Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine of the documentary film, Middletown, inspired by an unconventional teacher, a group of teenagers in upstate New York in the early 1990s made a student film that uncovered a vast conspiracy involving toxic waste that was poisoning their community. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience. McBaine and Moss’ have won at Sundance at the Emmies for their docs Girls State and Boys State.

    • SCREENING: Sunday, Feb 2, 3:15 PM MST at Salt Lake City Broadway Centre Cinemas with special Q+A High School Teacher, Fred Isseks’ of Middletown. Ticket Info.

  • Radioactive's Connor Estes had the opportunity to talk to Elegance Bratton and Chester Gordon, director and producer of Move Ya Body: The Birth of House. The film looks at the beginnings of Chicago House music and how it changed the musical landscape across the globe forever. You can still catch a screening of the film on February 2nd as part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. More info on Instagram @moveyabodyfilm.

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How'd you like the show? To share your thoughts, suggestions and observations, call the RadioACTive hotline: ‪(385) 800-1889‬. Or, send a voicememo to radioactive@krcl.org. Either way, be sure to tell us your name and neighborhood, the subject or guest you want to talk about, and then leave a short message. 

Guests' views, thoughts, or opinions are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of the board, staff, or members of  Community Radio of Utah, KRCL 90.9fm. Tonight's RadioACTive team included:

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