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Voices for Change w/Greg LeeVoices for Change: Full Interview w/ Frameline's Allegra MadsenFrameline, the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, is the world's largest and longest running LGBTQ+ film festival.
The program this year included nearly 150 films from 40 countries. Greg Lee sits down with executive director, Allegra Madsen about the impact and importance of the film festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
2025-07-0104 min
Bitch Talk PodcastFrameline Film Festival Executive Director Allegra MadsenSend a textWe're excited to welcome back Frameline Film Festival's executive director, Allegra Madsen! As we celebrate the 49th anniversary of the country's longest running and largest LGBTQ+ film festival, she shares some film and party highlights to look forward to, the urgency of this moment as funding attacks threaten to erase our values and our stories, and why being in community can be both focused and fun.If you're in the Bay, the Frameline Film Festival is happening right now! For more info, click hereFollow the Frameline Film Festival on...
2025-06-2029 min
Storied: San FranciscoFrameline49 with Allegra MadsenI joined Erin and Ange of Bitch Talk Podcast for another sit-down with Frameline Executive Director Allegra Madsen to talk all things Frameline49. If it weren't obvious from that moniker, this year's is the 49th annual Frameline film festival, the largest and longest-running LGBTQIA fest in the world. After listening to this bonus episode, please browse the Frameline49 program, buy tickets, get your butt in a theater seat, and let's continue to uplift the LGBTQIA community through art! We recorded this bonus episode at the Frameline offices in South of Marked in June 2025.
2025-06-1230 min
Storied: San FranciscoFrameline Film Fest's Allegra Madsen, Part 2In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Allegra was bartending at Second City in Chicago. The day of her graduation ceremony, at Columbia College Chicago, she packed up all her belongings and drove to LA with a friend. Allegra really wanted to be in California. Not yet totally sure about what she was gonna do, she took the plunge, so to speak. She'd realized that she wasn't going to pursue art. But she figured, correctly, that in addition to the warmer climate, there would be opportunities to seize in Los Angeles. But Allegra soon found that...
2024-12-1035 min
Storied: San FranciscoFrameline Film Fest's Allegra Madsen, Part 1Allegra Madsen has a Polaroid photo of her birth. In this episode, meet and get to know Allegra. Today, she's the executive director of Frameline film fest, the biggest LGBTQIA+ movie event in the world. She might disagree, but Allegra is a big deal. (Quick side note: As we kicked off our recording, Allegra expertly solved a Rubik's Cube. No bigs.) We begin with the story of how her parents met. Allegra's dad is from Chicago originally. He taught transcendental meditation (TM) and moved all over the world. Eventually, he landed in Virginia, where he met Allegra's...
2024-12-0333 min
Storied: San FranciscoFrameline's Allegra MadsenIn this bonus episode, meet and get to know Frameline Film Festival's Executive Director Allegra Madsen. Allegra was born and grew up in southern Virginia. As she says, "It was hot, it was humid, it was Southern." From a young age, she fell in love with movies because it was so hot outside. She'd escape to theaters, where she could bask in the AC and watch movies all day long. She left that area as soon as she could. That meant Chicago for college. She wanted to be a writer. Columbia College in Chicago was known as more of a f...
2024-06-1426 min
Bitch Talk PodcastFrameline Film Festival Executive Director - Allegra MadsenSend a textWe're continuing our celebration of Pride Month by discussing the Frameline Film Festival (the world's oldest and largest LGBTQIA film festival, running June 19th-June 29th) with Executive Director, Allegra Madsen!Allegra is a badass bitch who has been able to marry her love of community building with her love of films as Frameline's newly coined Executive Director. She shares how she ended up in San Francisco, her (sometimes embarrassing) favorite movies growing up, how she was able to create a space for communities that are continually displaced in SF's Bayview district, and...
2024-06-1223 min
Detour - The Unofficial PodcastSan Francisco: Saving Bayview's WetlandsJoin Marie Harrison on her fight against a major power company to save her community and San Francisco’s wetlands.
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1 Hare St
Duration
35 minutes
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When Marie Harrison's grandson gets ill, she begins investigating the environmental toxins that seem to be causing it. Her personal crusade to get the neighborhood cleaned up turns into the beginnings of reclaiming San Francisco's wetlands where 70% of the migratory birds land, and a brand new EcoCenter and park at Heron's Head.
2015-02-0229 min