Film interviews with craft, heart, and purpose.
The Jan Price Show talks with film people about the stories, risks, craft, and persistence behind new releases. Its conversations move easily from casting, financing, and location work to grief, faith, race, family, endurance, and why a movie might matter now.
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The Jan Price Show is a warm, interview-centered film program built around the people making movies and documentaries. It has the shape of a release conversation, but the center of gravity is craft, persistence, and emotional purpose. Guests are invited to explain what their films are, how they came together, and why the stories are arriving at a particular moment. The tone is admiring without becoming distant. It makes room for enthusiasm, serious history, and practical filmmaking detail in the same breath. Recent conversations range widely. The Gardener becomes a story about a 30-year creative journey, spiritual signals, casting, and the patience required when an independent film nearly happens more than once. Baseball: Beyond Belief opens into faith, community, Japanese American wartime incarceration, family legacy, and the way baseball can carry people through adversity. Preschool brings the mood lighter, turning rival dads and private-school pressure into a conversation about parenting comedy, improvisation, and acting while directing. Step Back, Doors Closing frames romantic comedy as relief in a heavy world, while still acknowledging how long films take and how hard trends are to chase. White Man Walking brings direct attention to race, public confrontation, and the choice to carry a Black Lives Matter message across the Deep South and Midwest. The Optimist turns toward Holocaust memory, healing, Prague, Terezin, and the responsibility of filming true trauma with care. Trango follows expedition filmmaking, athlete commitment, weather delays, mountain logistics, and the visual force of a ski descent story. Broke leans into survival, rodeo, family fragments, and the physical pressure of a cowboy stranded in a blizzard. Across all of it, the show keeps asking how the work was made and what it might give an audience. It is film talk with heart, curiosity, and a clear fondness for makers who kept going.
Made for: For movie lovers who enjoy interviews with actors, directors, producers, and documentary makers, especially when the conversation goes beyond publicity into process and meaning. It also suits listeners drawn to independent film, true stories, and behind-the-scenes production detail.
What sets it apart: The show blends promotional access with unusually warm attention to the emotional and practical journey behind each film. It is less about sharp critique than about helping filmmakers explain the work, the struggle, and the audience impact they hope for.
The Jan Price Show, All About Movies, explores every facet of the moviemaking and movie-watching experience from initial story development and film production through its impact on in-theater and streaming audiences. The Jan Price Show, All About Movies, provides an insider’s look at independent films and documentaries, featuring behind-the-scenes stories and interviews that capture the essence of the film festival experience for a global listening audience of movie lovers. The Jan Price Show, All About Movies, launched in 2016 on the iHeart Radio Network, which streams worldwide. Her show airs weekly across all major podcast platforms, including iHeart Podcast Network, Apple Podcast, Spotif…
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jan Price turns filmmaker interviews into accessible accounts of casting, production, creative intent and the long persistence required to reach the screen.
Jan Price starts from a candid response to each film, then turns that enthusiasm into questions about how the work reached the screen. Conversations move through premise, creative origins, casting, production obstacles and where the finished film can be seen, giving the…
A film takes 30 years to make; Jan Price wants to know how its star finally came aboard.
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Dabney Day recounts the spiritual beginnings, casting search and persistence behind her 30-year journey with The Gardener.
The Gardener took 30 years to make, and Dabney Day has more to talk about than the finished film. Jan Price traces its start at a meditation retreat in the Yosemite mountains, the failed attempts to get it made, the search for a lead and the private Ojai screening where she…
A warm documentary conversation about baseball as purpose, community, and resilience amid historical trauma.
Jan Price's conversation with award-winning writer, director, and producer John Sheinfeld centers on Baseball Beyond Belief as a story about baseball restoring purpose under brutal conditions.
A warm, serious introduction to a film about hidden pain becoming a way to help others.
Finn Taylor's conversation with Jan Price opens on a film that has already left its host in tears. The Optimist is framed as the true story of a beloved shop owner in a small Northern California town who carried a secret for 60 years, even from his wife and children, before…
A warm film conversation about weather, permits, persistence, and a mountain effort shaped across two attempts.
The Jan Price Show treats Trango less as a standard mountain-film story than as a study in endurance, trust, and the cost of going back. Executive producer Kaki Orr and cinematographer-director Leo Horn trace a first attempt that yielded striking photography but left the central…
A warm first-feature conversation about Broke's blizzard premise and the ensemble built around it.
Carlisle Eubank, director, producer, and writer of Broke, walks through a survival story about a cowboy who wakes in a blizzard with no memory of how he got there and only the supplies in his truck and trailer to keep him alive.
A warm, candid conversation about menopause, self-respect, and a stand-up storytelling concert film.
The Jan Price Show frames Satori Shakur's Confessions of a Menopausal Femme Fatale around a useful correction: this is not a talking-head documentary, but a stand-up storytelling concert film shaped by comedy, story, and song.
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Director Carlisle Eubank discusses his debut film 'Broke', a gritty western about a cowboy lost in a blizzard.
Jan Price interviews Satori Shakoor about her stand-up storytelling concert film 'Confessions of a Menopausal Femme Fatale'.
Oscar-winning production designers Sandy and David Wasco discuss their careers and work with directors like Tarantino and Chazelle.
Costume designer Molly Emma Rowe discusses her work on the film Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Filmmaker Darcy Weir discusses his new documentary 'Pascagoula 73' about the famous 1973 alien abduction of two Mississippi men.
Emmy-winning filmmakers discuss their documentary 'The Thinking Game' about a scientist's mission to solve artificial general intelligence.
Documentary director Vaishali Sinha tells Jan Price that Give It a Shot follows a male birth-control effort dating to the 1970s.
The Jan Price Show speaks with writer-director-producer Dabney Day about The Gardener, a film she says took 30 years to reach release and begins launching April 17 in Atlanta.
The Jan Price Show speaks with John Sheinfeld about Baseball Beyond Belief, a documentary that links baseball with faith, community, and American history.
Josh Duhamel discusses his new film 'Preschool,' a comedy about competitive dads vying for preschool admission, and shares his excitement about becoming a girl dad.
Jan Price interviews filmmaker Carter Ward about his award-winning romantic indie film 'Step Back, Doors Closing' set in Washington, DC, discussing the resurgence of rom-coms and the need for lighthearted entertainment.
Rob Bliss tells Jan Price how a hostile message and his viral video “Holding a BLM Sign in America’s Most Racist Town” led to White Man Walking, a 1,500-mile journey through the Deep South and Midwest in 2020.
Herbert Heller was taken at 12, escaped at 15, and later spoke to teenagers about suicide and the Holocaust.
Kaki Orr explains that The North Face backed an original pitch to ski big lines in Pakistan, then expanded it into Trango when a climber suggested Great Trango Tower might have a skiable line.
Director Carlyle Eubank discusses his new gritty western film 'Broke' starring Wyatt Russell, Dennis Quaid, and Mary McDonnell, about a cowboy surviving a blizzard with flashbacks to his fading rodeo career.