Janice Engel is the director and producer of the documentary Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins. The film premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and screened at the 2019 SFFILM in San Francisco. Engel shares how the idea for the film was born and why they decided to make it. The… Continue Reading
We are excited to share about our new 10-part Women in Arts, Science and Technology (STEAM) series that airs in some PBS and Independent TV stations in the US. The guests or the “hidden figures” featured in this new STEAM series are: Lois Vossen, Executive Producer, Independent Lens, PBS Part-1 Lois Vossen, Executive Producer, Independent Lens,… Continue Reading
Celeste Ford is a rocket scientist turned entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Stellar Solutions that is headquartered in Silicon Valley. We sat down with Ford to find out how she got interested in science and math in school? What led her to study engineering? Why did she decide to become an entrepreneur… Continue Reading
Dr. Isabel Hawkins is an astronomer and an educator at San Francisco’s Exploratorium. She shares how she developed a fascination for stars from an early age and how she pursued her interests and became an astronomer. But, how does one become an astronomer? What are some of the practical applications of studying astronomy? Dr. Hawkins describes… Continue Reading
Shivani Govil was VP, Artificial Intelligence & Cognitive Products at SAP Ariba when we recorded this conversation. She is now EVP of Emerging Tech and Ecosystem, Sage, an enterprise software company. We sat down with Govil to find out about there work in artificial intelligence and big data and how she got interested in science and… Continue Reading
Director Stanley Nelson’s new documentary Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool makes for an absorbing watch. Nelson uses rare archival footage, photos and interviews with musicians to paint us a complex picture of this famous and complicated musician and composer. The film is named after the 1957 seminal album Birth of Cool, which is considered as an… Continue Reading
The annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest is back for 3 days from Aug 9 through Aug 11, 2019. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the festival and is studded with a wonderful line-up of music. The festival will be held in downtown San Jose spread across different stages and venues like the Main… Continue Reading
Very excited to share that Western Reserve Public Media, a PBS affiliate in Ohio starts broadcasting our 5-part series with Silicon Valley pioneers Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld. The series airs on WNEO’s Fusion channel starting on Monday, Aug 5, 2019 at 8.30 pm. Atkinson and Hertzfeld joined Apple Computers in the late 1970s and were… Continue Reading
Science, education and teaching is what Dr. Julie Yu is passionate about and that is what keeps her engaged in her role as a Senior Scientists at the Exploratorium, San Francisco. We bring you a 2-part conversation with Dr. Yu. We sat down with her to find out how she developed an interest in… Continue Reading
Tracy Edwards is a sailor, entrepreneur, author and a social activist. Edwards journey is brilliantly captured in Alex Holme’s 2019 documentary Maiden. Edwards is a trailblazer, who captioned the first all-female sailing crew sailed around the world. This was in 1989 when Edwards and her crew successfully participated and completed the Whitbread race. Their journey… Continue Reading
Meet Jyotsna Kaki, program manager at Google in Mountain View, CA. She never imagined she would end up working at Google. Kaki’s story in an inspirational one filled with grit, determination and a dogged refusal to give up. Kaki’s father recommended she consider studying computer science since it provides strong career path. She refused to… Continue Reading
Lois Vossen is executive producer at Independent Lens, PBS in San Francisco. This clip is a highlight of our upcoming 2-part interview with Vossen, who shares how she grew up in a farm in Minnesota and never dreamt that one day she would be living in San Francisco and working with filmmakers. Imagine her utter… Continue Reading
Tracy Edwards is a trailblazer, who was the captain of the first all-female sailing crew that sailed around the world. This was in 1989 when Edwards and her crew successfully participated and completed the Whitbread race. They sailed for 9 months and were the first all-female crew to sail in this race. The name of… Continue Reading
WHUT-TV, PBS station in Washington DC is airing our 5-part series with Silicon Valley pioneers Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson. You can watch the series in July on Wednesday nights 8.30 pm EST. Here is the schedule: Wednesday, July 3, 2019 – Bill Atkinson Part-1 Wednesday, July 10, 2019 – Bill Atkinson Part-2 Wednesday, July… Continue Reading
Tom Quinn wrote and directed Colewell, a quiet and evocative film set in a rural town in Pennsylvania. The film stars Karen Allen, Kevin J. O’Connor and others. Colewell had its world premiere at the 2019 SFFILM, which is where we caught up with Quinn. We spoke about the making of Colewell, how he got… Continue Reading
In our Women in Science and Technology TV series from Silicon Valley we speak with Linda Pouliot and Dr. Kristina Yu. Pouliot is a serial entrepreneur & founder of Dishcraft Robotics, while Yu is Director of the Living Systems Department at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Pouliot and Yu share who mentored them, how they… Continue Reading
The remarkable rise & fall of John DeLorean, an engineer & automobile entrepreneur, is the subject of Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott’s fascinating documentary Framing John DeLorean. The film makes for an absorbing watch and highlights how ambition & greed undid a plucky engineer-entrepreneur’s achievements and eventually ruined his family, members of his company… Continue Reading
Karen Allen is an actor, director and a textile designer. We caught up with Allen at 2019 SFFILM in San Francisco where her new film Colewell by director Tom Quinn had its world premier. Colewell is a poetic film with a touch of melancholy on how economic change is re-shaping small towns in rural America.… Continue Reading
The 18th San Francisco Documentary Film Festival runs for 2 weeks from May 29 to June 13, 2019 at Roxie and Brava Theaters in San Francisco. The films shown at the festival range from comedy, social justice, environment, LGBT, religion, politics, music, dance, pop culture and many more topics. The festival tagline says it all:… Continue Reading
Austin’s PBS station KLRU is broadcasting our 5-part series with Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson, who were the original members of the Macintosh team at Apple. After working at Apple they left to start their own startup. Atkinson, Hertzfeld and Marc Porat co-founded General Magic, one of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley in the… Continue Reading
Steve Paolini is an engineer turned entrepreneur and is the President of Telelumen, that he founded in 2007 in Silicon Valley. In Part-2 of our conversation we talk to him about growing up in Pennsylvania and how he dreamt of being an engineer. He knew as a 10 year old that he wanted to be… Continue Reading
Marc Porat is an entrepreneur, venture capitalists and co-founder of General Magic. He coined the phrase “information economy.” In this wide ranging interview we talk to Porat on information economy and the frontier of privacy and how he came to co-found Genera Magic in 1990 and why he thinks Silicon Valley reminds him of Florence… Continue Reading
, KCOS-TV, PBS station in El Paso, Texas is broadcasting Season 2 of our Women in Science and Technology in Silicon Valley series. On Thursday, May 16, 2019 you can watch our conversation with Hadiyah Muhjid, Founder and CEO of HBCUvc. Mujhid is a software engineer, who worked for corporations before becoming an entrepreneur. And on… Continue Reading
Karen Allen got her first acting role in National Lampon’s Animal House, an iconic 1978 comedy directed by John Landis. We got an opportunity to ask Allen how she got to be a part of Animal House that became a box-office hit. After National Lampon’s Animal House Allen went on to act in many feature… Continue Reading
Marc Porat coined the term “information economy” in the 1970s. There was an information revolution in the air in the early 1970s shares Porat and that was the subject of his PhD thesis at Stanford in 1976. Porat grew up in the 1960s during a period of revolution as he puts it. In the US… Continue Reading
Ask Dr. Ruth, The White Crow and Long Day’s Journey Into Night are three of the films that are currently playing in a theatre near you in the US. Two of the films are biopics and the third is a moody film noir from China. Director Ryan White’s biopic Ask Dr Ruth makes for an interesting watch.… Continue Reading
Megan Smith is CEO of shift7 and 3rd US CTO and I got an opportunity to interview her a while back. In this wide-ranging conversation Smith talks about her work at Apple and General Magic, how she decided to study engineering and her work with President Obama as the 3rd US CTO and what keeps… Continue Reading
The 24th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival is back and runs from May 1 through May 5, 2019 at the Castro Theatre. This annual 5-day event is a wonderful tribute to the silent film era from the the 1920s and 1930s before talkies took over and became popular. The festival is studded with fantastic… Continue Reading
Ever wondered how to correctly pronounce actor John Turturro’s last name? I wondered about the correct way to pronounce his name since he is one of my favorite actors. I got an opportunity to ask Turturro that question in 2014. Turturro was in San Francisco for the press junket of Fading Gigolothat he wrote, directed and… Continue Reading
San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM Festival) is the longest running film festival in the US. This year marks its 62nd year and the festival runs from April 10 through April 23, 2019. San Francisco, Berkeley and Oakland are the 3 venues where you can catch the films and listen to filmmakers talk about their… Continue Reading
The Kamla Show 