Stephanie Valle and Lisa Elliott are back with season two of the Plaza Classic Podcast, which debuts September 26 with a special double feature devoted to this year’s Oculto Film Fest.
Stephanie and Lisa interviewed Oculto co-founders and filmmakers Cabe Tejada and Angel Benitez in English, and Jaime Mendez interviewed them in Spanish.
This is the sixth year for the Oculto Film Fest, an affiliate of the El Paso Community Foundation, but its second year in El Paso. It’s from October 4-6, 2024 at the Philanthropy Theatre, part of the Plaza Theatre Performing Arts Centre complex. Tickets are on sale at the Plaza Theatre Box Office and Ticketmaster. The Juárez portion will be October 11-13.
Opening night will feature a screening of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in the Philanthropy, plus an appearance by the film’s star, Tuesday Knight, who also will appear at a post-screening reception in EPCF’s Foundation Room.
Go to the Oculto website for more details. Click here if you’d like to donate to Oculto.
The Plaza Classic Podcast is a sometimes irreverent, sometimes serious look into the many people, films and other aspects of the El Paso Community Foundation Plaza Classic Film Festival, which returns for its 18th year July 17-27, 2025.
The podcast’s first season focused on some of the films in the 2024 edition of the film festival, including the annual The Rocky Horror Picture Show screening and the return of The Goonies, plus local filmmakers such as Josh Pulido, and various members of the Plaza Classic Film Festival Program Advisory Committee, which includes Stephanie (KVIA news anchor), Lisa (EPCC mass comm professor) and Jaime (UTEP’s Assistant Dean of Students).
A special bonus episode features Stephanie’s on-stage interview with Mira Sorvino before a screening of Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion at this year’s PCFF.
Look for new episodes every two weeks. It’s available just about everywhere, including here.
The Plaza Classic Podcast is a coproduction of the El Paso Community Foundation and El Paso Community College.
Pictured: Jaime Mendez (left) interviews Oculto’s Angel Benitez (center) and Cabe Tejada.
