A Los Angeles brick-and-mortar film space founded and helmed by women, Vidiots was opened as an alternative video store in 1985 by L.A. natives Patty Polinger and Cathy Tauber. In 2012, Vidiots became a 501(c)3 non-profit, and in 2016, veteran film programmer Maggie Mackay joined as Vidiots' first Executive Director.
Maggie Mackay, the Executive Director of the infamous VIDIOTS, joins us for a conversation on quarantine and the history of VIDIOTS: an all-women-run cult video store which originally opened up in the mid 1980’s.