Sep 11, 2026 · 51 min · 12 segments
Finding the Next Scream: Rachel Belofsky Screamfest founder and festival director Rachel Belofsky joins Timecode: DEAD AIR to talk about […]
Rachel BelofskyGuest
Jon WoodHost
I, I guess I'll take a step back, 'cause you had mentioned the women in auto racing thing.
I, uh, a neighbor of mine where I was living wanted to do a documentary about, um, more on being an armchair enthusiast watching NASCAR.
So I was like, "Okay, I, I can raise some money for that and I can produce that." And as it, it kinda started developing, it sorta became, till the end, when he fulfilled myself, you know, keep talking about when I was a little kid, and was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What?" So, so that sort of seemed to be, like, his, whatever, his own journey.
[laughs] And I was like, "Okay, yeah, you go find the money for that project, and then I'll produce that for you, but I'm not spending 50 grand on that." So he already had raised the money, and it was funny, every, um- ...
avenue that we, you know, looking, you know, looking for funding or whatever, kept landing on these women in auto racing sites.
And I was like, "I'm not looking for this." So it kept happening and happening, and then so when we realized that we were g- the director and I, we were gonna step away from the project we were originally gonna do, because like I said, that became more about that person's life than actually whatever is fine.
I'm like, "Yeah, you don't hear much about that." And so I was sort of like, "Maybe we should do that." And then it was really cool, 'cause, you know, I didn't...
I love NASCAR, but I've never really, um, studied about the female, you know, racers and that kind of thing.
You know, we did some local dirt track NASCAR up in, uh, N- North- Northern California.
We traveled to North Carolina for the Coca-Cola 600, um, I think it was called back in those days.
I, I guess I'll take a step back, 'cause you had mentioned the women in auto racing thing.
I, uh, a neighbor of mine where I was living wanted to do a documentary about, um, more on being an armchair enthusiast watching NASCAR.
So I was like, "Okay, I, I can raise some money for that and I can produce that." And as it, it kinda started developing, it sorta became, till the end, when he fulfilled myself, you know, keep talking about when I was a little kid, and was like, "Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What?" So, so that sort of seemed to be, like, his, whatever, his own journey.
[laughs] And I was like, "Okay, yeah, you go find the money for that project, and then I'll produce that for you, but I'm not spending 50 grand on that." So he already had raised the money, and it was funny, every, um- ...
avenue that we, you know, looking, you know, looking for funding or whatever, kept landing on these women in auto racing sites.
And I was like, "I'm not looking for this." So it kept happening and happening, and then so when we realized that we were g- the director and I, we were gonna step away from the project we were originally gonna do, because like I said, that became more about that person's life than actually whatever is fine.
I'm like, "Yeah, you don't hear much about that." And so I was sort of like, "Maybe we should do that." And then it was really cool, 'cause, you know, I didn't...
I love NASCAR, but I've never really, um, studied about the female, you know, racers and that kind of thing.
You know, we did some local dirt track NASCAR up in, uh, N- North- Northern California.
We traveled to North Carolina for the Coca-Cola 600, um, I think it was called back in those days.
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