Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers
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New Episode # 98
How he stole $500 million dollars
Conversation with Producers Directors
James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte
New Episode # 96
The making of "Fiddler on the Roof" doc
Producer Director
DANIEL RAIM
New Episode # 97
Hippie millionaire tries to give away his inheritance.
"Dear Mr. Brody" Director
KEITH MAITLAND
Episode #93 Ma1 1, 2022
"THE WINDSHIELD WIPER"
Oscar WINNER Animated Short
Link to full film here
ALBERTO MIELGO
Episode # 94 Mar 21, 2022
An in depth conversation with
KEN BURNS
"Benjamin Franklin" and much more.
New Episode # 95
"The Unmaking of a College"
A raucous ode to democracy in action
A film by
AMY GOLDSTEIN
Episode #90 Jan 16, 2022
"THE RESCUE"
2022 DGA Doc Nominee!
Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chinn
Oscar winners producing the impossible
Episode # 91 Feb 17, 2022
"AUDIBLE"
Oscar nominated short documentary
Producer Director
MATT OGENS
Episode # 92 Feb 16, 2022
"DOWNFALL: The Case Against Boeing"
RORY KENNEDY
How a priority of profit over people
pushed Boeing over the edge
Episode #87 Nov 29, 2021
Lost and Found takes on a new meaning.
THE LOST LEONARDO
Conversation with the Director
ANDREAS KOEFOED
Episode # 88 Dec 15, 2021
Super Stars and Making MegaDoc Series
Executive Producer
JANE ROOT
(Shown below Producer/Host Will Smith)
Episode # 89 Jan 10. 2022
SUMMER OF SOUL
(...or when the revolution could not be televised)
AHMIR "QUESTLOVE" THOMPSON
JOSEPH PATEL
Oscar WINNER
Episode # 84 Oct 28, 2021
IGAL SVET
VP of Documentaries
Discovery+ is in the Doc business
Episode # 86 Oct 18, 2021
Short Listed Oscar Doc!
Inside New York's busiest hospital during
THE FIRST WAVE
Director MATTHEW HEINMAN
Episode # 85 Sept 30, 2021
40 years to make a doc and worth the wait
"Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time"
Producer Director
ROBERT WEIDE
Episode # 81 Sept. 1, 2021
"THE SIX"
Chinese passengers on the Titanic?
Arthur Jones and Luo Tong
Episode # 82 Sept 22. 2021
"INTRODUCING SELMA BLAIR"
Compelling cinema vérité feature doc from
RACHEL FLEIT
Episode # 83 Oct 25, 2021
"Viewers Like Us"
Diversity and Ken Burns
GRACE LEE
Episode # 78 Aug 6 2021
"WHIRLYBIRD"
It's not about helicopters.
1st time feature director must see documentary.
MATT YOKA
Episode # 79 Sep 2, 2021
His father won best documentary Oscar.
His grandfather wrote "Citizen Kane."
Producer Director NICK DAVIS has nothing to prove.
Episode # 80 Sep 15, 2021
"NUISANCE BEAR"
Two young filmmakers go polar bear hunting
with a camera!
Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden
Episode # 75 May 8, 2021
Director MATTHEW WALKER
"I'm Wanita"
Queen of Honky Tonk goes to Nashville
Episode # 76 June 6, 2021
Third Generation Cinematographer
JENNA ROSHER
Shooting Billie Eilish for RJ and Apple
Episode # 77 July 9, 2021
Producer Director Writer Financier
ANDRE GAINES
Why you should know about Dick Gregory
Episode # 72. April 12, 2021
2021 Hotdocs film by
BILLIE MINTZ
"PORTRAYAL"
"A dark secret involving thousands of missing paintings."
Episode #69 Feb 2, 2021
"HYSTERICAL GIRL"
Freud and his female patient
Oscar short listed documentary
Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi
Episode # 66 Jan 16, 2021
ALEXANDRA PELOSI
No Crew. Small camera. Great Film
"American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself"
Episode # 73 April 22, 2021
World Premiere 2021 Hotdocs
JESSE McCRACKEN
"GREY ROADS"
"A moving personal film to reconnect
with his family.
Episode # 70 Feb 19, 2021
"DO NOT SPLIT"
ANDERS HAMMER goes inside the Hong Kong
protests and produces a nerve wracking
Oscar doc short NOMINEE!
Episode # 67 Jan 23, 2021
"COLETTE"
Major game company backs an emotional
Oscar short doc WINNER!
Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
Episode # 74 June 19, 2021
2021 Hot Docs film by
SHEONA McDONALD
"Dead Man's Switch a crypto mystery"
Is he really dead? Million$ missing.
Episode # 71. Mar 2, 2021
"The Speed Cubers"
It's a lot more than you think
Oscar® Doc Short Listed
First time Producer Director
SUE KIM
Episode #68 Jan 26, 2021
"HUNTSVILLE STATION"
Stanford Univ Documentary Professor
and former MFA student produce doc Short
Jamie Meltzer and Chris Filippone
Episode # 63 Oct 22, 2020
"MY OCTOPUS TEACHER"
Oscar feature Doc WINNER!
Director PIPPA EHRLICH
Episode # 60 Aug 13, 2020
FATHER SOLDIER SON
"Stunning Masterpiece Documentary"
Conversation with the directors
Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis
Episode # 64 Dec 1, 2020
"BELUSHI"
Producer, Director, Writer
R.J. CUTLER
Episode # 65 Dec 8, 2020
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS
MICHAEL DWECK and GREGORY KERSHAW
DGA WINNER!
Episode # 61 Aug 17, 2020
COUP 53
Oscar winner Walter Murch teams with
Taghi Amirani featuring
Ralph Fiennes
Episode # 62 Oct 15, 2020
"TIME"
An epic love story from
Oscar feature doc NOMINEE!
Garrett Bradley
Episode # 57 July 7, 2020
Submarine Ent. Producers Rep
$12 million doc sale to Apple+ and much more
JOSH BRAUN
Episode #54 May 27, 2020
Director Benjamin Ree and
Exec Producer Morgan Neville
Oscar short listed documentary
Episode # 51 April 21, 2020
$80 million of fake art - HotDocs 2020
Producer Director
BARRY AVRICH
Episode # 48. Mar 9, 2020
Marion Stokes recorded 30 years of tv
MATT WOLF archived her life and videos.
Episode # 45 Dec 14, 2019
"APOLLO 11"
OSCAR SHORT LIST
Producer Director Editor
TODD DOUGLAS MILLER
Episode # 42 October, 2019
22 New original documentaries each season
19 Emmys, 10 Oscar noms, 16 Peabodys
Independent Lens Executive Producer
LOIS VOSSEN
Episode # 39 Sept 10, 2019
"THIS IS NOT A MOVIE"
Director Yung Chang and the subject of his doc,
journalist Robert Fisk.
Episode # 36 July 22, 2019
"HONEYLAND"
OSCAR NOMINATION!
Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov
Episode # 33 June 13, 2019
"Sea of Shadows"
He risked his life to try to save the planet
Director and Cinematographer
RICHARD LADKANI
Episode # 30 May 3, 2019
"Butterfly"
Hot Docs 2019
Director CASEY KAUFFMAN
Episode # 27 April 19, 2019
"PIPE DREAMS"
Hot Docs 2019
STACEY TENENBAUM
Episode # 58 May 28, 2020
New documentary Oscar rules
AMPAS official
TOM OYER
Episode # 55 May 27, 2020
MORGAN NEVILLE
Oscar winner talks about
his documentary films.
Episode # 52 April 23, 2020
"911 Kids"
HotDocs 2020
STEVE GAMESTER & ELIZABETH ST. PHILIP
Episode # 49 Mar 13, 2020
Photographic Orchestra Conductor
RICK SMOLAN
Episode # 46 Jan 3, 2020
Oscars, Emmys, HBO and MTV
Executive Producer
SHEILA NEVINS
Episode # 43 November 2019
Executive Director of the
International Documentary Association
SIMON KILMURRY
Episode # 40 Sept. 12, 2019
"Where's My Roy Cohn?"
new feature documentary by
MATT TYRNAUR
Episode # 37 August 27, 2019
Multimillion-dollar business from
user-genrated videos. Jukin Media CEO
JONATHAN SKOGMO
Episode #34 July 15, 2019
Netflix documentary series
"Making A Murderer"
Defense attorney
DEAN STRANG
Episode # 31 May 15, 2019
50 shows, 2500 episodes
Executive Producer
SCOTT STONE
Episode #28 April 25 2019
"Killing Patient Zero"
Hot Docs 2019
Director LAURIE LYND
Episode # 59 August 16, 2020
"The Fight"
Heroic lawyers battle for you
Producers & Directors
ELYSE STEINBERG and JOSH KRIEGMAN
Episode # 56 June 8, 2020
"Belly of the Beast"
Could not be more timely than now.
ERIKA COHN
Episode # 53 April 29, 2020
"PAHOKEE"
Stunning iportrait of four teens in rural Florida
PATRICK BRESNAN & IVETE LUCAS
Episode # 50 Mar 16, 2020
"Most important documentarian of our time."
ALEX GIBNEY
Episode # 47 Feb 12, 2020
"No one makes documentaries the way
DAVID SUTHERLAND
And perhaps no one ever will; the toll is too great."
Episode # 44 Nov 21, 2019
"FIRE IN PARADISE"
OSCAR SHORT LIST
Producer Director
DREA COOPER
Episode # 41 October 15, 2019
He came to L.A. with two ideas.
"Mike Wallace Is Here" and
"No One Saw a Thing"
AVI BELKIN
Episode # 38 September 3, 2019
"COPPERS" premiered at TIFF
His 10th feature doc
ALAN ZWEIG
Episode # 35 July 26, 2019
OSCAR NOMINATION!
"FOR SAMA"
IDA Winner Best Feature
Episode # 32 May 19, 2019
Restoration of William Wyler WWII raw footage
"The Cold Blue" Producer-Director
ERIK NELSON
Episode # 29 May 3, 2019
"INSIDE LEHMAN BROTHERS"
Hot Docs 2019
Director JENNIFER DESCHAMPS
Episode # 24 March 8, 2019
He's on a mission to save the world
Oscar nominated
"Lifeboat"
SKYE FITZGERALD
Episode 21 October 11, 2018
RaMell Ross
Producer, Director, Cameraman
OSCAR NOMINEE
HALE COUNTY, THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING
Episode 18 August 8, 2018
Doc feature about Oscar® winning filmmaker Hal Ashby "HAL"
AMY SCOTT
Episode #15 July 17, 2018
DGA Winner Best Doc!
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
TIM WARDLE
Episode # 12 May 9, 2018
Imax - The BIG Picture
Greg Macgillvray, Stephen Low,
Sean Philips, Mark Krenzien,
Episode #9 March 21, 2018
Show Me The Money:How to Get Grants
Toni Bell (IDA) Monika Navarro (ITVS)
Jonathan Skurnik (Filmmaker) author Morrie Warshawski
Episode #25 March 25, 2019
Hybrid, Producer, Director, Writer
"I Am Richard Pryor"
JESSE JAMES MILLER
Episode # 22 Nov 1, 2018
Director Writer
Anna Zamecka
Oscar Short List
"COMMUNION"
Episode # 19 August 23, 2018
EVP Non-Fiction and Alternate Programming
AMC and SundanceTV
ELIOT GOLDBERG
Episode # 16 - July 11, 2018
Producer, Director, Disruptor
We Live In Public to Mappelthorpe
ONDI TIMONER
Episode #13 May 22, 2018
National Geographic Channel
Vice President of Development
CHARLILE PARSONS
Episode #10 April 3, 2018
The Making of the Netflix Documentary series
"Shot In The Dark"
Jeff Daniels, Tom Djokaj, Howard Raishbrook
Episode # 26 April 14, 2019
HotDocs 2019
"There Are No Fakes"
JAMIE KASTNER
Episode #23 November 18, 2018
Director feature Documentary
Michael Dweck
THE LAST RACE
Episode 20 LIVE August 29th
Different paths to Documentary Distribution
JAMES SWIRSKY, LISANNE PAJOT
and BRADLEY OLSEN
Episode #17 July 17, 2018
What do Robin Williams, Richard Pryor,
Roman Polanski, and ESPN have in common?
MARINA ZENOVICH
Episode #14 June 13, 2018
PBS American Masters
Series Executive Producer
MICHAEL KANTOR
Episode # 11 April 18, 2018
Hot Docs at HotDocs
Five directors at the largest doc
film festival in North America.
Episode # 6 February 20, 2018
STEVE JAMES
"Hoop Dreams" and "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail"
Episode 7 March 7, 2018
The Business of Online
Tom Antos, Josh Enobakhare,
Brandon Li. Erik Naso
Episode #8 March 10, 2018
Oscar Documentary Winner How he won
FRANK STIEFEL
Episode # 3 January 23, 2018
Oscar Documentary Short Nominees
Laura Checkoway, Edith+Eddy
Frank Stiefel, Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405
Thomas Lennon, Knife Skills
Elaine McMillion, Heroin(e)
Episode #4 Jan 18, 2018
Documentary short "Kayayo"
director Mari Bakke Riise and the complete 32 minute film.
Episode #5 Feb 6, 2018
Licensing Clips: Do's and Dont's
Lisa Callif, attorney at Donaldson + Callif
Jonathan Chinn, Exec Producer, Lightbox, LA '92
Steve Kozak, AMCUP
Jason Teichman, CEO of Pond5
Episode # 1 December 5, 2017
PROMOTING YOUR DOC to OSCAR VOTERS
Chuck Braverman, Moderator
Julie Goldman, Producer
Scott Feinberg, Hollywood Reporter
David Magdael, PR Guru
David Oyer, AMPAS
Episode # 2 January 9, 2018
DISTRIBUTION CHOICES
Richard Abramowitz, Abramorama
Cristine Dewey, ro*co films
Orly Ravid, The Film Collaborative
Jonathan Dana, Code Entertainment
Chuck Braverman, Moderator
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