Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers

New Episode # 57

Submarine Entertainment 

$12 million documentary sale to Apple+ and much more

Producers Rep

JOSH BRAUN

New Episode # 58

New documentary Oscar rules 

AMPAS official

TOM OYER

 Episode #54   May 27, 2020

Director Benjamin Ree

and

Exec Producer Morgan Neville

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

and 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 # 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 # 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

https://www.monumentreleasing.com/pahokee

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 # 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 # 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 # 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 # 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