Conversations with Documentary Filmmakers
and more
New Episode # 114
LAURA POITRAS
"All The Beauty and The Bloodshed"
A profound work of art
New Episode # 111
Matthew O'Brien
tries to answer "Was film school worth it?"
His artistic round trip odyssey to Hollywood.
New Episode # 112
Life & Life Director
NC Heikin
The value of music, redemption, and life
under the shadow of a broken parole system
New Episode # 113
Billy Shebar
HIGH NOON ON THE WATERFRONT
Documentary short reveals two Oscar
winning films with a not so hidden meaning
New Episode # 108
MOONAGE DAYDREAM
Intimate Compelling Revealing conversation with
Producer Director Writer
BRETT MORGEN
New Episode # 109
LAST FLIGHT HOME
Director Writer Editor
ONDI TIMONER
Her very personal film
New Episode # 110
SAM NOW
Cryptic clues lead to his missing mother.
Reed Harkness - Director Producer Camera
Jason Reid - Producer Editor
Sam Harkness - Film Subject
New Episode # 105
HALLELUJAH:
LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG
Directors
Daniel Geller & Dayna Goldfine
New Episode # 106
90 DAY FIANCÉ
The # 1 Unscripted Series in 181 Countries!
Executive Producer
MATT SHARP
New Episode # 107
EXPOSING MUYBRIDGE
Can we believe what we see?
Writer, Producer, Director
MARC SHAFFER
Episode # 102 June 28, 2022
Exposé rocks prep school
"accepted"
First time doc director
DAN CHEN
Episode # 103 May 16, 2022
"Reality Directors"
who also make docs
RAMY ROMANY & ADAM VETRI
Episode # 104 July 12, 2022
Two women range riders off the grid herding cattle
"BITTERBRUSH"
producer SU KIM and director EMELIE MAHDAVIAN
Episode # 99 May 3, 2022
Sexual abuse and a culture of silence
"Silent Beauty"
Directed and Produced by
Jasmín Mara López
Episode #100 June 9, 2022
Sharing your life onscreen
"SUBJECT"
Produced and Directed by
Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall
Episode #101 June 14, 2022
True crime documentary mini series
"CAPTIVE AUDIENCE"
Conversation with Director
JESSICA DIMMOCK
Episode # 96 April 13, 2022
The making of "Fiddler on the Roof" doc
Producer Director
DANIEL RAIM
Episode # 97 April 26, 2022
Hippie millionaire tries to give away his inheritance.
"Dear Mr. Brody" Director
KEITH MAITLAND
Episode # 98 May 9, 2022
$500 million dollar fraud
Conversation with Directors
James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte
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.
Episode # 95 Jan 25, 2022
"The Unmaking of a College"
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
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 # 73 April 22, 2021
JESSE McCRACKEN
"GREY ROADS"
"A moving personal film to reconnect
with his family.
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 #69 Feb 2, 2021
"HYSTERICAL GIRL"
Freud and his female patient
Oscar short listed documentary
Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi
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 # 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 # 66 Jan 16, 2021
ALEXANDRA PELOSI
No Crew. Small camera. Great Film
"American Selfie: One Nation Shoots Itself"
Episode # 67 Jan 23, 2021
"COLETTE"
Major game company backs an emotional
Oscar short doc WINNER!
Anthony Giacchino and Alice Doyard
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 # 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 # 60 Aug 13, 2020
FATHER SOLDIER SON
"Stunning Masterpiece Documentary"
Conversation with the directors
Catrin Einhorn and Leslye Davis
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 # 58 May 28, 2020
New documentary Oscar rules
AMPAS official
TOM OYER
Episode # 59 August 16, 2020
"The Fight"
Heroic lawyers battle for you
Producers & Directors
ELYSE STEINBERG and JOSH KRIEGMAN
Episode #54 May 27, 2020
Director Benjamin Ree and
Exec Producer Morgan Neville
Oscar short listed documentary
Episode # 55 May 27, 2020
MORGAN NEVILLE
Oscar winner talks about
his documentary films.
Episode # 56 June 8, 2020
"Belly of the Beast"
Could not be more timely than now.
ERIKA COHN
Episode # 51 April 21, 2020
$80 million of fake art - HotDocs 2020
Producer Director
BARRY AVRICH
Episode # 52 April 23, 2020
"911 Kids"
HotDocs 2020
STEVE GAMESTER & ELIZABETH ST. PHILIP
Episode # 53 April 29, 2020
"PAHOKEE"
Stunning iportrait of four teens in rural Florida
PATRICK BRESNAN & IVETE LUCAS
Episode # 48. Mar 9, 2020
Marion Stokes recorded 30 years of tv
MATT WOLF archived her life and videos.
Episode # 49 Mar 13, 2020
Photographic Orchestra Conductor
RICK SMOLAN
Episode # 50 Mar 16, 2020
"Most important documentarian of our time."
ALEX GIBNEY
Episode # 45 Dec 14, 2019
"APOLLO 11"
OSCAR SHORT LIST
Producer Director Editor
TODD DOUGLAS MILLER
Episode # 46 Jan 3, 2020
Oscars, Emmys, HBO and MTV
Executive Producer
SHEILA NEVINS
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 # 42 October, 2019
22 New original documentaries each season
19 Emmys, 10 Oscar noms, 16 Peabodys
Independent Lens Executive Producer
LOIS VOSSEN
Episode # 43 November 2019
Executive Director of the
International Documentary Association
SIMON KILMURRY
Episode # 44 Nov 21, 2019
"FIRE IN PARADISE"
OSCAR SHORT LIST
Producer Director
DREA COOPER
Episode # 39 Sept 10, 2019
"THIS IS NOT A MOVIE"
Director Yung Chang and the subject of his doc,
journalist Robert Fisk.
Episode # 40 Sept. 12, 2019
"Where's My Roy Cohn?"
new feature documentary by
MATT TYRNAUR
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 # 37 August 27, 2019
Multimillion-dollar business from
user-genrated videos. Jukin Media CEO
JONATHAN SKOGMO
Episode # 38 September 3, 2019
"COPPERS" premiered at TIFF
His 10th feature doc
ALAN ZWEIG
Episode # 33 June 13, 2019
"Sea of Shadows"
He risked his life to try to save the planet
Director and Cinematographer
RICHARD LADKANI
Episode #34 July 15, 2019
Netflix documentary series
"Making A Murderer"
Defense attorney
DEAN STRANG
Episode # 35 July 26, 2019
OSCAR NOMINATION!
"FOR SAMA"
IDA Winner Best Feature
Episode # 30 May 3, 2019
"Butterfly"
Hot Docs 2019
Director CASEY KAUFFMAN
Episode # 31 May 15, 2019
50 shows, 2500 episodes
Executive Producer
SCOTT STONE
Episode # 32 May 19, 2019
Restoration of William Wyler WWII raw footage
"The Cold Blue" Producer-Director
ERIK NELSON
Episode # 27 April 19, 2019
"PIPE DREAMS"
Hot Docs 2019
STACEY TENENBAUM
Episode #28 April 25 2019
"Killing Patient Zero"
Hot Docs 2019
Director LAURIE LYND
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 #25 March 25, 2019
Hybrid, Producer, Director, Writer
"I Am Richard Pryor"
JESSE JAMES MILLER
Episode # 26 April 14, 2019
HotDocs 2019
"There Are No Fakes"
JAMIE KASTNER
Episode 21 October 11, 2018
RaMell Ross
Producer, Director, Cameraman
OSCAR NOMINEE
HALE COUNTY, THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING
Episode # 22 Nov 1, 2018
Director Writer
Anna Zamecka
Oscar Short List
"COMMUNION"
Episode #23 November 18, 2018
Director feature Documentary
Michael Dweck
THE LAST RACE
Episode 18 August 8, 2018
Doc feature about Oscar® winning filmmaker Hal Ashby "HAL"
AMY SCOTT
Episode # 19 August 23, 2018
EVP Non-Fiction and Alternate Programming
AMC and SundanceTV
ELIOT GOLDBERG
Episode 20 LIVE August 29th
Different paths to Documentary Distribution
JAMES SWIRSKY, LISANNE PAJOT
and BRADLEY OLSEN
Episode #15 July 17, 2018
DGA Winner Best Doc!
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
TIM WARDLE
Episode # 16 - July 11, 2018
Producer, Director, Disruptor
We Live In Public to Mappelthorpe
ONDI TIMONER
Episode #17 July 17, 2018
What do Robin Williams, Richard Pryor,
Roman Polanski, and ESPN have in common?
MARINA ZENOVICH
Episode # 12 May 9, 2018
Imax - The BIG Picture
Greg Macgillvray, Stephen Low,
Sean Philips, Mark Krenzien,
Episode #13 May 22, 2018
National Geographic Channel
Vice President of Development
CHARLILE PARSONS
Episode #14 June 13, 2018
PBS American Masters
Series Executive Producer
MICHAEL KANTOR
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 #10 April 3, 2018
The Making of the Netflix Documentary series
"Shot In The Dark"
Jeff Daniels, Tom Djokaj, Howard Raishbrook
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
