Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast
Hosted by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley and Deadline’s Documentary Editor, Matt Carey, Doc Talk features weekly interviews with filmmakers, storytellers, and industry leaders about creating critical content with the power to move the genre forward – and possibly change the world.
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May 14, 2024 • 41 mins
Our guest is Oscar-nominated filmmaker Yance Ford, director of Power. The documentary, premiering on Netflix this week, tackles policing in America – the origins of the institution and how police today preserve the existing order of society. Ford argues police power in this country is vast and largely unregulated.
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May 7, 2024 • 48 mins
Doc Talk goes live from the Milwaukee Film Festival with Debra McClutchy, archival producer of Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted and Oscar-nominated co-director of The Martha Mitchell Effect. And we discuss redemption and the power of music with JJ'88, protagonist of Songs From the Hole, and producer Richie Reseda.
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April 30, 2024 • 48 mins
Doc Talk goes live from the Milwaukee Film Festival with Sav Rodgers, director of Chasing Chasing Amy, and Mary Louise Schumacher, director of Out of the Picture. Schumacher's film trains a sharp eye on the state of art criticism, while Rodgers explores how Kevin Smith's 1997 film Chasing Amy saved his life but continues to stir controversy today.
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April 23, 2024 • 32 mins
The announcement that Participant is shutting down has sent shock waves through the documentary community. Joining us to discuss the unsettling news are Oscar-nominated filmmakers Betsy West and Julie Cohen, who have made two documentaries with Particpant - 'RBG,' and 'My Name Is Pauli Murray.'
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April 16, 2024 • 45 mins
Emmy-winning filmmaker Kirsten Johnson discusses the impact of AI on filmmaking and society. And she talks about her two new documentaries and a scripted films she's directing about Susan Sontag that will feature actress Kristen Stewart.
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April 9, 2024 • 32 mins
Directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss discuss Girls State, a documentary they describe as a “sibling” – not a sequel – to their Emmy-winning 2020 film Boys State. The filmmaking couple reflect on documenting young women engaged in an exercise in mock government just as the Supreme Court appeared set to reverse Roe v. Wade.
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April 2, 2024 • 44 mins
We talk with the directors of two films at the True/False film festival: Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó of 'Agent of Happiness' and Rachel Elizabeth Seed of 'A Photographic Memory.'
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March 26, 2024 • 34 mins
Doc Talk reports from the field at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen. We sit down with Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm and filmmakers premiering work at one of the most prestigious documentary festivals in the world.
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March 19, 2024 • 35 mins
Director Simon Chambers' hilarious story of becoming a caretaker to his ailing octogenarian uncle won the directing award at IDFA where it premiered in 2022. Despite winning that award and others, for over a year the film languished without distribution. Happily, that has changed with a theatrical release secured through First Run Features. The British filmmaker joins Doc Talk to discuss his odyssey to cinemas, and his relationship...
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March 12, 2024 • 41 mins
Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey discuss Sunday night's Oscar wins for 20 Days in Mariupol and The Last Repair Shop. And Ridley shares an in-depth report from the True/False documentary festival in Columbia, MO, where he spoke with filmmakers Sylvain Cruiziat, Sumira Roy, and True/False Artistic Director Chloe Trayner.
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March 5, 2024 • 41 mins
Oscar winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin discuss Photographer, their new documentary series that zooms in on National Geographic's greatest image makers. And Emmy nominee Carla Gutiérrez goes inside her new film Frida, about the extraordinary Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
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February 27, 2024 • 39 mins
Filmmaker Amber Fares discusses her documentary Speed Sisters, about Palestinian women who formed the "first all-women race car driving team in the Middle East." Several years after the film premiered, the story is more timely than ever.
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February 20, 2024 • 48 mins
The Oscar nominations for documentary feature have sparked dissension in the nonfiction film community. By rewarding five international films, did the Academy's doc branch hurt American filmmakers, and unfairly punish documentaries with broad appeal? Three distinguished panelists join us for a vigorous debate: Lois Vossen, executive producer of Independent Lens, filmmaker Marjan Safinia, and former Documentary magazine editor Tom W...
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February 13, 2024 • 41 mins
Doc filmmakers Maite Alberdi of 'The Eternal Memory' and Kaouther Ben Hania of 'Four Daughters' discuss earning the second Oscar nominations of their careers. Plus, we revisit our conversation from last fall with fellow Oscar nominees Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp, directors of 'Bobi Wine: The People's President.'
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February 6, 2024 • 39 mins
20 Days in Mariupol director Mstyslav Chernov and To Kill a Tiger director Nisha Pahuja join us to talk about earning Academy Award nominations for their urgent documentaries. Chernov’s film provides a harrowing look inside the siege of Mariupol in the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while Pahuja documents an Indian family’s fight for justice after their daughter becomes the victim of a brutal crime.
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January 30, 2024 • 43 mins
Doc Talk co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the Oscar nominations for documentary feature, drilling down on major snubs of American Symphony and Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie. Plus, Matt reports from the field at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, interviewing Best Director winners Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie of Sugarcane, Kerry Washington, EP of Audience Award winner Daughters, and Will & Harper's Will Ferrell a...
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January 23, 2024 • 40 mins
Director Scott Cummings discusses his highly cinematic documentary 'Realm of Satan,' which premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film, made in collaboration with the Church of Satan, immerses viewers in a world of people who manifestly do not worship the Devil (or believe Satan is real) but do embrace the carnal, the temporal, and the indulgent.
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January 16, 2024 • 36 mins
Programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma discuss the documentary lineup for the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, including films about Frida Kahlo, Christopher Reeve, and a road trip movie with Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele, who came out as trans. And they talk about whether Sundance will see a resurgence of doc sales after last year’s sluggish acquisition market.
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January 9, 2024 • 45 mins
Directors Ben Proudfoot and Kris Bowers explore a hidden corner of Los Angeles in their Oscar-shortlisted short documentary ‘The Last Repair Shop,’ a place where dedicated professionals keep tens of thousands of musical instruments in perfect working order for the city’s public-school students. They share stories of these unsung technicians, and the kids whose lives are transformed by gaining access to free -- and freely-repaired -...
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January 2, 2024 • 37 mins
Co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the announcement of the Oscar documentary feature shortlist, parsing the snubs, surprises, and biggest takeaways.
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