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In this episode, I talk with directors Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó about their new film “Agent of Happiness” that premiered earlier in the year at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. This film explores if and how happiness can be measured? The country of Bhutan invented Gross National Happiness to do just that, and Amber, the central protagonist in the film, is one of the agents who travels door to door to meet people and measure how happy they really are. He is still living with his elderly mother at the age of 40, but is nevertheless a hopeless romantic who dreams of finding love: a happiness agent who is in search of his own happiness. We embark with Amber on a cross-country road trip meeting citizens from all walks of life, reminding us of the fragility and beauty of our own happiness - no matter where we live.
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In this episode, I talk with directors Ayman El Amir and Nada Riyadh about their new film “The Brink of Dreams” that recently won the Golden Eye award at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. This documentary chronicles the lives of a group of young Egyptian girls from a very conservative small village in Egypt who formed an all-female acting troupe despite family rejection.
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In this episode, I talk with artist and director Dan Covert, about his new documentary film “Geoff McFetridge: Drawing a Life” that recently premiered at SXSW, picking up an Audience Award, and is about to be released on VOD. "Drawing a Life" is a poetic and intimate portrait of an artist. In an era dominated by influencers and social media, Geoff McFetridge works to live with intention and authenticity, an increasingly rare practice–more relevant now than ever. Geoff’s art is everywhere: from Apple watch faces, to solo shows around the world, to movie titles for Spike Jonze. But this film is more than a primer on Geoff’s prolific career. It’s about the choices we confront in trying to lead meaningful lives.
Dan Covert's website: www.dancovert.com
"Drawing a Life" website: www.drawingalifefilm.com
Geoff McFetridge's website: www.championdontstop.comThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk to filmmakers Xinyan Yu and Max Duncan about the challenges of production of their excellent new film "Made in Ethiopia", that just received its premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Film Festival. "Made in Ethiopia" examines the growing industrialization taking place in present-day Ethiopia and China’s often misunderstood, growing impact in Africa. Filmed over four years with unprecedented access, the story takes viewers to a dusty farming town in Ethiopia as a Chinese industrial park begins to take shape. The film follows three women, perhaps most affected: the Chinese factory director who must muster up strength to fulfill the promise of expansion and 30,000 jobs, a factory worker, and a local farmer, all who look to the success of the development for their future prosperity.
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In this episode, I talk to accomplished composer Ryan Marth, who has created music for a variety of films. Ryan covers the nuts and bolts of his craft and offers advice for both new composers and for filmmakers on how to go about creating music for film.
Ryan's website: www.ryanmarth.com
Ryan's Instagram: www.instagram.com/ryanmarthmusicThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk with filmmakers Arata Mori and Andreas Hartmann about their new documentary “Johatsu” that is currently on the festival circuit. Every year, thousands of people vanish without a trace in Japan. The film explorers the phenomena known as Johatsu, or “the evaporated,” about people who abandon their lives for various reasons, a troublesome relationship, mounting debts or threats from the mafia. Some get support from so-called “night moving” companies, which help people to disappear and start a new life somewhere else. The film “Johatsu” depicts the inner conflicts and attempts at reconciliation of those who have disappeared and those who have been left behind.
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In this episode, I talk with filmmaker Nellie Kluz on directing, producing, and editing her new documentary film "The Dells". The film explores Wisconsin Dells - the world capital of water parks - through the eyes of foreign students employed on summer work visas. This program, presented as an immersion into American culture, is also a way of profiting from cheap labour. "The Dells" is an inspired portrait of contemporary America through the eyes of this young generation.
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In this first episode of season 3, I talk with renowned cinematographer Michael Marius Pessah, who has worked on a wide array of documentary and scripted projects, as well as music videos and commercials. For this episode, we focus on the art of documentary cinematography. Michael has worked on documentaries such as 'Scandalous' which was nominated for a 2021 Emmy, and 'Viva La Causa' which was shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. Michael was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers in 2020 and is member of the National Film Preservation Board. As well as extensive work in the film industry, Michael also teaches cinematography at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, California.
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In this episode, I talk to Loretta van der Horst about the challenges of directing her new feature documentary "The Border Crossed Us", that recently premiered at IDFA.
Loretta's Instagram: lorvanderhorst
Loretta's websites:
www.lorettavanderhorst.com
www.thewaves.film
www.newproducersacademy.nl
Film website:
www.journeyman.tv/film/8572And the producers website:
www.tangerinetree.nlThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk to Julien Potart on what it took to build the sitnwatch streaming platform for documentaries, as well as his own films and his work as a programmer for the Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival.
Julien's Instagram: www.instagram.com/julienpotart
Sitnwatch: www.sitnwatch.tv
Paris Surf & Skateboard Film Festival: www.pssff.frThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk to Silje Evensmo Jacobsen about her excellent and moving new film “A New Kind of Wilderness” that just premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows wild-living British widower Nik Payne as he makes tough choices for his family following his wife's untimely death.
Silje's production company website: www.a5film.no/aboutusThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk with award-winning director and producer Lesley Chilcott on her experience working with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Netflix series "Arnold". Lesley has also worked on "Waiting for Superman", "CodeGirl", "It Might Get Loud", and "An Inconvenient Truth" which won two Academy Awards.
Lesley's website: www.lesleychilcott.comThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk with cinematographer, colorist, and head of Venture Films Jake Pierrelee on the art of color grading for documentary.
Jake's Instagram: www.instagram.com/jvke
Jake's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOhajf8RvcGz3wMPekSkOpw
Jake's course: www.jvke.us/tcbThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk with filmmakers Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli on the production and reception of their feature documentary "Lakota Nation vs. United States."
Official website: www.lakotanationvsus.movie
Laura Tomasellis website: www.lauratomaselli.comThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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On this episode, I talk to Dan Olmsted who has worked on a vast array of both documentary and narrative films as a sound recordist, sound mixer, and sound designer, including "Crip Camp", "China’s Lost Daughters", "The Revolutionary Optimists", "The English Patient" and "Boogie Nights". Dan and I discuss the art of sound in documentary.
Dan's IMDB page: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647465/Thank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk with filmmaker Amy Nicholson about her new film "Happy Campers" that recently premiered at DOC NYC.
Amy's website: www.filmsbyamy.com
Happy Campers website: www.happycampers.filmThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this episode, I talk with filmmaker Yannesh Meijman about his new film "Hotel Mokum" that recently premiered at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam.
Yannesh's website: www.yanneshmeijman.nl
Yannesh's Instagram: www.instagram.com/theodorusgoonThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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In this first episode of season 2, I talk with Emmy award winning filmmaker Maro Chermayeff. As well as directing and producing many excellent documentary films - such as Half the Sky, Hostages, and Carrier - she is also the founding partner of the global production company Show of Force and Chair of the MFA in Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I talk with Maro about what it takes to become a documentary filmmaker today, as well as her work as a director, producer, and educator.
The MFA in Social Documentary at the School of Visual Arts: https://sva.edu/academics/graduate/mfa-social-documentary-film
Show of Force: https://showofforce.comThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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On this last episode of season one, I talk with professional documentary editor and filmmaker J. Christian Jensen. In 2015, after graduating from the documentary program at Stanford, Christian was nominated for an Academy Award for his film “White Earth." Since then, he has built a distinguished career as a documentary editor working on an array of films for various leading directors. In this episode, Christian gets into the nuts and bolts of editing and what work as an editor looks like today.
White Earth website: www.whiteearthmovie.com
Scenes from the Glittering World: www.www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/scenes-from-the-glittering-world
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In this episode, I talk with Natalia Winkelman, a film critic who writes for The New York Times, as well as The Boston Globe, Slate, The Daily Beast, and IndieWire. Natalia is also a podcast producer at Campside Media, where she produced “The Plot Thickens: The Devil’s Candy” for Turner Classic Movies, which was chosen as one of the best podcasts of the year by The New York Times; “Suspect” for Wondery, which was chosen as one of the best podcasts of the year by The New Yorker; and “The Wire at 20” for HBO, which won a Gold Signal Award. Natalia details how she got into film criticism and her writing process, as well as her podcasting.
Natalia's website: www.nataliawinkelman.comThank you for listening. Please subscribe to keep up to date with new episodes. If you enjoy this podcast, please leave a review.
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