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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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We speak with the filmmakers behind three of the top contenders in the Oscars' Best Documentary Feature category: The Tale of Silyan, directed by Tamara Kotevska; Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, directed by Sepideh Farsi, and Cover-Up, directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. We caught up with them at SFFILM's Doc Stories in San Francisco, a 4-day film festival that has become a critical stop during awards season.
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Doc Talk travels to Amsterdam for IDFA, the world's biggest docmentary festival. We speak with new Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez about assuming leadership of the festival after many years heading up the IDFA Bertha Fund. Arrate Fernandez discusses reaction to the festival's controversial decision to ban Israeli organiations that accept money from Israel's government to support their activities. We also visit with Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa in Amsterdam. Her Oscar-contendng Netflix documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics, explores the rise of Christian nationalism in Brazil. Costa tells us her film has directly led to the launch of an investigation into her protagonist, fiery televangelist Sila Malafaia, a key backer of former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro.
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Wisdom of Happiness executive producers Richard Gere and Oren Moverman join us for a conversation about their documentary focusing on the Dalai Lama's insights into finding happiness in a world that seems full of chaos and uncertainty. Gere tells us how a technique borrowed from filmmaker Errol Morris helped transform the film into "pure magic."
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Doc Talk heads to San Francisco for SFFILM's Doc Stories festival, where we speak with SFFILM Executive Director Anne Lai and Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. We also visit with young filmmaker Tasha Van Zandt whose documentary A Life Illuminated closed the Doc Stories festival.
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We report from the 34th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas, the longest running nonfiction cinema festival in North America. Festival Executive Director Ken Jacobson joins us to talk about highlights from this year and the festival's Filmmaker Forum, which confronted a crisis in documentary filmmaking after the defunding of a key entity that supports PBS. And we talk with Natchez director Suzannah Herbert and producer Darcy McKinnon about their award-winning film, which screened at HSDFF.
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We visit with a couple of emerging filmmakers -- Paige Bethmann, director of Remaining Native, and Juanjo Pereira, director of Under the Flags, the Sun. Bethmann's film centers on a teenage Indigenous athlete, Ku Stevens, who dreams of running track for the University of Oregon, a goal that would take him away from the Nevada reservation where he grew up. Pereira's film reframes archive footage to explore the military dictatorship of Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, who ruled Paraguay from 1954 to 1989. We recorded both interviews at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine, where Pereira and Bethmann screened their impressive work.
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Two new Oscar-contending documentaries explore the peril of conflict photojournalism: Love+War, directed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, and Armed Only with a Camera, directed by Craig Renaud. Love+Warfocuses on Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario who has captured unforgettable images from Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones, while trying to balance her work life with raising two kids with her husband. Renaud shares the story of his brother, journalist, documentary filmmaker and photographer Brent Renaud, who was killed in an ambush by Russian soldiers in Ukraine while documenting the war and displaced people.
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck discusses his new film Orwell: 2+2=5, about 1984 author George Orwell. We caught up with him at the Camden International Film Festival, one of the most important events on the calendar for the documentary community. At Camden, we also visited with the leaders of the Points North Insitute which puts on the festival: Executive Director Elise McCave and Artistic Director Sean Flynn. They share their perspective on the state of documentary film.
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Director Mike Figgis made the most of his opportunity to follow Francis Ford Coppola as the octogenarian filmmaker poured heart and soul, not to mention tens of millions of dollars, into making his 2024 narrative feature, Megalopolis. Figgis tells us what he observed behind the scenes as Coppola attempted to bring his cinematic vision to life, beset by creative issues that led to firings and resignations, and conflict with one of his principal actors, Shia LaBeouf.
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Doc Talk ventures into the disturbing territory of The Yogurt Shop Murders with director and executive producer Margaret Brown, her first foray into the true crime genre. The HBO series examines the shocking execution-style slaying of four teenage girls in 1991 in an Austin, Texas frozen yogurt store, a shocking crime that remains unsolved. Brown tells us about the impact of the documentary on friends and family of the young victims, and how making it deeply affected the filmmaker and her crew.
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German director Andres Veiel joins us to discuss his expected Oscar-contending documentary Riefenstahl, about Leni Riefenstahl who was known as Hitler's favorite filmmaker. After World War II Riefenstahl tried to play down her role in furthering Nazi ideology through her 1930s films including Triumph of the Will and Olympia, claiming she was just an artist who had taken on assignments from Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbles. But Veiel digs into Riefenstahl's archive, including drafts of her memoir, audio tapes and other sources to reveal she was very much in sync with what Hitler stood for.
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Ahead of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival kickoff on Thursday, we get a preview of the documentary lineup from doc programmer Thom Powers. He tells us about the Paula Deen film by Bill Corben, Michèle Stephenson's True North, two-time Oscar winner Ben Proudfoot's feature documentary and much more. He also shares insights on his new book, Mondo Documentary, a collection of his TIFF program pieces from his 20 years with the festival.
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As Emmy voting nears its conclusion, we talk with creators — and a key participant — of two of the top contenders. Will & Harper director Josh Greenbaum joins the show along with Harper Steele — the Harper of Will & Harper — whose story of going on a road trip with her pal Will Ferrell after announcing her transition is told in the Netflix film that's nominated for five Emmys. We also speak with Nyle DiMarco and Oscar winner Davis Guggenheim, co-directors of Deaf President Now!, their Apple TV+ documentary about a historic student uprising at Gallaudet University, the famed private university serving the Deaf and hearing impaired. DiMarco speaks to us through his ASL interpreter Grey Van Pelt.
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We speak with Matt Wolf, director of Pee-Wee as Himself, his documentary about the late actor Paul Reubens, and Katie Walsh, director and executive producer of Simone Biles Rising. Pee-wee is nominated for five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special, while Simone Biles Rising goes for the gold in the category of Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series.
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Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg's new documentary It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley examines the life and career of the titular singer-songwriter-guitarist, who died tragically at the age of 30. Berg discusses her long effort to gain permission from Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, to make the film and how she combined distinctive visual elements as well as Buckley's own voice to paint a portrait of a sensitive and supremely talented musician.
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Description: Actor-writer-filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine joins us to discuss Memories of Love Returned, a documentary 20 years in the making. His film explores the work of an extraordinary photographer, Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo, who created a lasting portrait of people in rural Uganda, an oeuvre unlike any other. In the episode, hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey also parse the Emmy nominations, spotlighting top contenders and most notable omissions.
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Award-winning filmmaker Reid Davenport's new investigative documentary Life After "exposes the web of moral dilemmas and profit motives surrounding assisted dying," suggesting that right-to-die laws are being used to encourage disabled people to end their lives. The director and his producer, Colleen Cassingham, join Doc Talk for a fascinating conversation around one of the most talked about films of the year.
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What films are gaining traction in the Oscar Best Documentary Feature race as we pass the mid-point of 2025? The Perfect Neighbor and Seeds leap out as early frontrunners, but it's a wide open race so far. We discuss the contenders that have emerged so far with journalist Lauren Wissot, contributing editor at Filmmaker magazine and Documentary magazine.
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As a 4K restoration of Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's
Apocalypse comes to theaters and home entertainment, we talk with
filmmaker Fax Bahr and American Zoetrope's James Mockoski about one of the greatest documentaries of all time. Bahr directed the film — about the fraught making of Apocalypse Now —along with George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola, filmmaker and wife of Apocalypse Now director Francis Ford Coppola. Mockoski oversaw the restoration.
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Doc Talk heads to DC/DOX where we speak with filmmaker Rob Petit about his stunning documentary Underland, which just screened at the festival. And we head to the 11th annual Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas for a conversation with BFF President Wendy Guerrero.
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