Top Docs: Award-Winning Documentary Filmmakers Podcast
1) ”How Do You Measure a Year?” with Jay Rosenblatt
It says something about filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt that if you go to his website (jayrosenblattfilms.com) and click on “Contact”, the page guides you to “16mm / 35mm rental information”. Jay is that kin...Show More
2) ”Stranger at the Gate” with Joshua Seftel
“Stranger at the Gate” charts one man’s delusion: That his neighbors are not the peace-loving, hard-working people they seem to be, but actually dangerous radicals deeply embedded in America’s heartl...Show More
3) ”The Elephant Whisperers” with Kartiki Gonsalves & Doug Blush
It’s an age-old query: Can humans live in harmony with other creatures on the planet? On their way to speaking to this question, in “The Elephant Whisperers” director Kartiki Gonsalves and producer...Show More
4) ”A Still Small Voice” with Luke Lorentz
Luke Lorentzen made a brilliant feature debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival with his sparkling documentary “Midnight Family”, a fast-paced look at a family-owned private ambulance business in Mex...Show More
5) ”The Eternal Memory” with Maite Alberdi
As a realistic account of the deprivations Alzheimers can bring, “The Eternal Memory” is harrowing. But it’s also the story of Augusto’s and Paulina’s determined love in the face of this challenge. ...Show More
6) ”Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” with Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster
10 years ago, filmmakers Michèle Stephenson and Joe Brewster premiered their epic personal documentary “American Promise” at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize. Now, Michèle and...Show More
”Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project” with Michèle Stephenson & Joe Brewster
19:53 | Jan 31st, 2023
7) ”King Coal” with Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Premiering at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, Academy Award-nominated director Elaine McMillion Sheldon’s ("Heroin(e)", "Recovery Boys") elegiac, stirring, and magical new documentary “King Coal” giv...Show More
8) ”Children of the Mist” with Diem Ha Le
Bride kidnapping. What sounds like a practice from long ago or even a tale out of folklore is actually a Lunar New Year tradition among the Hmong community of the mountains of northern Vietnam. First-...Show More
9) ”Hidden Letters” with Violet Du Feng
Hundreds of years ago, cut off from the outside world and confined to so-called chamber rooms, rural women in Jiangyong in southern China did something radical and transformative: they invented their ...Show More
10) ”House Made of Splinters” with Simon Lereng Wilmont
Children in a shelter in Eastern Ukraine–many of whom have all but lost their parents to war, alcohol, homelessness. But the director of “House Made of Splinters”, Simon Lereng Wilmont (“The Distant ...Show More