Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices.

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.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone

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.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 d

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices