Episodes 24
Avg. Duration 42m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since Jan 2021
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Do you love documentaries? Join me for a series of conversations with directors who discuss the craft of documentary filmmaking. You'll learn how these talented creators find great stories and how they bring them to life on screens around the world.

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Recent Episodes

The Long Goodbye

Mar 23, 2026 42m

Dear Audrey follows veteran documentary filmmaker Martin Duckworth as he cares for his wife Audrey, who is living with Alzheimer’s. What begins as a portrait of daily life gradually expands into a…

The Last Campfire

Nov 17, 2025 42m

Every summer, on the very edge of Chincoteague island, there was a little world called Inlet View. Generations came through: grandparents, parents, kids who grew up barefoot on the sand, all…

The Kramer brothers make government cool again

Sep 01, 2023 1h 4m

Given today’s combative political environment, why would anyone want to watch a film about government? Well, because Brandon and Lance Kramer made it. Brothers and filmmakers, the Kramers have carved…

David Holthouse's wild journey from journalist to filmmaker

Jul 21, 2023 50m

Even as a young boy growing up in Alaska, David Holthouse was fascinated by newspapers, storytelling and life on the margins. His ability to blend into his surroundings led to a career as a…

Morgan Elliott finds backyard treasure in "Potty Town"

Jun 21, 2023 36m

Morgan Elliott is a documentary filmmaker and long-time resident of New York’s “North Country.” Going back to his childhood, Elliott had heard the story of Potsdam’s famous toilet garden, a…

Phil Wall processes his grief in the making of "The Book Keepers"

Mar 29, 2023 48m

The Book Keepers tells the story of Phil Wall’s mother, Carol, a gifted writer who dreamed of becoming a published author and who finally achieved her goal … just as her long battle with breast…

Zachary Levy unearths gold in "Strongman"

Jan 27, 2023 51m

Some 20 years ago, New York filmmaker Zachary Levy went looking for a story that would become his first documentary feature film. He wound up finding the personality of a lifetime in Stanley Pleskun,…

Shaleece Haas tackles one of America's great social issues in "Real Boy"

Dec 20, 2022 48m

Ten years ago, Shaleece Haas stumbled upon a musician whose lyrics captured her attention ... and then her imagination. Turns out the musician, Bennett Wallace, had a story to go along with his…

Robert Greene returns to his roots to film pro wrestlers in "Fake It So Real"

Oct 26, 2022 1h 5m

Robert Greene is an award-winning filmmaker who directed the highly regarded Netflix documentary, "Procession." But at the dawn of the 2010s, Greene was only beginning to refine his voice and vision…

Drew Xanthopolous leans on his humanity to enter the world of "The Sensitives"

Sep 28, 2022 1h 17m

Drew Xanthopolous was a young, unestablished filmmaker when he came across a New York Times photo essay that would launch his career—as well as change the next five years of his life. The essay…

Elizabeth Lo captures the romance of urban dog life in "Stray"

Nov 15, 2021 31m

In the United States, stray dogs are not allowed to live on the street. They are whisked away to live in concrete cells. The approach is very different in some cities in Europe and Asia, where stray…

Justin Schein faces an unthinkable dilemma in "Left on Purpose."

Oct 04, 2021 43m

Justin Schein is a veteran filmmaker who has worked with scores of documentary subjects, but nothing could prepare him for an aging yippee named Mayer Vishner. Schein thought he was making a…

Joe Brandmeier hits the road to interview married couples in "I Do?"

Aug 20, 2021 46m

Joe Brandmeier was an average married guy who accepted the ups and downs of being coupled. But then a particularly tough patch in his marriage prompted him to think more deeply about the institution.…

Pamela Littky spends 10 years following kids voted "Most Likely to Succeed"

Jul 23, 2021 31m

Hollywood photographer Pamela Littky was overtaken by a nagging curiosity ... what happens, she wondered, to the thousands of kids named Most Likely to Succeed in high schools all across America?…

Jesse Alk explores Kolkata's mysterious native dogs in "Pariah Dog"

Jun 26, 2021 54m

Jesse Alk's father, Howard, was a documentarian who died when Jesse was a child. Decades later, Jesse wound up retracing his father's footsteps to Kolkata, India, where Howard had documented West…

Dani Connor Wild discovers she's a filmmaker while locked down in northern Sweden

Jun 02, 2021 34m

Dani Connor Wild was volunteering for a wildlife photographer in northern Sweden when the Covid pandemic descended and locked her in place. For the next six months she lived alone in a town of 20…

Michael Lucid goes back to school to tell the story of "Dirty Girls"

May 03, 2021 19m

In 1996, Michael Lucid was a senior at the Crossroads school in Santa Monica, California. He noticed a social phenomenon that had the school buzzing and wanted to know more. So he grabbed a camcorder…

Pat Taggart unearths the story of a lifetime in "Billboard Boys"

Mar 31, 2021 37m

In 1982, three young men from Allentown, Pa., climbed aboard a billboard in a competition to win an $18,000 mobile home. Times were tough, owning a home was an inaccessible dream, and the three…

Tommy Avallone stalks a legend in "The Bill Murray Stories"

Mar 19, 2021 29m

The internet is awash in what are known as "Bill Murray stories." Murray crashing a bachelor party. Bill Murray joining a random kickball game. Bill Murray washing a stranger's dishes. Tommy Avallone…

Jeremy Workman tracks an obsessive pedestrian in "The World Before Your Feet"

Mar 04, 2021 45m

When Jeremy Workman learned his friend, Matt Green, planned to walk every street in New York City, Workman did what any sensible filmmaker would do: he grabbed his camera and followed along. Three…

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