The Velveteen Rabbit and Old Home Movies: What Is Real?
What does The Velveteen Rabbit, a 1922 children's book about a stuffed toy, have to do with old home movies and AI?In Margery Williams' classic story, an old toy called the Skin Horse tells a stuffed ...
15 Okt 16min
Archival Footage: Why Use Home Movies?
What happens to a family's home movies when no one knows what to do with them?Phil Maher was a software engineer looking for a sense of purpose when he started watching his grandfather's family reels ...
8 Okt 49min
How Do You Get a Documentary Made? Ask the Woman Who Co-Runs RKO
Do you have a documentary, or do you have a Wikipedia entry?Somebody decides whether your documentary gets made. Sophia Dilley is one of those people. She runs Concord Originals, the division behind S...
10 Sep 53min
Beyond Banners: How to Make a Documentary With No Film School
Who finishes your film if you can't?Andre N. Jackson had never made a film. He had twenty years in technology and security, an idea that arrived while he was sitting in a barber's chair, and no way in...
21 Aug 40min
Why Can't Your Documentary Find an Audience? l Deep Dive on Ep. 284
When did your audience stop being people and become a number?Most independent films and podcasts do not fail because the work is bad. They fail because no one ever felt like they belonged to them. Thi...
13 Aug 13min
Ep. 284 I How to Fund a Documentary Without the Industry
How do you fund a documentary when the whole industry says no?How do you fund a documentary without film funds, grants, or a commissioning broadcaster, and still reach a huge audience? Dutch filmmaker...
6 Aug 51min
Who Believed in You First?
Who believed in you before you could believe in yourself? In this Deep Dive, documentary filmmaker Christian Taylor makes a quiet case that we rarely overcome self-doubt on our own. Almost no one fini...
30 Jul 13min
Cold War in Philly: Joe Amodei Directs His First Documentary
What happens when a film distributor with more than 40 years in the business finally makes his own documentary?Joe Amodei grew up in Philadelphia watching the Flyers with his parents, sisters and brot...
23 Jul 54min
