Episode 5 I THE DEEP DIVE With Jake Schroder - What Francesca Bridgerton and a D-Day Veteran Both Discovered About Grief
In Bridgerton Season 4, Francesca Bridgerton stands in the middle of her husband’s funeral and says something no one expects: “I want to feel joy.”Eighty years earlier and four thousand miles away, a ...
19 Mar 14min
Episode 273 | D-Day Leadership Academy: Jake Schroeder on WWII Veterans, Normandy & Redefining Success
Jake Schroeder—former frontman of OP Gone Bad, national anthem singer for the Colorado Avalanche, and executive director of the Denver Police Activities League—now runs the D-Day Leadership Academy, b...
12 Mar 58min
Episode 4 I THE DEEP DIVE With Quinnolyn Benson-Yates - The Gift of Failure — Courage Is a Muscle
What if failure isn’t the enemy—but the training ground?That’s the question Christian Taylor explores in this episode of Documentary First: The Deep Dive, sparked by her conversation with filmmaker Qu...
5 Mar 16min
Episode 272 | Quinnolyn Benson-Yates on Epic Bill: Failure, Reinvention & the Filmmaker’s Endurance
Award-winning filmmaker Quinnolyn Benson-Yates made her first feature documentary before film school—and its seven-year journey from short film concept to PBS distribution holds lessons every indie fi...
25 Feb 1h 8min
Episode 3 I THE DEEP DIVE With Joe Amodei - Finding The Good Guys
How do you know if you’ve found a Joe Amodei—or a predatory film distributor?That’s the question Christian Taylor explores in this episode of Documentary First: The Deep Dive, after her conversation w...
19 Feb 17min
Episode 271 | Joe Amodei on Documentary Distribution: Budgets, Genres & Building Your Audience
Virgil Films founder Joe Amodei shares the hard truth: $250K is your budget ceiling, traditional marketing no longer is effective, and you must build your own audience.Joe has distributed films from t...
13 Feb 1h 5min
Episode 2 I THE DEEP DIVE With Charles Olivier: What They’ll Remember — Sticky Storytelling
“People are going to watch your movie for such an infinitesimally small percentage of their life. What they’re going to do is remember it.”That insight from Emmy-winning editor Charles Olivier—who’s c...
5 Feb 16min
Episode 1 I THE DEEP DIVE With Jeffrey Roth: Staying Present When the Dream Becomes Real
Imagine standing in an ancient Egyptian tomb, camera in hand, as a sarcophagus is opened for the first time in thousands of years. For filmmaker Jeffrey Roth, that moment sparked a realization: "No, t...
5 Feb 7min
