Podcast Episodes

What If You're Not Actually Failing? — Documentary First: The Deep Dive

What If You're Not Actually Failing?

Christian Taylor takes Bill Bradley's line from the Epic Bill documentary, "courage is a muscle," and tests it against tennis, muscle science, Edison, Michael Jordan, the 1980 Miracle on Ice...

What If You're Not Actually Failing?

Christian Taylor takes Bill Bradley's line from the Epic Bill documentary, "courage is a muscle," and tests it against tennis, muscle science, Edison, Michael Jordan, the 1980 Miracle on Ice...

Epic Bill: From Video Store Millionaire to Endurance Athlete — Documentary First Episode 272

Epic Bill: From Video Store Millionaire to Endu...

Quinnolyn Benson-Yates, director of the Epic Bill documentary, tells how a short film about a bankrupt video store owner turned endurance athlete grew into a seven-year feature, and what she...

Epic Bill: From Video Store Millionaire to Endu...

Quinnolyn Benson-Yates, director of the Epic Bill documentary, tells how a short film about a bankrupt video store owner turned endurance athlete grew into a seven-year feature, and what she...

Joe Amodei on Documentary Distribution: Will Anyone Watch? — Documentary First Episode 271

Joe Amodei on Documentary Distribution: Will An...

Distributor Joe Amodei of Virgil Films on what it takes for an independent documentary to find its audience, from budgets and genres to building a community before release.

Joe Amodei on Documentary Distribution: Will An...

Distributor Joe Amodei of Virgil Films on what it takes for an independent documentary to find its audience, from budgets and genres to building a community before release.

Charles Olivier on Editing Surviving Ohio State for HBO — Documentary First Episode 270

Charles Olivier on Editing Surviving Ohio State...

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning editor Charles Olivier talks about shaping HBO's Surviving Ohio State so more than a thousand victims never became just a number.

Charles Olivier on Editing Surviving Ohio State...

Emmy and Peabody Award-winning editor Charles Olivier talks about shaping HBO's Surviving Ohio State so more than a thousand victims never became just a number.

Zahi Hawass Documentary: Making The Man with the Hat — Documentary First Episode 269

Zahi Hawass Documentary: Making The Man with th...

Jeffrey Roth, director of The Man with the Hat and HBO's 41, on filming Egyptologist Zahi Hawass with a small crew, his own money and no narrator.

Zahi Hawass Documentary: Making The Man with th...

Jeffrey Roth, director of The Man with the Hat and HBO's 41, on filming Egyptologist Zahi Hawass with a small crew, his own money and no narrator.

Documentary First Episode 268: Peter Kelly's Archaeological Adventure in the Turks and Caicos

Peter Kelly's Archaeological Adventure in the T...

Filmmaker Peter Kelly on Salt and Silence, his documentary about shipwreck archaeology on remote Salt Cay in the Turks and Caicos.

Peter Kelly's Archaeological Adventure in the T...

Filmmaker Peter Kelly on Salt and Silence, his documentary about shipwreck archaeology on remote Salt Cay in the Turks and Caicos.