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70 – Crowdfunding for Your Documentary with Seed & Spark’s, Emily Best

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70 – Crowdfunding for Your Documentary with Seed & Spark’s, Emily Best

Crowdfunding for Your Doc with Seed & Spark’s, Emily Best Crowdfunding, nowadays, is one of the most common funding options out there for the documentary filmmaker. However, the crowdfunding playing field has evolved considerably since... Read More

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69 – The Art of Film Funding with Carole Lee Dean

The Art of Film Funding It’s no secret that one of the bigger hurdles that we are often faced with as documentary filmmakers is that of funding. It is my intention with this episode to... Read More

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68 – Wild Wild Documentary Life with Maclain and Chapman Way

Wild Wild Documentary Life Maclain and Chapman Way have recently directed, edited, produced one of the most talked about Netflix docuseries of the year, Wild Wild Country. They have become one of the hottest, most sought... Read More

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67 – Making the Personal Documentary with Michael Wiese

Making the Personal Documentary Often times as doc filmmakers, we will choose subjects that are near and dear to our hearts. And usually we will have quite personal connections to these subjects. So it’s only... Read More

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66 – Making Your Splash as a Documentary Filmmaker with Kelly Richmond Pope

Making Your Splash as a Documentary Filmmaker We welcome CPA, Professor of Accountancy, fraud expert, and documentary filmmaker, Kelly Richmond Pope to the programme. Kelly comes highly recommended by other Kartemquin alum, and once you’ve... Read More

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65 – The Other Side of the Doc Camera with Up Series’, Nick Hitchon

The Other Side of the Doc Camera In our first 64 episodes of this podcast we have touched upon a host of documentary-related topics and spoken with a variety of guests. However, until now, we’d... Read More

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64 – Margaret Byrne Leads a Documentary Life

Margaret Byrne Leads a Documentary Life No other guest that we’ve yet had on the show exemplifies what we’ve been defining over the past 21 months here on TDL as living and leading a documentary... Read More

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63 – Stories Make the World with Documentary Writer/Producer, Stephen Most

Stories Make the World Storytelling is always at the heart of any kind of documentary journey. And for today’s episode of the podcast, we will explore 5 Ways to Tell Someone’s Story, followed by a... Read More

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62 – Career Doc Filmmaker + 2018 Academy Award Nominee, Steve James

2018 Academy Award Nominee, Steve James So what exactly does one say to one of the most respected documentary filmmakers of our time? What does one say to the man who literally inspired countless future... Read More

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61 – Filming in Extreme Weather Conditions with Doc Filmmaker, Anthony Powell

Filming in Antarctica Filming in extreme environments as a doc filmmaker can be a challenging thing. Shooting in Antarctica? A whole other ballgame. Just ask Anthony Powell, who has been working on the continent for... Read More

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60 – ‘Directing the Documentary’ with Michael Rabiger

Directing The Documentary If there ever was a Bible for documentary filmmaking, for my money, it would have to be Michael Rabiger‘s Directing the Documentary. The shear volume of books, online courses, podcasts, and How-to Youtube... Read More

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59 – Film Funding & Distribution with ‘Big Sonia’ Filmmakers

Funding & Distribution Film marketing & promotions, crowdfunding, and theatrical distribution are topics that, at some point in time, all independent doc filmmakers will need to know about. So if you’re looking to start arming... Read More

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