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Filmmaker Brett Story and labour organizer Chris Smalls join us this week on Below the Radar. Brett is the co-director of UNION, a documentary film that follows the efforts of the Amazon Labor Union and their campaign to unionize the first Amazon warehouse in American history. The movement was spearheaded by Chris, a former Amazon warehouse supervisor who was fired in 2020 after organizing a protest against Amazon's lack of COVID-19 safety protocols. Brett and Chris chat about the process of making the film, the state of organizing in the contemporary moment, and the international reception of UNION. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/255-brett-story-chris-smalls.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/255-brett-story-chris-smalls.html Resources: Brett Story: https://brettstory.ca/ Chris Smalls: https://www.instagram.com/chris.smalls_/?hl=en Amazon Labor Union: https://www.amazonlaborunion.org/ UNION: https://www.unionthefilm.com/ DOXA Documentary Film Festival: https://www.doxafestival.ca/ Bio: Bretty Story: Brett Story is an award-winning filmmaker and writer based in Toronto. Her films have screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including at CPH-DOX, SXSW, True/False, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. She is the director of the award-winning films The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) and The Hottest August (2019), and author of the book Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power Across Neoliberal America. The Hottest August was a New York Times Critics' Pick and was called one of the ten best documentary films of 2019 by over a dozen publications, including Variety, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. Brett has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sundance Institute, and was named one of Variety's 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch. In 2020 she was nominated for a Cinema Eye Award for Best Director. She holds a PhD in geography and is currently an assistant professor of Media Praxis at the University of Toronto. Her most recent film, UNION, co-directed with Stephen Maing, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2024. Chris Smalls: Christian Smalls is the founder of the Amazon Labor Union, an independent, democratic, worker-led labor union at Amazon in Staten Island. He is also the founder of The Congress of Essential Workers (TCOEW), a nationwide collective of essential workers and allies fighting for better working conditions, better wages, and a better world. Smalls was formerly an Amazon warehouse supervisor, helping open three major warehouses in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut during his five years with the company, but he was fired in 2020 after organizing a protest against the company's unsafe pandemic conditions. Smalls has been profiled by media outlets worldwide, including The New York Times, USA Today, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, CBC Radio, Salon, and Jacobin. He lives in Hackensack, New Jersey. Cite this episode: Chicago Style Johal, Am. “ Union Power — with Brett Story and Chris Smalls.” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, November 5, 2024. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/255-brett-story-chris-smalls.html.

Our guest today on the podcast is documentary filmmaker Askold Kurov, whose latest film, “Of Caravans and Dogs,” was screened this past June in England as part of the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the largest festival of its kind in the UK.According to the festival programme, this “Bold and compelling documentary looks at the curtailment of press freedom in Russia on the eve of and during the invasion of Ukraine.”. The credits list two directors. One is “Anonymous Number 1” and the other is our guest today, Askold Kurov.My questions are: 1. Askold, I watched your movie with great interest. Please explain the title of the movie and where it came from.2. In the Sheffield Docfest programme, your unique access to people and events is very much praised. Tell us about the birth of the project. How did it come about? In the credits it is stated that the film was made with the support of Novaya gazeta. Was it their initiative or did you approach them with the idea?3. Tell us about the relationship between you and your team. After all, your co-director remained anonymous, as well as two others in key roles - sound operator and editor. Why did they remain nameless, while you boldly decided to give your name in the credits? 4. You started shooting before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. What made you choose this topic and how did you decide how the film would end?5. The movie talks about Novaya gazeta, Memorial, Dozhd, and Ekho Moskvy. But above all, about Novaya gazeta. Why was this?6. I heard one journalist who works for TV Dozhd say that the Russian authorities were doing everything they could to make the entire opposition press leave the country, so there would be no one to push back against pressure and censorship in Russia itself. What do you think of that?7. You yourself stayed to live and work in Russia right after the beginning of the war. And now you are outside Russia. What brought you to leave? 8. Do you keep in touch with your former “anonymous” colleagues from the film? How are they doing?9. Many people talk about self-censorship among the journalists who stayed in Russia. Do you think this promotes or destroys quality journalism?10. Access to all independent sources of information in Russia is increasingly narrowing. What sources of information are left for Russians and is there a demand for such information? Has what is happening now in Kursk region changed things?11. Tell us a little about yourself. Where did you grow up and how did you become involved in the film business? 12. I remember very well the strongest impression from your movie of 2017 about the fate of Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, arrested during the annexation of Crimea and taken to Russia. As you have closely interacted with and observed Ukrainians, what can you say about the differences between Russians and Ukrainians?13. Could you have predicted at that time that a real war between Russia and Ukraine would start?14. How do you see the war ending?15. Are you currently working on a new project? 16. How do you find living in a foreign country?17. How do you see your future - in Russia? Under what circumstances?

Doc Talk travels to Europe to speak with the creative director of Sheffield DocFest, the U.K.'s top all-documentary film festival, and the leaders of Sunny Side of the Doc, the biggest documentary marketplace that unfolds in La Rochelle, France. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our June edition 2024 of the Cinetopia Radio show, Amanda from Cinetopia and show regular, Clara Strachan, cover this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest, reviewing the documentary films DEVO and ETERNAL YOU, and many more from the UK's leading documentary festival. Plus Clara sits down with Inma de Reyes, director of The Boy and the Suit of Lights and Amanda interviews Duncan Cowles, director of Silent Men, two Scottish-based filmmakers whose films had their World Premiere at Doc/Fest this year.

At Screen Southasia, we host monthly online screenings of compelling documentaries from the region, including Nepal, India, Kashmir, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Tibet, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka. We present a diverse range of films, both classic and new, that showcase the unique cultures, histories and perspectives of Southasia. Screen Southasia is a partnership between Himal Southasian and Film Southasia. Film: Split Ends Country: Nepal Released: 2016 Q and A with director: 7 JUNE 2024 (FRIDAY) Time: 6 pm IST, 6:15 pm NPT, 5:30 pm PKT Synopsis: A barbershop becomes a place of refuge for Nepali migrants who travel to Portugal in search of the European dream. About the director: Rajan Kathet is a filmmaker based in Kathmandu working in both fiction and documentary films. Rajan's first feature documentary, "No Winter Holidays," premiered in the International First Feature Competition section of Sheffield DocFest 2023 and is the winner of the NATIVA Award at Alternativa Film Awards 2023 in Kazakhstan. His short fiction work, "Bare Trees In The Mist (2019)," was screened at several international film festivals, including the Toronto International Film Festival 2019, Tampere Film Festival, HKIFF, Encounters Film Festival, Dharamshala IFF, and Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia. Rajan collaborates with national and international filmmakers through his production company, Salpa Films. He has worked on projects such as the Taiwanese feature documentary “After The Snowmelt” by Yi-Shan Lo, which premiered at Visions du Réel 2024, and the TV documentaries "In the Land of Machines" by Heo Chul-nyung (South Korea), "Home Street Home" by Alan Lau for Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), and "A Himalayan Endgame" by Deepak Chaturvedi (India), all of which are in post-production. Rajan is also engaged in film education and mentors young filmmakers through his involvement in local film schools and filmmaking workshops. He regularly contributes to the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival DocLab.

Creatively Down and Dirty is our new podcast series where we deep-dive with one creator into one project. Prepare to hear it all, from what sparked the initial idea from the high-highs to the low-lows during the making of it and ultimately, how it got released out into the wide world.What began as a commission for a tour documentary turned into Antony Crook's debut feature film, and all because of a global pandemic! In this very special episode, we caught up with Antony amidst the madness of SXSW, where he premiered If the Stars had a Sound, celebrating legendary Scottish band Mogwai.Originally from Manchester and now based in Upstate New York with his family, Antony started out as a photographer, and has shot icons from David Hockney to Snoop Dogg. He then made the leap into filmmaking with a music video for his friend's band, Mogwai, which went viral on Nowness over a decade ago. Now he's come full circle with this film that reflects the personal relationships, integrity and creativity that went into the making of it, and it's been perfectly summarised by The Austin Chronicle as “A true underdog story and a breathtaking look at community-building”.From throwing out the rulebook to being given Mogwai's music stems, from sifting through days of GoPro footage to sourcing funding to inviting fans to be part of the journey…Antony reveals the depth, detail and devotion it takes to get a project of this scale off the ground and into the world.“I didn't want the film to be like anything else out there. Mogwai have always done their own thing, their way, and this film had to be consistent with that”If the Stars had a Sound is a must-watch and screens later this month at various festivals, including Sheffield DocFest and Raindance Film Festival. Follow @AntonyCrook and @Mogwaiband for the latest! EPISODE INSIGHTSTransforming obstacles into opportunitiesWhy relationships matter in the business of creativityHow throwing out the rulebook can reignite possibilityHow subject matter can inform the creative approachWhy mood trumped chronology in the editThoughts on the episode? DM us @creativebloodworld EPISODE CREDITSHosted by Laura ConwayProduced by Scenery Studios

Send us a Text Message.Marcus speaks with filmmaker Santiago Maza, who shares his insights on documentary filmmaking and his inspired appreciation for the doc 'Collective'. Santiago's latest film 'State of Silence', Executive Produced by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal, World Premieres  at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 10th and is followed by Sheffield DocFest and  Guadalajara International Film Festival June 13th. 'State of Silence' highlights the importance of independent journalism in Mexico. The film aims to raise awareness and create change by humanizing the journalists and their stories, who face violence and threats for reporting on issues such as corruption and cartel-related activities. The filmmakers discuss the challenges faced by journalists in their line of work and the power of documentaries to spark change.TakeawaysSantiago Maza Stern discusses his love for documentary filmmaking and how he uses cinematic elements within the genre.'State of Silence' is a documentary that highlights the importance of independent journalism in Mexico and is executive produced by Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal.Santiago emphasizes the significance of allowing stories to unfold naturally and capturing real-world moments in documentary filmmaking.He talks about the process of shaping an idea for a documentary and the importance of finding the right characters and story.Santiago shares his approach to structuring and editing documentaries, using index cards to organize scenes and create a cinematic experience.He discusses the power of observational filmmaking and the use of talking heads as a tool to add layers of information.Santiago draws inspiration from films like 'Collective' and aims to create documentaries that engage the audience and make them active participants in the story.The film 'State of Silence' was initially conceived as a series but was adapted into a feature documentary due to the political risks involved. The film 'State of Silence' highlights the importance of independent journalism in Mexico and the dangers faced by journalists who report on corruption and cartel-related activities.The filmmakers emphasize the power of documentaries to create change by humanizing the journalists and their stories, and by raising awareness about the issues they face.Diego Luna and Gael García Bernal‘s involvement in the project brings attention and support to the cause of independent journalism in Mexico.The filmmakers discuss the challenges faced by journalists, including violence, threats, and the need for greater support and protection from the government and society.The film aims to reach audiences in Mexico, the United States, and Europe, and the filmmakers are actively seeking distribution and partnerships to amplify its impact.Keeping things simple is almost always better, especially in filmmaking.Like, subscribe and follow us on our socials @pastpresentfeature

Kate Meade sits down with Director and CEO Heather Croall AM is an experienced CEO and Director known as a visionary in the creative sector who delivers innovative festival programs, new audiences and organisational growth.  Under her leadership, every festival Heather has run has seen an increase in turnover, been met with high critical acclaim, delivered increased ticket sales and expanded audience demographics. Heather embraces adaptive and agile leadership methodologies and is known for implementing innovative digital platforms and systems that drive change and growth.  Heather is a filmmaker and has produced and directed documentaries for SBS, ABC, Ch 4 and BBC.  She first worked at the Fringe Star Club in the early 1990's and also ran the film event, Shoot the Fringe from 1992 to 2002, then was Director at the Australian Documentary Conference before going to the UK to take up Festival Director and CEO role at the Sheffield Doc/Fest from 2005 – 2015. Heather then returned to Adelaide to take up the role of Director and Chief Executive in 2015 at Adelaide Fringe. This podcast was recorded in December 2023See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode of Girls On Film, Anna Smith talks to Director Paul Sng and Producer Jen Corcoron about their new feature documentary Tish, which tells the story of working-class photographer Patricia ‘Tish' Murtha who worked to document life in Northeast England in the 1970s and 1980s. Anna then talks to Production Designer Sarah Greenwood and Set Decorator Katie Spencer, who worked together to create the distinctive world of Greta Gerwig's Barbie. Tish was the Opening Night Film of Sheffield Doc Fest 2023 and it is a celebration of a life devoted to exposing social inequality through art. The feature documentary is told from the perspective of Ella Murtha, both as daughter and custodian of the Tish Murtha archive. She retraces her mother's relationship with the photographic medium, from finding her first camera in a local skip, to earning a reputation as the ‘demon snapper' and beyond. Anna talks to Paul and Jen about the inspiration behind the project, the power of having working-class stories told from the inside, and asks about their favourite photographs in the Tish archive. Next on Girls On Film, Anna has a lively conversation with Sarah Greenwood and Katie Spencer, whose long time collaboration has resulted in multiple Academy Award and BAFTA nominations, and, most recently, the weird, wonderful and instantly recognisable world of Barbie. Sarah and Katie talk about working with Greta Gerwig in the early design stages of the project, following visual prompts like ‘think Gaudí in a blender' when creating Weird Barbie's house, and the film's many and varied visual inspirations. Tish by Paul Sng is being released by Modern Films in UK and Irish cinemas on 17 November 2023. On demand information: Virtual cinema 22 Dec, TVOD 5 Feb (iTunes, Amazon, Google Play). Barbie is available on 4K, Blu-Ray™, DVD & Digital Download now Other films mentioned in this episode include: Singin' in the Rain, Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1952 Grease, Randal Kleiser, 1978 Playtime, Jacques Tati, 1967 The Wizard of Oz, Victor Fleming, 1939 Psycho, Alfred Hitchock, 1960 Jaws, Steven Spielberg, 1975 Books mentioned; To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee, 1960 Become a patron of Girls On Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast Follow us on socials: www.instagram.com/girlsonfilm_podcast/ www.facebook.com/girlsonfilmpodcast www.twitter.com/GirlsOnFilm_Pod www.twitter.com/annasmithjourno Watch Girls On Film on the BFI's YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX…L89QKZsN5Tgr3vn7z Girls On Film is an HLA production. Host: Anna Smith Executive Producer: Hedda Archbold Producer: Lydia Scott Audio editor: Elliana Jay Hamer Intern: Charlotte Matheson House band: MX Tyrants This episode is in partnership with Margaret London and Women in Film and TV (UK) with huge thanks to our principal partners Peter Brewer and Vanessa Smith. With thanks to Sophia Hammond and Kate Riddell.

 Show NotesSalty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary WomenCreative non-fiction and “essays” as a genre“I guess what I was trying to do was come up with ways into the lives of these women who I find interesting. That would also be compelling to someone who had never heard of them.”Dinner partyHannah Arendt and her cocktail partiesA subversive feast among friendsArguing in order to find out what you thinkThinking as a conversation with the selfLove in the specificity of relationshipAmor mundi—love of the world“Loving the world means working on two specific tasks. The first is to doggedly, insist on seeing the world just as it is with its disappointments and horrors and committing to it all the same. The second is to encounter people in the world and embrace their alterity, or difference.”Arendt's “banality of evil”The importance of letter-writing for sharing the self and inhabiting a years-long friendshipEdna Lewis, Freetown, Virginia, and “The Taste of Southern Cooking”Farm-to-table cooking used to be out of economic necessity, not a hip or high fine dining experienceEdna Lewis's Southern identity: "Lewis defines Southern as the experience of an emancipated people and their descendants, a cultural and culinary heritage to be proud of a distinctly American culture. And as she offers definitions, readers are reminded, she's refusing to be defined by anyone but herself.”“What Is Southern?” Gourmet Magazine—reclaiming Southern cooking for Black SouthernersThe Los Padres National Forest Supper ClubBabette's Feast (1987)The menu from Babette's FeastThe place of joy and pleasure in a flourishing spiritual lifeRobert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the LambFood and recognition“Learning how to taste”“Every dinner party is an act of hope.”About Alissa WilkinsonAlissa Wilkinson is a Brooklyn-based critic, journalist, and author. She is a senior correspondent and critic at Vox.com, writing about film, TV, and culture. She is currently writing We Tell Ourselves Stories, a cultural history of American myth-making in Hollywood through the life and work of Joan Didion, which will be published by Liveright.She's contributed essays, features, and criticism to a wide variety of publications, including Rolling Stone, Vulture, Bon Appetit, Eater, RogerEbert.com, Pacific Standard, The Dallas Morning News, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Books & Culture, Christianity Today, and others. I'm a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the Writers Guild of America, East, and was an inaugural writing fellow with the Sundance Institute's Art of Nonfiction initiative. She's served on juries at the Sundance Film Festival, DOC NYC, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and others, and selection committees for groups including the Gotham Awards and the Sundance Documentary Film Program.In June 2022, her book Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women was published by Broadleaf Books. In 2016, her book How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, and Politics at the End of the World was released, co-written with Robert Joustra.I frequently pop up as a commentator and guest host on radio, TV, and podcasts. Some recent appearances include CBS News; PBS Newshour; CNN International Newsroom; BBC America's Talking Movies; NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, On Point, and 1A; HBO's Allen v. Farrow; AMC's James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction; WNYC's The Takeaway; ABC's Religion & Ethics and The Drum; CBC Eyeopener, Vox's Today, Explained and The Gray Area; and many more. For 14 years, until the college ceased offering classes in 2023, she was also an associate professor of English and humanities at The King's College in New York City, and taught courses in criticism, cinema studies, literature, and cultural theory. She earned an M.F.A in creative nonfiction from Seattle Pacific University, an M.A. in humanities and social thought from New York University, and a B.S. in information technology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.You can read my most up-to-date work on my Vox author page, or subscribe to my mostly-weekly newsletter. Production NotesThis podcast featured Alissa WilkinsonEdited and Produced by Evan RosaHosted by Evan RosaProduction Assistance by Liz Vukovic, Macie Bridge, and Kaylen YunA Production of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School https://faith.yale.edu/aboutSupport For the Life of the World podcast by giving to the Yale Center for Faith & Culture: https://faith.yale.edu/give 

Aired originally 20th June, 2023 on EHFM - This month, show host and Cinetopia co-founder, Amanda Rogers is joined by Cinetopia curator Amaya Bañuelos Marco and show regular and critic, Clara Strachan, to review the 2023 Sheffield Doc/Fest. They review together 4 films from this year's programme: TISH, YOUR FAT FRIEND, THE CASTLE, and LONELY OAKS. Clara talks to Dr. Jess Brough, founder and co-director of Fringe of Colour Film Festival which is happening from 23-29 June in Edinburgh. Amanda also sits down with TISH director, Paul Sng, which was the opening film of the 2023 Sheffield Doc/fest and also speaks with Rohan Berry Crickmar, an organiser of the Folk Film Gathering happening across Edinburgh in June 2023. for more about our events and programmes, go to Cinetopia.co.uk

In this podcast, Emmett Scanlon talks to Luke McManus, a documentary film maker based in Dublin. Luke's debut feature documentary as a director, North Circular, had its International Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest in 2022 and won awards at Dublin IFF, Louth IFF and IndieCork Film Festival. It recently won a prestigious Grand Prix at France's biggest documentary festival, FIPADOC in Biarritz in southwest France. North Circular is currently screening in cinemas across Ireland and in London and has had many sold-out screenings and excellent reviews - the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw awarded it four stars and said it was "resonant, vivid and beautifully shot, pregnant with images and ideas, a film made with real artistry." _ _ The music is by Sinead Finnegan and is played by The Delmaine String Quartet. The podcast was recorded on zoom in January 2023.

Director Luke McManus's latest film North Circular is a musical journey which explores the experiences of people who live along Dublin's North Circular Road. Having played at festivals including Sheffield Doc/Fest this year it has its SOLD OUT screening at Bertha Dochouse on Saturday 19th November as part of IFFL 2022. We caught up with Luke to chat about the film ahead of that event.   - - - The full programme for Irish Film Festival London 2022 is now live and tickets are on sale! Visit www.irishfilmlondon.com for more info and to grab your tickets today   The Irish Film London Podcast is presented fortnightly by Niamh Branigan and Gerry Maguire. For more about Irish Film London, visit irishfilmlondon.com, and follow us on our socials: twitter.com/irishfilmlondon facebook.com/IrishFilmFestivalLondon instagram.com/irishfilmlondon   Our theme music is Acid Trumpet by Kevin McCloud.  Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

My guest this week is the incredibly talented and prolific sound designer and mixer Ines Adriana. Ines studied for an MA in sound design at NFTS and has been credited on over 40 projects since 2020, including some incredible short films like Ruth Greenberg's RUN, Molly Manning Walker's, GOOD THANKS, YOU?, Theo James Krekis' PRAM SNATCHER, Nia Childs' HOME, as well as documentaries such as THE CATHEDRAL and SELF-PORTRAIT. Ines' work has screened at Sundance, SXSW, Cannes, BFI London Film Festival and Sheffield Doc/Fest. She is a Film London Lodestar 2022, a Berlinale Talent alumni and a member of the BFI NETWORK x BAFTA crew.  We talk about how she discovered a passion for sound, finding the confidence and the skills to call herself a sound designer, her ‘fever dream' experience studying at NFTS, how her career picked up momentum and how sound design can facilitate and augment story. I always enjoy the craft-centred episodes because I'm such a rookie in that space and it's such a fun opportunity to learn about a completely different area of filmmaking, so I appreciate Ines' time and I hope you get something from our conversation.

Our guest on The XR MAG Show for today is Michaela Ternasky-Holland, An Emmy, Webby, and Sheffield Doc/Fest award-winning XR/metaverse storyteller. Recently named as one of the 100 Original Voices of XR, Michaela creates non-fiction and socially impactful stories by using immersive and interactive technology. She focuses on the impact of the projects to move beyond the project itself. When she isn't creating her own original projects, she consults for socially conscious companies and non-profit organizations on creative strategy and impact production. Her work has been featured by TIME, Forbes, The Guardian, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and The New York Public Library. I'm very pleased Michaela agreed to share her experience as a special guest on the XR Magazine show! In today's episode you'll learn: What type of direction and guidance best prepared Michaela for her career success? How are the filming industry evolving and the production pipelines? What workflow process has been proven effective for Michaela when designing experiences for VR? In order to tell stories in VR/AR, what are the best tools to use? You can find Michaela Ternasky-Holland on all social media channels( LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. You can learn and download Cubism on your device to try it yourself at http://michaelaternaskyholland.com/ ----------- Gift Alert! You can now download my new XR Roadmap for Immersive Design including narrative. Click here to download it for FREE. P.S. If you've already heard about the podcast and prefer video, you can also head over to the D.O.! YT Channel to enjoy the interviews. Would you like to learn how to create immersive experiences or perhaps incorporate them into your profession or business? Great news, Circuit Stream is the only certified Unity institution to teach you how to do this and they are now an official sponsor of the podcast! So if you'd like to learn more about Circuit Stream, you can head over here: CIRCUIT STREAM! You can always find me on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn & TikTok as @dianaolynick.

My guest this week is Carmen Thompson a film programmer, curator and creative producer based in Scotland, who predominantly works with Black film and cinema from the African continent and the diaspora, especially at their intersections with non-fiction storytelling.  She currently works as cultural curator and programmer for award-winning exhibitors We Are Parable and as producer for international sales & distribution company Aya Films, where in recent years she has worked on the UK releases of acclaimed Kenyan film Rafiki (Wanuri Kahiu, 2018), Jamaican drama Sprinter (Storm Saulter, 2018) and Sundance award-winning This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection (Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, 2019). Aya Films also work across media education and in 2021 developed the app ‘Curate-It': an interactive course designed to help democratise film programming and increase access to curatorial learning, supported by Screen Scotland. Carmen has over 8 years' experience in film exhibition and distribution and has worked for a range of organisations including Sheffield Doc/Fest, Africa in Motion (AiM) Film Festival, Everyman Cinemas, New Black Film Collective and Film Hub Scotland. She also serves on the board of Document Human Rights Film Festival, Glasgow Film and the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA). We talk about her fairly circuitous route to programming and the responsibilities or considerations that come with that role, how she approaches contextualising or reframing African cinema, finding audiences who have been historically underserved when it comes to programming, leaving behind a PhD, wading into the world of freelance work and the interrogation at the heart of her programming.  As always these interviews are recorded over Zoom so quality can vary. But I hope you enjoy our conversation.    SHOW NOTES Testimonies, We Are Parable The Ripple Effect Fund, Doc Society Watch 'The Black Cop' by Cherish Oteka Screen Scotland Watch 'We' by Alice Diop, currently showing on MUBI ICO's Guide to Programming

This week Joe Mace from ITV, Nazleen Karim from Monkey Kingdom and Dan Nettleton from Bandicoot join Alice and Heather to discuss all things reality television. The pair also talk about their time at Sheffield Doc/Fest, what they've been watching, and make a case to bring back weekly episode releases. 

Critic Ben East and academic Catherine Love review Rock, Paper, Scissors, a trilogy of plays written by Chris Bush to mark the 50th anniversary of Sheffield Theatres and A Film About Studio Electrophonique, a documentary about Ken Patten's influential home studio in Sheffield. The three separate but interlinking plays will be performed simultaneously on the three stages of the Sheffield Theatres complex – Rock at the Crucible, Paper at the Lyceum and Scissors at Studio. A Film About Studio Electrophonique premieres this week at Sheffield DocFest. The documentary shines a loving spotlight on Ken Patten who built a recording studio in his council home in Sheffield and through his recording and mixing skills provided the launchpad for Pulp, ABC, Human League and many other burgeoning musicians in the steel city. The People's History Museum has been shortlisted for this year's Art Fund Museum of the Year prize. It was the Migration: a human story project which wove stories of contemporary and historic migration into the museum's existing collection that caught the judges' attention. Dr John Gallagher, associate professor of Early Modern History at Leeds University, went to visit the museum for Front Row. Saturday marks 75 years since The Diary of Anne Frank was published. Poet, writer and broadcaster Michael Rosen has written a sonnet to commemorate this and he joins Front Row to give the first public reading and discuss the enduring significance of Anne Frank's book. Presenter: Shahidha Bari Producer: Olivia Skinner Image: Chanel Waddock as Coco and Daisy May as Molly in ROCK at The Crucible Theatre, Sheffield. Photographer credit: Johan Persson

In our June edition of the show, Cinetopia founder Amanda Rogers is joined by co-Producer and Take One Magazine Editor-in-Chief, Jim Ross, as well as Cinetopia programmer, Amaya Banuelos Marco, to review six films: The big dinosaur blockbuster, Jurassic World Dominion, Mads Hedegaard's documentary Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest about Danish unsung heroes of retro 80s arcade games, Ninja Thyberg's striking and provocative first feature, Pleasure, that takes a detailed look into the Los Angeles-based porn industry. We also review three films as part of this year's Sheffield Doc/Fest: I Didn't see you there by Reid Davenport, Swing And Sway by Fernanda Pessoa and Chica Barbosa, and finally, Midwives by Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing. ------------------------ 8:05 - Jurassic World Dominion (Dir: Colin Trevorrow) 30:23 - Cannon Arm and the Arcade Quest (Dir: Mads Hedegaard) 48:20 - Pleasure (Dir: Ninja Thyberg) I Didn't see you there (Dir: Reid Davenport)  Swing And Sway (Dir: Fernanda Pessoa and Chica Barbosa) Midwives - Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing Interview with Rafael Cueto from CinemaAttic  -----------------------

On January 13th, 2018 at 8:08 am, an alert was issued to the 1.4 million citizens of Hawai'i, ‍BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Today on Obsessed Show, I'm excited to chat with the creative team behind the immersive and creative new VR film, “On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World).” On the Morning You Wake uses innovative documentary storytelling and virtual production techniques to viscerally recreate the lived experiences of people who, for 38 minutes, had to react and make impossible decisions in the face of nuclear violence. Steve Jamison is an Emmy Award-winning, BAFTA-nominated Director-Producer, and the co-founder of London production company Archer's Mark., and Co-Director and Cowriter of the Morning you Wake… Michaela Ternasky-Holland is the Emmy, Webby, and Sheffield Doc/Fest award-winning storyteller and Impact Producer for the film… Lovely Umayam is the founder and chief creative producer for Bombshelltoe, an arts collective pushing for an active exploration of arts, culture, and history to promote nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, and disarmament and impact fellow for the film. So without further ado, please enjoy this conversation with the creative team from On the Morning You Wake.

How many of you wish you could talk to a loved one who's passed on? What would it mean to you to be able to introduce your kids to a favourite relative who they never had a chance to meet? It makes me so sad to have lost my dad only 8 years ago and I wish I could pick up the phone and talk to him. My guest, Heather Smith is the mastermind behind StoryFile which can capture the stories of your loved ones for generations to come! I first saw Heather on 60 minutes when she shared her work with Holocaust survivors in order to capture their stories so they don't die with them. The link to the full interview is below. She has also interviewed astronauts, business leaders, actors, veterans, and people who are making a difference in the world today. Her innovative AI technology allows you to interview your loved ones with curated questions, and from there, the AI takes over which allows you to ask questions and they'll answer just as if they were sitting across from you. It's amazing! You can try it out yourself on their site and ask William Shatner any question you like! With Mother's Day coming up, I can't think of a better gift to give her than to capture her stories for future generations. 60 Minutes Interview: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/holocaust-stories-artificial-intelligence-60-minutes-2020-04-05/ Heather has a VALUABLE, some may say priceless gift for our listeners! In the toolbox you will find a coupon code for one free story pack and 33 extra questions. If you aren't a part of the Parent Toolbox, join here: www.parent-toolbox.com About Heather Smith Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it. Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies. The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium - natural conversation video. Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile. Contact information: Email: storyfile@storyfile.com Social Media: Website: https://storyfile.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/storyfile/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StoryFileApp/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/storyfile?lang=en Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoki3E4CCSc0xko53isO0Jw Thanks for listening! It means so much to me that you listened to my podcast! If you resonate with my message and would like my personal help in your parenting journey, I'd love to talk to you. Please visit my website to book a call with me where we can talk about your parenting frustrations and I'll share how I can help you. www.parentingforconnection.com My intention with my show is to build a...

Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile. In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it.Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology – USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies. The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium – natural conversation video.Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile.As a leader in content based technology, she has spoken about Natural Conversation at Microsoft (2017), US Holocaust Museum (2017), Dartmouth College (2018), FoST (2018), SXSW (2019), SXSW (2019), The LA Times Festival of Books (2019), M.I.T. (2020), and AI Summit (2020). Heather's work has been featured in Fast Company, NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, Reuters and BBC. She was also featured on 60 Minutes in 2020.www.storyfile.com https://www.instagram.com/storyfile/?hl=enSource: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/heather-maio-smith-award-winning-interactive-storytelling-pioneer-brilliance-business

If you are a regular listener of Camera Ready & Abel - and I hope you are! - you know that getting unstuck and stepping out of the messy middle are recurring themes. This often requires audacity, the willingness to take bold risks. My guest for this episode, Zahra Rasool, is a two-time Emmy nominated director, writer, producer and media entrepreneur working at the intersection of storytelling and innovation. Zahra bravely and boldly move from Mumbai to the United States at the age of 19 - where she had no family and knew no one - to pursue her dreams. Her natural curiosity and strong sense of self have guided her ever since. In May 2017, Zahra created and launched a media innovation and storytelling studio, AJ Contrast, part of Al Jazeera Media Network. Still Here, her documentary about incarceration and gentrification in Harlem premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.  Zahra was awarded a Gracie for Best National Online Producer by the Alliance of Women in Media Foundation (2021) and her films have been screened at over 40 international film festivals including at Sundance, Sheffield DocFest and Berlinale. Follow Zarha on instagram at @xaara @ajcontrast and on twitter @RXahra @ajcontrast

Ep 50. The Hybrid Heart; When Human Emotion Meets Tech  Listen in as we talk to Heather Maio-Smith* about the intersection of human emotion with technology for future generations to come and how it can help share what really matters; stories that are the foundation of a family.   In this episode, you'll learn:  How businesses can utilize next gen tech to support the next gen in the family  The history of StoryFile; how Heather wants to provide the ability for future generations to have conversations with Holocaust survivors  How Heather balances running StoryFile with her husband - and many other members of her family - as a family business  OUR GUEST  Heather Maio-Smith*  Heather is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile.   In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it.    Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies.  The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium - natural conversation video.    Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's  a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile.  ----------------  *Not affiliated  with Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.  Michael Palumbos is a registered representative of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.   Securities and investment advisory services offered through Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp., a broker/dealer (member SIPC) and registered investment advisor. Insurance offered through Lincoln affiliates and other fine companies.   Family Wealth and Legacy LLC is not an affiliate of Lincoln Financial Advisors Corp.  CRN-4210729-012022

My guest this week is a wonderful woman and friend: Nia Childs.  Nia is a freelance creative producer and curator working in both the fiction and documentary space. She's produced, curated and programmed projects for Doc Society, BAFTA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the London Short Film Festival and The Roundhouse. More recently, she has begun to write and direct her own films, with her debut short The Other End premiering at the BFI London Film Festival earlier this year. We spoke about a myriad of things, including managing your finances as a freelancer, making a short film in lockdown, crowdfunding and finding a producer. We also touch on storytelling about crime, climate and class and why people should watch more short films. As well how Nia overcame anxiety around bad on-set experiences to create a fun and safe atmosphere on her own set. I want to thank Nia for her candour about her finances and some of her fears about her transition to filmmaking. I genuinely think it's going to be a crucial listen for any fellow freelance creatives.

My guest this week is Heather Maio-Smith, an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings more than a decade of storytelling leadership to her brand new company, StoryFile. In 2010 Heather was creating an exhibit on intergenerational testimony with Holocaust survivors. She created a 3D prototype and formed a partnership to secure in-depth interviews interactively. Heather had always intended that once the survivors were filmed, that anyone should be able to tell their story and save it for future generations. In 2017, StoryFile was created as an automatic, cloud-based platform that would bring the power of conversational video into everyone's hands. 3:03 – Heather 101 She became an expert in intergenerational testimony and had great conversations with older people. She wanted everyone to be able to tell their story so future generations could actually talk to them and have a conversation. 6:46 – How does StoryFile work? She didn't know if her idea would work. They built a system that was completely automated and online. You record yourself answering a bunch of questions about your life. You can choose from 1,600 questions. 13:02 – Answers for future generations There's no reason nowadays that you can't have in-depth conversations with people you love. Do a StoryFile for a future generation you'll never meet. Some people think it's a bit egotistic to do, but it's not. It's a gift to future generations. 19:05 – Tell your story It's one thing to write down your story or do an audio recording of yourself, but you miss the non-verbal communication. The video element allows you to see the essence of the person. Every generation has gone through really difficult things, but it's what you learn from it and can pass along. 27:27 – How to start StoryFile Go to StoryFile.com and pick how many questions you want to do. You can pick individual questions or by topic and start recording. 28:27 – Get to know you Best concert she ever attended? Madonna in a small venue FEATURED QUOTES We wanted everyone to be able to tell their story this way so future generations could actually talk to them and have a conversation. If my kids could have the ability to talk to my grandfather, that would be amazing. Because then they would understand me and maybe understand themselves a little more. It's one thing to write down your story or do an audio recording of yourself, but you miss the non-verbal communication. CONNECT: https://storyfile.com/ ABOUT HEATHER MAIO-SMITH: Heather Maio-Smith is an award-winning interactive storytelling pioneer and technology visionary who brings over a decade of immersive storytelling leadership to StoryFile.  In 2010, Heather developed the first 3D interactive conversation with Holocaust Survivor Rose Schindler through her creative agency Conscience Display. At the time, she was creating physical video installations at the United Nations, USC, and in Havana, Cuba, but she understood that the future of storytelling lay at the intersection of digital media and ‘natural conversation' and decided to create it. Heather developed a strategic partnership with two global entities with competencies in visual media and technology - USC Shoah Foundation and the Institute for Creative Technologies.  The partnership she led has resulted in the development of a new medium - natural conversation video. Through Heather's leadership, immersive interactive natural conversation video has gone from being a concept to a reality, combining hi-fidelity multi-scopic video with voice commands to deliver commercial grade natural conversation with an individual, whether it's  a life-sized video or on your mobile device, replicating the emotional experience of having a conversation with a person. She developed and pioneered Dimensions in Testimony, a program to interview Holocaust Survivors in volumetric interactive video without that survivor actually being present. Dimensions in Testimony won both the People's Choice Award and the Jury Prize at Sheffield Doc Fest in 2016. She produced and led the project before moving on to found and lead StoryFile. As a leader in content based technology, she has spoken about Natural Conversation at Microsoft (2017), US Holocaust Museum (2017), Dartmouth College (2018), FoST (2018),  SXSW (2019), SXSW (2019), The LA Times Festival of Books (2019), M.I.T. (2020), and AI Summit (2020). Heather's work has been featured in Fast Company, NBC's The Today Show, The New Yorker, Reuters and BBC. She was also featured on 60 Minutes in 2020. Instagram: @storyfile Website:  www.storyfile.com

John Bleasdale talks to Lynne Sachs, the Memphis born, Brooklyn based filmmaker on the eve of a season of her works being streamed on the Criterion Channel. Since the 1980s, Sachs has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and collaboration, incorporating elements of the essay film, collage, performance, documentary and poetry. Her films explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. With each project, she investigates the implicit connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. Over her career, Sachs has been awarded support from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NYFA, and Jerome Foundation. Sachs has made 40 films (including Tip of My Tongue, Your Day is My Night, Investigation of a Flame, and Which Way is East). Her films have screened at the Museum of Modern Art, Wexner Center, the Walker, the Getty, New York Film Festival, and Sundance. In 2021, Edison Film Festival and Prismatic Ground Film Festival at Maysles Documentary Center awarded Sachs for her body of work. Sachs is also deeply engaged with poetry. In 2019, Tender Buttons Press published her first book Year by Year Poems. In 2020 and 2021, she taught film and poetry workshops at Beyond Baroque, Flowchart Foundation, San Francisco Public Library, and Hunter. www.lynnesachs.comAfter comprehensive career retrospectives at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 and the Museum of the Moving Image in 2021, the Criterion Channel is delighted to announce that director Lynne Sachs' films will join the Channel in October 2021 along with a newly recorded director interview exploring her works. Sachs will be making her the Criterion Channel debut with seven earlier works followed by her latest feature, Film About a Father Who, recently released theatrically by Cinema Guild and receiving its exclusive streaming premiere with the Criterion Channel. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/writers-on-film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special 5x15 podcast, Join George Monbiot, Franny Armstrong on their quest to restore our rivers to their rightful place - not only in the nation's imagination - but also to make them clean, swimmable, a rich diverse home to fish, birds and animals. Franny and George will be discussing their innovative, "live documentary"- Rivercide- and from other leading experts and campaigners. To find out more about Rivercide and how you can watch the live documentary on 14th July at 7pm on rivercide.tv. Twitter (@rivercide_live), Insta (@rivercide_live) and Facebook (facebook.com/rivercideTV). Rivercide is the world's first live investigative documentary, presented by George Monbiot, directed by Franny Armstrong and with the livestream produced by Peter Armstrong. The 60 minute programme will be broadcast live online - free to view - on July 14th at 7pm via rivercide.tv. This 5x15 discussion features: Investigative journalist, author, campaigner and self-described "professional troublemaker," George Monbiot. Monbiot is author of many acclaimed books – including Feral, Heat and Out of the Wreckage – columnist for the Guardian and environmental campaigner. George has presented many films, including Apocalypse Cow: how meat killed the planet, How Wolves Change Rivers and Nature Now. His Double Down News videos have millions of views. George is working on a new book, to be published in 2022, about how to feed the world without devouring the planet. Former pop drummer Franny Armstrong has directed three feature documentaries – Age of Stupid, McLibel, and Drowned Out. She arguably invented crowd-funding when she raised £900,000 from 300+ investors for Age of Stupid five years before Kickstarter launched. In collaboration with the Guardian, Franny founded the 10:10 campaign in 2009 which aimed to cut carbon emissions by 10% in a year. Franny has written chapters for three books, won Sheffield Doc/Fest's "Inspiration Award", been named as one of the "World's Top 100 Women" by the Guardian and one of “London's 1,000 most influential people” by The Evening Standard. Her latest projects are the climate comedy Pie Net Zero (2020), which trended at #9 on YouTube and What If (2019) starring Ed Miliband, Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas in a parallel universe where humans are tackling climate change. Peter Armstrong has been innovating new forms of progressive media for 50 years, including pioneering radio-link documentaries for Radio 4, the BBC's Domesday Project, founding the BBC Interactive Television Unit and co-founding with Anuradha Vittachi OneWorld.net, OneClimate.org and Empathymedia.org. He has pioneered the use of live-streaming from climate actions, including the Paris, Copenhagen, Cancun, Bonn and Poznan COP meetings and most recently from Extinction Rebellion on the streets of London. In 2004, he received the BAFTA Lifetime Achievement for his contributions to interactive media - only the second person to win this award, after Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Karen Shackleton is a founder member of Ilkley Clean River Group, who are now the proud owners of the first river in the UK to be awarded Bathing Water Designation by Defra. Having been always interested in wildlife from a young age, Karen joined the Wharfedale Naturalists Society and served as Vice President until recently standing down to concentrate on the Clean River Group. Nick Hayes is a trespasser and a campaigner for the right-to-roam. He is also an author, illustrator, printmaker and political cartoonist. He has published four graphic novels and has worked for, among others, Literary Review, the British Council, The New Statesman and The Guardian. The Book of Trespass is a trespasser's radical manifesto. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

So this is the final episode of Season Four - which I started back in March and honestly I have no idea where that time has gone. There will be a couple of bonus episodes coming out to coincide with some film releases, but apart from that I'll be on hiatus for a couple of months figuring out and planning for Season Five. But I feel like I'm going out with a bang!! This season has been a real treat - I've spoken to some amazing women and had some really fun but also important conversations and that trend is definitely continuing with this episode in which I spoke to Mandy Chang, who is currently the Commissioning Editor at the BBC's feature documentary strand Storyville.  Mandy has been on my radar for several years, I've seen her speak at Sheffield Doc/Fest and have watched many of the films she's commissioned and executive produced and I was incredibly excited when she said yes to being interviewed. I knew it would be one of those interviews where an hour / hour and a half is simply not enough time to ask all the right questions and I'm sure there are plenty of other paths that we could've gone down but what you're about to hear is the conversation that we did have and I found it to be as thoughtful and illuminating as I had hoped. Mandy started out as a freelance filmmaker, producing and directing docs for TV. Her credits include The Mona Lisa Curse, an Emmy and Grierson award-winning polemic that traces the pernicious rise of the art market and The Camera That Changed The World, a portrait of the first portable cameras and the impact they had on filmmaking and filmmakers.  Mandy was later Head of Arts at ABC TV, a broadcaster in Australia before joining Storyville in 2017. During her time there she has shepherded many incredible documentaries to our screen, among them are: UNDER THE WIRE, ONE CHILD NATION, COLD CASE HAMMARSKJÖLD, INTO THE STORM, I AM GRETA and the upcoming MISHA AND THE WOLVES.  And she has just been announced as the new Global Head of Documentaries at Fremantle where she will spearhead the producer-distributor's growth in high-end factual production.  We talked about her filmmaking career and how she sustained that for two decades, as well as how those experiences have informed her approach to commissioning. We discuss how she built on Storyville's legacy whilst also pushing it in new and bold directions, why caretaking is a central part of her commissioning philosophy and what that means and what excites her about the future of documentary. I think Mandy was really generous with her answers and I certainly got a lot from hearing about her career journey, so I hope you do as well.

This month, Cinetopia founder Amanda Rogers is joined with show regulars Marc Nelson and Clara Strachan. Together they review Emma Seligman's debut film, SHIVA BABY, Magnus von Horn's SWEAT, and Elia Suleiman's IT MUST BE HEAVEN. The team also covers the 2021 edition of the Sheffield Doc/Fest, including in-depth reviews of SUMMER OF SOUL (...OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) directed by Ahmir-Khalib “Questlove” Thompson, THE STORY OF LOOKING by Mark Cousins and ALL LIGHT, EVERYWHERE by Theo Anthony. ----------------------- 03:05 - Shiva Baby (Dir: Emma Seligman) 13:28 - Sweat (Dir: Magnus von Horn) 23:03 - It Must Be Heaven (Dir: Elia Suleiman) 38:57 - Sheffield Doc/Fest

Fancy watching a fantastic documentary? This episode is full of recommendations, as we celebrate the world-renowned British documentary festival, Sheffield DocFest. First up, Anna talks with Festival Director Cíntia Gil about how this year's Sheffield DocFest has come together. Cíntia selects a few of her favourite female-focused docs, that include everything from polyamorous weddings to weight lifting! Anna and Cíntia reflect on the surge of feminist reformative histories and new wave of female-directed docs. Is there a gendered gaze?  Next up, critic Simran Hans tells Anna why Sheffield DocFest is a special place for her. Together, they review the tumultuous personal portrait Charm Circle and the coming-of-age trans story If God Were a Woman. Simran recommends the clever and impactful short film, They Won't Call It Murder.  Anna's final guest is the director, producer and cinematographer of This Stained Dawn, Anam Abbas. This thoughtful doc explores the feminist movement in Pakistan. Anam details the important impact of marching and hopes her film will connect feminists across borders. She talks sisterhood, shocking moments, and what it means to be a part of Sheffield DocFest. Docs mentioned: Charm Circle, This Stained Dawn, My Name is Pauli Murray, Lift Like a Girl, If God Were a Woman, They Won't Call It Murder. They Won't Call It Murder clip – Courtesy of Field of Vision   This episode is in partnership with Sheffield DocFest. Book tickets at sheffdocfest.com Become a patron of Girls on Film on Patreon here: www.patreon.com/girlsonfilmpodcast
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Greta Van Fleet propose le titre "Built By Nations" en live. Coldplay sortira "Higher Power", un tout nouveau titre, le 7 mai. Deux versions inédites de Fleetwood Mac avec Peter Green, David Gilmour et Kirk Hammett ont été publiées. L’album live ‘’No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith’’ de Motorhead fête ses 40 ans avec une belle édition. John Mayer serait en discussion avec la chaîne CBS pour animer une émission TV dans le même concept que celui du ‘’Later… with Jools Holland’’. Le film ‘’Blondie : Vivir en la Habana’’ sera projeté en avant-première cet été au Sheffield Doc Fest. --- Classic 21 vous informe des dernières actualités du rock, en Belgique et partout ailleurs. Le Journal du Rock, chaque jour à 7h30 et 18h30.

In this recorded conversation on Clubhouse alongside the #STANDWITHASIANS programming on 3/26/21, Ethan and Michaela explore concepts of love of self, inter-relational love, elevating unseen lived experiences with storytelling, the challenges of labels like 'ally' and how to cultivate our sacred selves in a society that is designed to control and limit us instead of care for us. - - - Michaela Ternasky-Holland is a multi-racial Emmy, Webby, and Sheffield Doc/Fest award-winning documentarian, who combines experimental content with traditional mediums. She works with clients as a consultant and creative strategist. She is a recognized public speaker who has presented at international conferences, public institutions, and podcasts. Her work has been featured by TIME, Forbes, The Guardian, Cannes Film Festival, New York Public Library, Tribeca Film Festival and more. Not only does she strive to be a part of purpose-driven projects that vocalize and educate about diversity in storytelling, but she also works in tandem with decision-makers, committees, and boards of directors that financially support, mentor, and create opportunities for those of all backgrounds. In short, she works for the impact of the projects to move beyond the project itself. She has been invaluable within these spaces to raise awareness concerning but not limited to: privilege, neurodivergent, differing physical abilities, ethnicities, sexual identifications, and age. Join the Love Extremist Project at www.extremist.love and on Instagram Find Ethan at www.ethanlipsitz.com and on Instagram

It's been one year since our worlds have changed and we thought it was a good time to check in on our mental health. Sarah Taylor sits down with psychotherapist Rebecca Day to talk about our mental health as creatives in the midst of a pandemic. Rebecca Day is a qualified psychotherapist and freelance documentary producer. She founded her company, Film In Mind in 2018 to address mental health in the film industry and has spoken at festivals such as Berlinale, IDFA, Getting Real Documentary Conference, WIFT and Sheffield DocFest on the issue. She offers therapeutic support and supervision to filmmakers working in difficult situations and with vulnerable people, as well as consultancies and workshops on mental health in the film industry. Her previous feature, Becoming Animal, directed by Emma Davie & Peter Mettler was a Scottish/Swiss co-production and premiered at CPH Dox in 2018. She is currently working with the impact team on Evelyn, an intimate and poignant film about death by suicide, made by academy award-winning director Orlando Von Eisendel at Grain Media and is producing a documentary with first-time feature director, Duncan Cowles titled, Silent Men.

It's a new year! And we're celebrating with a special four-part mini-series exploring current and controversial topics that are shaping culture at the moment. In this first episode, we are tackling the hot topic of cancel culture. Is cancel culture an effective way to affect change? Is this trend going too far? Should celebrities, companies, and public figures be held accountable for their private actions? And is cancel culture having a deeper impact on our personal relationships than we may realize?    Yep, we are going there and we have the perfect guest to explore this topic more closely! Alissa Wilkinson a staff critic at Vox, where she mostly writes about film, TV, culture, and the arts, often where they intersect with media, religion, and rhetoric. She is also an associate professor of English and humanities at The King's College in New York City. Alissa is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the WGA East, and was an inaugural writing fellow with the Sundance Institute's Art of Nonfiction Initiative. She served on juries at the Sundance Film Festival, DOC NYC, Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Hamptons International Film Festival, and others, and selection committees for groups including the Gotham Awards and the Sundance Documentary Film Program. She is also the co-author of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cyclones, and Politics at the End of the World. More about our guest Alissa Wilkinson: For more info, visit www.alissawilkinson.com Follow Alissa on instagram @alissawilkinson Read the latest from Alissa Wilkinson at www.vox.com This podcast episode is sponsored by Women of Consequence: What if you had total clarity on who you are and what you're meant to do in the world? If you're ready to step into your unique life purpose, Chanel Dokun, Founder of the Women of Consequence community, is here to help you unlock your potential. Women of Consequence is an online membership community where ambitious women gather to explore their life purpose. Guided by certified life planner and relationship expert Chanel Dokun, you will identify your talents, cultivate your passions, and create an action plan to move into your version of the good life. Each month, your membership in the community gives you live access to transformational virtual workshops, an online program to walk you through writing your life purpose statement, and connection to an authentic community of like-hearted women. Whether you want to launch a purpose-driven business, start a new relationship or just live with more intention, Women of Consequence is for you. Chanel has helped hundreds of women find their purpose. What untapped potential will you discover in the community? Join today. To learn more, visit womenofconsequence.co now.

This week's @EchoChamberFP has three offerings for you. We start all Christmasy, it then gets rather killy and ends a bit melancholy This week we have: Midnight at the Magnolia Release Date: 5th November 2020 Director: Max McGuire Cast: Natalie Hall, Evan Williams, Michael Gordin Shore, Steven Cumyn, Alison Brooks Credit: Neshama Entertainment, MarVista Entertainment, Netflix Genre: Comedy, Romance Running Time: 87 min Cert: PG Trailer: Here. ------------ Game of Death Release Date: 26th November 2020 Director: Sebastien Landry, Laurence Morais-Lagace Cast: Sam Earle, Victoria Diamond, Emelia Hellman, Erniel Baez, Catherine Saindon, Nick Serino, Thomas Vallieres, Jane Hackett Credit: Productions Guérilla (GOD), Rockzeline, Blackpills, Smart Dog Productions Genre: Horror, Thriller Running Time: 73 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. ------------ Hillbilly Elegy Release Date: 24th November 2020 Director: Ron Howard Cast: Glenn Close, Amy Adams, Gabriel Basso, Haley Bennett, Freida Pinto, Bo Hopkins, Owen Asztalos Credit: Imagine Entertainment, Netflix Genre: Drama Running Time: 116 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. ------------ ****UK Film Festival 2020**** This year’s UK Film Festival London (UKFF) will take place online from 22– 29 November, and will offer UK and worldwide audiences a unique chance to catch the latest award-winning short films in the comfort of their own homes. Progamme: Here. Online festival passes: £9.00 Tickets: £3.00 and £4.50 Buy tickets here. ------------ ***Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020*** From Friday 13th November (17:00 GMT) until Thursday 26th November (23:59 GMT) Sheffield Doc/Fest will present it's fourth (and final!) programme from their 2020 festival: Ghosts & Apparitions For access & information: here. Twitter: @sheffdocfest Facebook: Here. Instagram: @sheffdocfest ------------ *(Music) 'Take Me Out' by Franz Ferdinand - 2004

We have another double header this week on @EchoChamberFP In part one, we check a couple of love stories, one with a supernatural leaning, the other Christmas themed PLUS, don't forget the incredible Indiegogo 'Cinema Showtime' project whose funds will help MediCinema So, why not join forces with Strike Media, MyFilmClub & Creative Path Ltd and make this happen! This week we have: Endless Release Date: 23rd November 2020 Director: Scott Speer Cast: Alexandra Shipp, Nicholas Hamilton, DeRon Horton, Ian Tracey, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Eddie Ramos, Zoë Belkin & Famke Janssen Credit: Summerstorm Entertainment, Thunder Road Pictures, Film House Germany, The Movie Partnership Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance Running Time: 95 min Cert: 12a Trailer: Here. Instagram: @endlessfilmuk ------------ A New York Christmas Wedding Release Date: 6th November 2020 Director: Otoja Abit Cast: Nia Fairweather, Chris Noth, Cooper Koch, Adriana DeMeo, Tyra Ferrell Credit: Besties Make Movies, Conglomerate Media, Willful Productions, Netflix Genre: Drama, Romance Running Time: 88 min Cert: 12a Trailer: Here. Website: Here. Instagram: @findingstevemcqueenmovie ------------ ****UK Film Festival 2020**** This year’s UK Film Festival London (UKFF) will take place online from 22– 29 November, and will offer UK and worldwide audiences a unique chance to catch the latest award-winning short films in the comfort of their own homes. Progamme: Here. Online festival passes: £9.00 Tickets: £3.00 and £4.50 Buy tickets here. ------------ ***Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020*** From Friday 13th November (17:00 GMT) until Thursday 26th November (23:59 GMT) Sheffield Doc/Fest will present it's fourth (and final!) programme from their 2020 festival: Ghosts & Apparitions For access & information: here. Twitter: @sheffdocfest Facebook: Here. Instagram: @sheffdocfest ------------ *(Music) 'Well Thought Out Twinkles' by Silversun Pickups - 2006

Our second part of today's @EchoChamberFP is here and not only do we check out a new horror which shows the perils of forming attachments to people on screens. BUT, we also talk with lead actress Amy Rutledge (you can watch this on our YouTube as well!!!). So, people, you are in for a treat! PLUS, don't forget the incredible Indiegogo 'Cinema Showtime' project whose funds will help MediCinema So, why not join forces with Strike Media, MyFilmClub & Creative Path Ltd and make this happen! In today's episode: Rent-A-Pal Release Date: 16th November 2020 DVD Release Date: 11th January 2021 Director: Jon Stevenson Cast: Brian Landis Folkins, Amy Rutledge, Wil Wheaton, Kathleen Brady, Adrian Egolf, Josh Staab Credit: Pretty People Pictures, IFC Midnight, Lightbulb Film Distribution Genre: Horror, Thriller Running Time: 108 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. Website: Here. YouTube: Watch Interview here. Digital Platforms: iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sky Store, Sony, TalkTalk, Virgin, Rakuten & BT iTunes pre order: Here. ------------ ****UK Film Festival 2020**** This year’s UK Film Festival London (UKFF) will take place online from 22– 29 November, and will offer UK and worldwide audiences a unique chance to catch the latest award-winning short films in the comfort of their own homes. Progamme: Here. Online festival passes: £9.00 Tickets: £3.00 and £4.50 Buy tickets here. ------------ ***Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020*** From Friday 13th November (17:00 GMT) until Thursday 26th November (23:59 GMT) Sheffield Doc/Fest will present it's fourth (and final!) programme from their 2020 festival: Ghosts & Apparitions For access & information: here. Twitter: @sheffdocfest Facebook: Here. Instagram: @sheffdocfest ------------ *(Music) 'Checkered Floor' by Silversun Pickups - 2006

It's part 2 of today's @EchoChamberFP and this one's a powerful mudda!!! We checkout a short film that tackles domestic abuse, but in a way that resonates to your core. Then we speak to Jessica Graham, the films highly talented director. PLUS, don't forget the incredible Indiegogo 'Cinema Showtime' project whose funds will help MediCinema So, why not join forces with Strike Media, MyFilmClub & Creative Path Ltd and make this happen! In today's episode: Listen Release Date: 28th October 2020 Director: Jessica Graham Cast: Amy Walker, Trey McCurley, Christina Moses Credit: SitkaBlu Productions Genre: Short, Drama Running Time: 7 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. Vimeo: Here. YouTube: Here. Instagram: @jessicaclarkgraham @clarkd1 @amywalkerofficial @treymccurley @christinasmoses @sherrikauk @christophersorenkelly @crystalsmakeupartistry @kevindippold1 ------------ ****UK Film Festival 2020**** This year’s UK Film Festival London (UKFF) will take place online from 22– 29 November, and will offer UK and worldwide audiences a unique chance to catch the latest award-winning short films in the comfort of their own homes. Progamme: Here. Online festival passes: £9.00 Tickets: £3.00 and £4.50 Buy tickets here. ------------ ***Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020*** From Friday 13th November (17:00 GMT) until Thursday 26th November (23:59 GMT) Sheffield Doc/Fest will present it's fourth (and final!) programme from their 2020 festival: Ghosts & Apparitions For access & information: here. Twitter: @sheffdocfest Facebook: Here. Instagram: @sheffdocfest ------------ *(Music) 'Soul Meets Body' by Death Cab for Cutie - 2007

Today's @EchoChamberFP is a two parter!!! In this first entry, we check out a short film from a legendary director and true life bank heist feature. PLUS, don't forget the incredible Indiegogo 'Cinema Showtime' project whose funds will help MediCinema So, why not join forces with Strike Media, MyFilmClub & Creative Path Ltd and make this happen! This week we have: The Human Voice Release Date: 7th November 2020 Director: Pedro Almodóvar Cast: Tilda Swinton, Agustín Almodóvar, Miguel Almodóvar Credit: El Deseo, FilmNation Entertainment Genre: Short, Drama Running Time: 30 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. Twitter: @TodoAlmodovar Instagram: @todoalmodovar ------------ Finding Steve McQueen Release Date: 16th November 2020 Director: Mark Steven Johnson Cast: Travis Fimmel, William Fichtner, Rachael Taylor & Forest Whitaker Credit: AMBI Group, BondIt Media Capital, Identity Films, The Movie Partnership Genre: Crime, Thriller Running Time: 91 min Cert: 15 Trailer: Here. Instagram: @findingstevemcqueenmovie Digital Platforms: iTunes, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sky Store, Sony, TalkTalk, Virgin, Rakuten & BT iTunes pre order: Here. ------------ ****UK Film Festival 2020**** This year’s UK Film Festival London (UKFF) will take place online from 22– 29 November, and will offer UK and worldwide audiences a unique chance to catch the latest award-winning short films in the comfort of their own homes. Progamme: Here. Online festival passes: £9.00 Tickets: £3.00 and £4.50 Buy tickets here. ------------ ***Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020*** From Friday 13th November (17:00 GMT) until Thursday 26th November (23:59 GMT) Sheffield Doc/Fest will present it's fourth (and final!) programme from their 2020 festival: Ghosts & Apparitions For access & information: here. Twitter: @sheffdocfest Facebook: Here. Instagram: @sheffdocfest ------------ *(Music) 'Different Names for the Same Thing' by Death Cab for Cutie - 2005

This week our Programme Associate Carol Nahra is in conversation with veteran documentary maker Vanessa Engle. In the first 15 years of her career Vanessa made arts documentaries for the BBC. Since 2005, Vanessa has been making authored social affairs documentaries on a wide range of subjects, many of which explore our fundamental values and belief systems. Read more about Vanessa and her work in our Filmmaker Spotlight blog here: https://dochouse.org/online/news/filmmaker-spotlight-vanessa-engle See what's on our online hub here: https://dochouse.org/online Find out more about Carol Nahra here: https://dochouse.org/content/about-our-mission Films made available to watch online: THE FUNERAL MURDERS (2018): https://vimeo.com/254890766 THE CULT NEXT DOOR (2017): https://vimeo.com/199854967 LOVE YOU TO DEATH: A YEAR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (2015): https://vimeo.com/428581797 INSIDE HARLEY STREET: EP 3 MAKE ME WELL (2015): https://vimeo.com/199687406 WALKING WITH DOGS (2012): https://vimeo.com/207806684 MONEY Series: MONEY: EP 1 WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE? (2011): https://vimeo.com/199687434 MONEY: EP 2 COUPLES (2011): https://vimeo.com/203309640 WOMEN Series: WOMEN: EP 1 LIBBERS (2010): https://vimeo.com/199687800 JEWS Series: JEWS: EP 1 THE PRISONER (2008): https://vimeo.com/204906690 JEWS: EP 2 THE NEXT GENERATION (2008): https://vimeo.com/202956587 LEFTIES Series:LEFTIES: EP 1 PROPERTY IS THEFT (2006): https://vimeo.com/203302351 LEFTIES: EP 3 A LOT OF BALLS (2006): https://vimeo.com/198846049 ART & THE 60s Series: ART & THE 60s: EP 2 FROM BRONZE TO BAKED BEANS (2004): https://vimeo.com/198854670 LINKS Late Show Arts Magazine Programme: Mary Harron: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0366004/ Paul Greengrass: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0339030/ James Marsh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marsh_(director) Alan Hayling: https://www.renegadepictures.co.uk/person/alan-hayling_136.aspx Natalie Briggs article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/dec/08/subject-tv-documentary Natalie Briggs article: https://www.cilexlawschool.ac.uk/news-resources/news/bbc-two-documentary-leads-to-life-changing-opportunity-for-natalie-briggs/ Patrick Caulfield: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/patrick-caulfield-873 Barry Flanagan: https://barryflanagan.com/ Adam Curtis: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193231/ Sheffield Doc/Fest session mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4g8fz92lHk&t=671s Follow us at @BerthaDocHouse Check out our website for upcoming watch parties and podcasts: https://dochouse.org/

Charlie Phillips is the head of video at The Guardian. Before working at The Guardian, Charlie was deputy director at Sheffield DocFest and an editor at FourDocs. In this conversation, Charlie and I discuss the trends shaping the documentary industry, what kind of access and consent lead to great films, and what qualities make a film stand out from the crowd as one that The Guardian wants to commission and share with the world. Thank you for listening! Subscribe to Austin Meyer's Newsletter for short monthly emails on storytelling and creativity! Support the show on Patreon Follow Austin on: Instagram Facebook www.austinmeyerfilms.com

Kelli Weston hosts a conversation with Sophie Brown, Simran Hans and Ben Nicholson to discuss some of the picks of this year's Sheffield documentary festival: • RaMell Ross's Hale County This Morning, This Evening • Bing Liu's Minding the Gap • Khalik Allah's Black Mother • Nathaniel Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle and Scott Barley's Sleep Has Her House • Sandi Tan's Shirkers • and Erick Stoll and Chase Whiteside's América

An interview with the director of Sheffield Doc Fest and member of the international jury at this year's One World. The post Elizabeth McIntyre #jedensvet2018 appeared first on Fred Film Radio.

Rams is an excellent Icelandic film out today. It brought to mind Addicted To Sheep - a home-grown hit at the 2015 Sheffield Doc/Fest - they'd make a great double bill.

In the last of our series highlighting the audio documentary form, Vicky Frost and Nina Garthwaite explore Paris through the work of producer Katharina Smets

In the second of four programmes, Vicky Frost talks to Nina Garthwaite about Sheffield Doc/Fest and listens to another shortlisted audio documentary.

As Doc/Fest 2014 gets underway in Sheffield, Vicky Frost talks to the founder of In The Dark Nina Garthwaite, a group dedicated to championing the radio feature documentary