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5 Chilling Details From Netflix’s Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes

Memories of a Murderer: The Nilsen Tapes is narrated by the very man whose gruesome story it tells: Dennis Nilsen, one of Britain's…

3 years ago
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How We Made Our Film We Don’t Deserve Dogs — Almost Alone

Matthew Salleh is the director, cinematographer and editor of We Don’t Deserve Dogs, which chronicles the relationship between dogs and…

3 years ago
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  • Interviews

A People Uncounted: An Interview with Aaron Yeger

In his feature directorial debut A People Uncounted, director Aaron Yeger sheds light on the story of the Roma, commonly…

3 years ago
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Confronting a Serial Killer Director Joe Berlinger: We're in the Third Documentary Revolution

Joe Berlinger probably had a hand in whatever new docuseries you’re binging. He executive produced the new serial-bomber doc Murder…

3 years ago
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Why Did You Kill Me: What Belinda Lane Did to Solve Her Daughter Crystal's Murder

Belinda Lane spent 14 years bringing to justice the people responsible for the death of her daughter, Crystal Theobald. The…

3 years ago
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Ken Burns: Things I've Learned as a Moviemaker

This fall marks the 40th anniversary of Ken Burns’ first documentary, Brooklyn Bridge. In the decades since, he’s established himself…

3 years ago
  • Interviews

How The Truffle Hunters Directors Stumbled Upon a Mysterious Community in Northern Italy

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, collaborators on the racing documentary The Last Race, found themselves traveling through the same parts…

3 years ago
  • Interviews

How The Truffle Hunters Directors Stumbled Upon a Mysterious Community in Northern Italy

Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, collaborators on the racing documentary The Last Race, found themselves traveling through the same parts…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Slamdance Doc A Tiny Ripple of Hope Tracks One Man’s Sacrifices to Help Chicago Youth (Exclusive Clip)

A Tiny Ripple of Hope — now available to stream through the Slamdance Film Festival — follows Jahmal Cole as he…

3 years ago
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Sundance Survey: Moviemakers Give Us an Inside Preview of 19 Sundance Films

The Sundance Film Festival was one of the few in-person events unscathed by the pandemic in 2020, since it begins…

3 years ago
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Baby God: Meet the Vegas Fertility Doc Who Secretly Used His Own Sperm on Countless Women

https://shows.acast.com/moviemaker-interviews/episodes/hannah-olson-baby-god Baby God chronicles how Las Vegas fertility doctor Quincy Fortier impregnated patients with his own sperm, without their consent…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

Soros Director Jesse Dylan on How George Soros Became a ‘Boogeyman’ of the Right

George Soros may seem a strange target for political vitriol: He's a Holocaust survivor and philanthropist who has given much…

3 years ago
  • Podcasts

64 Died in a Nightclub Fire — and a Whole Government Resigned

The horrors of the 2015 Colectiv nightclub fire in Bucharest, Romania — as recounted in the stunning documentary Collective —…

3 years ago
  • Movie News

Spree and Online Narcissism; The Right Stuff Trailer; DTF Documentary Ethics

In today's Movie News Rundown: The new Right Stuff trailer is here; the Tiger King zoo is closing and re-opening as a…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

Meet Daryl Davis, the Black Musician Who Makes Klansmen See That Black Lives Matter

In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. Sound familiar? It’s the Golden Rule found in…

4 years ago
  • Interviews

(In)Visible Portraits Is a ‘Love Letter to Black Women and a Re-education for Everyone Else’

The dedication for (In)Visible Portraits, the new documentary from Oge Egbuonu, calls it a “love letter to Black women and a reeducation…

4 years ago
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You Don’t Nomi Succeeds Where Showgirls Fails (Podcast)

If you were being generous to Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven's notorious 1995 bomb about a dancer named Nomi Malone who dreams…

4 years ago
  • Movie News

Ren & Stimpy Doc Makers Explain Why They Didn’t Tell a #MeToo Story

The directors of Happy Happy Joy Joy, a Sundance documentary about the '90s cartoon Ren & Stimpy and its creator,…

4 years ago
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Midnight Traveler: a Family’s Phones Document the Refugee Crisis

Midnight Traveler, a new documentary from producers Emelie Coleman Mahdavian and Su Kim, uses one of our most familiar possessions…

5 years ago
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Kings of Beer Director Sean Mullin On Maintaining Artistic Integrity While Working on Branded Content

Kings of Beer follows six of Budweiser’s top brewmasters. The diverse cast of characters and their dedication to consistently brewing…

5 years ago
  • Directing

Zhuhai Caper: The Long Gone Wild Team Almost Landed in a Chinese Gulag While Filming Undercover

You may remember Ric O'Barry from the Oscar-winning documentary, The Cove, in which he and a team of daring filmmakers…

5 years ago
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Journalism Plus: How Hail Satan?, The Brink, and Leaving Neverland Blend Truth-Seeking With Cinematic Storytelling

"Journalism Plus" is how Academy Award-winning moviemaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) characterizes making documentaries. If you’re a documentarian, you may not…

5 years ago
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Was Lost, But Now It’s Found: Alan Elliott on Completing the 1972 Aretha Franklin Music Doc Amazing Grace

Among the many disparate and overlapping interested parties—lovers of soul, lovers of concert documentaries, Sydney Pollack fans, Christians—the news of…

5 years ago
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Mixed Media: Award-Winning Touch Me Not Explores Notions of Intimacy Through a Variety of Boundary-Pushing Methods

Part documentary, part narrative feature, part research project, part autofiction, Romanian writer/director Adina Pintilie's Touch Me Not rests comfortably on the boundary…

5 years ago