Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast

Filmmaker Madeleine Gavin discusses her award-winning documentary ‘Beyond Utopia,’ a gripping account of North Koreans who risk everything to flee their brutal country, and the South Korean pastor helping them reach safety and a new life abroad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Film subject Bobi Wine and directors Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp join us to talk about Bobi Wine: The People's President, about the Ugandan pop star-turned-politician who risked everything to take on his country's brutal dictator. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get to know co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey as they discuss their goals surrounding Doc Talk, the changing landscape of documentary films and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Director Errol Morris joins us to talk about his latest documentary, 'The Pigeon Tunnel,' about spy novelist David Cornwell, better known by his pen name, John le Carré. The Oscar winner explains why he found one moment in his film especially "disturbing and dark" and why Cornwell's father, Ronnie, reminds him of Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filmmakers Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss join us to talk about their National Geographic documentary ‘The Mission,’ the story of young Christian missionary John Chau who set off to convert an uncontacted Indigenous group living on a remote island. His death, in a hail of arrows, made news around the world and raised questions about the morality of trying to spread the Gospel to Indigenous peoples...

Sean Penn talks about his pulse-pounding documentary ‘Superpower,’ a ground-level view of Ukraine under devastating attack from Russia. He explains why he’s “repelled” by people on the left who call for peace at all costs. And Penn gets personal exploring a question he asked himself: “Why was I, so much of my life, uncomfortable in my own skin?”   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone....

Actress-turned-filmmaker Kasia Smutniak joins us to talk about her debut documentary "Walls," which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the premiere episode of Doc Talk, a new podcast hosted by Oscar-winning writer-director John Ridley and Deadline’s documentary editor, Matt Carey. We’re kicking off with a deep dive into documentary’s power to right a grave wrong in the criminal justice system by helping free a wrongfully convicted prisoner. Only a handful of nonfiction filmmakers has achieved this extraordinary feat, a...

Hosted by Oscar-winning filmmaker John Ridley and Deadline’s Documentary Editor, Matt Carey, Doc Talk features weekly interviews with filmmakers, storytellers, and industry leaders about creating critical content with the power to move the genre forward – and possibly change the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices