This episode was recorded live on July 24, 2020. On Episode 11, Tom Oyer, Associate Director at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), joins us to discuss the body’s new rules for the 2020 Oscars in the wake of Covid-19. Filmmaker Carol Dysinger, director of Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl), 2019 Academy […]
This episode was recorded live on July 10, 2020. On Episode 10, we talk to director Dawn Porter about her new film John Lewis: Good Trouble about the civil rights crusader. Filmmaker Sam Feder discusses his Netflix documentary Disclosure about transgender representation in film and television. Judith Helfand talks about her film Cooked: Survival by Zip Code examining how poor communities […]
Watch Episode 4 On Episode 4, Nadia Hallgren talks about her Netflix documentary Becoming about Michelle Obama. Marc Levin discusses his Quibi series I Promise about an Ohio grade school backed by Lebron James. And Nelson George reflects on interviewing our elders after his father’s death from Covid-19. Resources: Watch Becoming on Netflix Watch I Promise on Quibi Read “Death Can’t Take the Stories […]
Watch Episode 3 Friday Fix Episode 3 focuses on PBS’s Asian Americans, interviewing two executive producers of the five-part series, Renee Tajima-Pena and Jean Tsien. Plus, filmmaker Hao Wu, director of the Netflix short All in My Family discusses how he witnessed Covid-19 arrive in China, then later in the U.S. The three guests will reflect on rising expressions […]
Watch Episode 2 Friday Fix Episode 2 interviews Janet Tobias, director of Unseen Enemy about pandemics; Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert, the Oscar-winning directors of American Factory; and Gordon Quinn of Kartemquin Films in Chicago, who was recently hospitalized with Covid-19. Resources: Watch Unseen Enemy More on 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement More on Kartemquin Films Pure […]
Watch Episode 1 Our first episode features three filmmakers discussing their latest projects. Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus discusses the Netflix series “The Innocence Files” about wrongfully convicted prisoners. Director Rachel Mason talks about her doc “Circus of Books” about the gay porn shop run by her parents. Loira Limbal discusses her debut feature doc “Through […]