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.
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 of racism in the U.S.
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.
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 the Night” about daycare workers was meant to premiere at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival.