Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast

Doc Talk: A Deadline and Nō Studios Podcast

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.

Episodes

Oscar Nominees 'All The Empty Rooms' & 'The Devil Is Busy'

February 10, 2026 • 58 mins
We're joined by the makers of two Oscar-nominated short documentaries: Joshua Seftel, director of All the Empty Rooms, and Geeta Gandbhir and Christalyn Hampton, directors of The Devil Is Busy (Gandbhir is separately nominated for directing the feature documentary The Perfect Neighbor). Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey also get into whether the new Melania documentary should be considered a success or a flop. Learn more about your ...
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Sundance Filmmakers Michał Marczak, Poh Si Teng, Alex Gibney & More

February 3, 2026 • 65 mins
Doc Talk reports from  the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, speaking with the directors of Closure, American Doctor, Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie, The Brittney Griner Story, and Jane Elliott Against the World. We also hear from Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses, and WNBA star Griner about participating in their respective documentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oscar Nominations Reaction & Sundance Interviews

January 27, 2026 • 68 mins
Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the Oscar nominations — dominated in the Best Documentary Feature category by films that premiered at Sundance. We also report from the 2026 edition of Sundance, speaking with the makers of Ghost in the Machine (premiereing in the NEXT section) and Joybubbles (premiering in U.S. Documentary Competition). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sundance Doc Programmers Basil Tsiokos & Sudeep Sharma

January 20, 2026 • 54 mins
Sundance documentary programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma share insights on the nonfiction film lineup for the 2026 festival, the final one to be held in Park City, Utah. They share their picks for must-see documentary features in competition, NEXT and other sections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oscar-Shortlisted Filmmakers Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman, David Borenstein, and Richard Ladkani

January 13, 2026 • 62 mins
We're joined by several filmmakers hoping to earn an Oscar nomination for their documentary features: Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, directors of The Alabama Solution; David Borenstein, director of Mr. Nobody Against Putin, and Richard Ladkani, director of Yanuni. In the Yanuni segment, we'll also speak with the producer and protagonist of the film, Brazilian Indigenous activist Juma Xipaia.  Learn more about your ad choices...
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Oscar-Shortlisted Documentaries

January 6, 2026 • 66 mins
We explore three shortlisted documentaries: from Come See Me in the Good Light, director Ryan White joins us; director Amber Fares of Coexistence, My Ass! visits Doc Talk studios with the protagonist of her film, Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi; and from the short documentary We Were the Scenery, we welcome director Christopher Radcliff. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Documentary Shortlists 98th Oscars

December 23, 2025 • 51 mins
Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey dissect the documentary shortlists for the 98th Academy Awards. There were major snubs (a NatGeo darling and a celebrity-oriented HBO doc) — and surprising inclusions (numerous films without U.S. distribution). Oscar winner Ridley (12 Years a Slave) gets into the documentaries that should have made the cut but didn't. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Filmmakers Victor Kossakovsky and Lynne Sachs

December 17, 2025 • 74 mins
Filmmakers Victor Kossakofsky and Lynne Sachs join us for a conversation about their latest documentaries, which premiered at IDFA. Kossakovsky's Trillion unfolds in lustrous black and white, without dialogue. Sachs' film, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, begins with her going through a stack of 600 business cards she has collected over decades, and reveals what happens when she reaches out to some of those contacts. Hosts John Ridley...
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Winners Of The IDA Documentary Awards

December 9, 2025 • 53 mins
We report from the 41st Annual IDA Documentary Awards in Los Angeles, speaking with newly-minted winners as they come off stage. Joining us are Tamara Kotevska (The Tale of Silyan); Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino (Apocalypse in the Tropics); Brittany Shyne (Seeds); Alex Megaro (WTO/99), and Jenny Raskin of Impact Partners (winner of the IDA's Pioneer Award). We explore what the IDA validation means for these creatives, as well ...
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Trio Of Oscar-Contending Documentary Features

December 2, 2025 • 61 mins
We speak with the filmmakers behind three of the top contenders in the Oscars' Best Documentary Feature category: The Tale of Silyan, directed by Tamara Kotevska; Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, directed by Sepideh Farsi, and Cover-Up, directed by Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus. We caught up with them at SFFILM's Doc Stories in San Francisco, a 4-day film festival that has become  a critical stop during awards season. Learn m...
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Report From IDFA With Festival Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez And Filmmaker Petra Costa

November 25, 2025 • 67 mins
Doc Talk travels to Amsterdam for IDFA, the world's biggest docmentary festival. We speak with new Artistic Director Isabel Arrate Fernandez about assuming leadership of the festival after many years heading up the IDFA Bertha Fund. Arrate Fernandez discusses reaction to the festival's controversial decision to ban Israeli organiations that accept money from Israel's government to support their activities. We also visit with Brazil...
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Richard Gere And Oren Moverman On 'Wisdom Of Happiness'

November 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Wisdom of Happiness executive producers Richard Gere and Oren Moverman join us for a conversation about their documentary focusing on the Dalai Lama's insights into finding happiness in a world that seems full of chaos and uncertainty. Gere tells us how a technique borrowed from filmmaker Errol Morris helped transform the film into "pure magic." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Doc Stories' Anne Lai And Jessie Fairbanks Plus 'A Life Illuminated' Director

November 11, 2025 • 64 mins
Doc Talk heads to San Francisco for SFFILM's Doc Stories festival, where we speak with SFFILM Executive Director Anne Lai and Director of Programming Jessie Fairbanks. We also visit with young filmmaker Tasha Van Zandt whose documentary A Life Illuminated closed the Doc Stories festival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival's Ken Jacobson And 'Natchez' Filmmakers

October 21, 2025 • 50 mins
We report from the 34th Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in Arkansas, the longest running nonfiction cinema festival in North America. Festival Executive Director Ken Jacobson joins us to talk about highlights from this year and the festival's Filmmaker Forum, which confronted a crisis in documentary filmmaking after the defunding of a key entity that supports PBS. And we talk with Natchez director Suzannah Herbert and produce...
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Young Directors Of 'Remaining Native' And 'Under The Flags, The Sun'

October 14, 2025 • 45 mins
We visit with a couple of emerging filmmakers -- Paige Bethmann, director of Remaining Native, and Juanjo Pereira, director of Under the Flags, the Sun. Bethmann's film centers on a teenage Indigenous athlete, Ku Stevens, who dreams of running track for the University of Oregon, a goal that would take him away from the Nevada reservation where he grew up. Pereira's film reframes archive footage to explore the military dictatorship ...
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New Documentaries On Conflict Photojournalism

October 7, 2025 • 63 mins
Two new Oscar-contending documentaries explore the peril of conflict photojournalism: Love+War, directed by Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, and Armed Only with a Camera, directed by Craig Renaud. Love+Warfocuses on Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Lynsey Addario who has captured unforgettable images from Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan and other war zones, while trying to balance her work life with raising two kids with her husband. ...
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Filmmaker Raoul Peck Plus Leaders Of Camden International Film Festival

September 30, 2025 • 65 mins
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Raoul Peck discusses his new film Orwell: 2+2=5, about 1984 author George Orwell. We caught up with him at the Camden International Film Festival, one of the most important events on the calendar for the documentary community. At Camden, we also visited with the leaders of the Points North Insitute which puts on the festival: Executive Director Elise McCave and Artistic Director Sean Flynn. They share thei...
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'Megadoc' Director Mike Figgis

September 23, 2025 • 57 mins
Director Mike Figgis made the most of his opportunity to follow Francis Ford Coppola as the octogenarian filmmaker poured heart and soul, not to mention tens of millions of dollars, into making his 2024 narrative feature, Megalopolis. Figgis tells us what he observed behind the scenes as Coppola attempted to bring his cinematic vision to life, beset by creative issues that led to firings and resignations, and conflict with one of h...
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'The Yogurt Shop Murders' Director Margaret Brown

September 16, 2025 • 47 mins
Doc Talk ventures into the disturbing territory of The Yogurt Shop Murders with director and executive producer Margaret Brown, her first foray into the true crime genre. The HBO series examines the shocking execution-style slaying of four teenage girls in 1991 in an Austin, Texas frozen yogurt store, a shocking crime that remains unsolved. Brown tells us about the impact of the documentary on friends and family of the young victim...
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'Riefenstahl' Director Andres Veiel

September 9, 2025 • 47 mins
German director Andres Veiel joins us to discuss his expected Oscar-contending documentary Riefenstahl, about Leni Riefenstahl who was known as Hitler's favorite filmmaker. After World War II  Riefenstahl tried to play down her role in furthering Nazi ideology through her 1930s films including Triumph of the Will and Olympia, claiming she was just an artist who had taken on assignments from Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Jo...
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