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

'Tucci In Italy' Host Stanley Tucci

May 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Stanley Tucci joins us to discuss his new National Geographic documentary series Tucci in Italy, which finds the acclaimed actor exploring the country's immensely rich culinary traditions, from trippa to lardo, hay soup and barbecued mutton.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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'Sly Lives!' Director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson

May 6, 2025 • 52 mins
Oscar-winning director Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson explores the brilliance of Sly Stone in Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius), his Emmy-contending documentary feature. The Summer of Soul filmmaker joins us to talk about Sly's incredible contributions to music, and the mystery behind the one-time superstar's career and personal implosion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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'David Frost Vs' Executive Producer Wilfred Frost

April 29, 2025 • 46 mins
MSNBC is airing the six-part documentary series David Frost Vs, built around some of the most extraordinary interviews conducted over a 50-year period by David Frost, the legendary British journalist and entertainer. We speak with executive producer Wilfred Frost, one of David's sons, about his dad's tête-à-têtes with Richard Nixon, Elton John, Muhammad Ali, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...
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'Art For Everybody' Director Miranda Yousef

April 22, 2025 • 52 mins
Filmmaker Miranda Yousef joins us to discuss her documentary Art for Everybody, which enjoys a 100 percent critics approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It's the story of self-styled "Painter of Light" Thomas Kincade, who made a mint selling kitschy scenes of cozy cottages. Kinkade marketed himself as a devout Christian, but as the film reveals, beneath all that light lurked a dark side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...
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Alex Gibney's 'The Dark Money Game'

April 15, 2025 • 46 mins
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney joins us to discuss his new HBO documentary double feature The Dark Money Game, an investigation in two films of the pernicious influence of untraceable money in our politics. The first film, Ohio Confidential, uncovers a massive dark money scandal in the Buckeye State, while the second film, Wealth of the Wicked, digs up the roots of dark money going back to the 1970s. Learn more about your ad c...
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'We Want The Funk!' Directors

April 8, 2025 • 40 mins
Filmmakers Stanley Nelson and Nicole London explore We Want the Funk!, a joyous documentary about a genre of music that compels people to dance from beat one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov And CPH:DOX Artistic Director Niklas Engstrøm

April 1, 2025 • 62 mins
Doc Talk heads to CPH:DOX in Copenhagen, where we speak with Oscar-winning Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov, winner of the festival's F:ACT Award for his new documentary 2000 Meters to Andriivka. We also visit with CPH:DOX artistic director Niklas Engstrøm, who talks about Europe's alarm over Pres. Trump "trying to change the world order." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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'AUM: The Cult At The End Of The World' Filmmakers

March 25, 2025 • 44 mins
Filmmakers Ben Braun and Chiaki Yanagimoto discuss their documentary AUM: The Cult at the End of the World, an exploration of the Japanese religious movement and doomsday cult responsible for a fatal terror attack on the Toyko subway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival

March 18, 2025 • 59 mins
We speak with Yorgos Krassakopoulos, head of program for the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece, about the 27th edition of the highly respected cinematic event. And we talk with one of the filmmakers invited to share his film at TiDF — Mark Andrew Altschul, director of All American, a documentary about high school girl wrestlers. Plus, Doc Talk hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey discuss what's going on in Miami...
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Ezra Edelman's Axed Prince Doc Plus Filmmakers Of 'WTO/99'

March 11, 2025 • 47 mins
Director Ezra Edelman is speaking out about Netflix's decision to abandon his Prince documentary series in favor of a version more to the liking of the musician's estate. We discuss Edelman's critique of the current state of celebrity documentaries, plus we talk with the makers of WTO/99, the new documentary about the giant protests against the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
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Oscar Reaction Plus True/False Artistic Director Chloé Trayner

March 4, 2025 • 49 mins
Hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the Oscars, which saw No Other Land win Best Documentary Feature and The Only Girl in the Orchestra win Best Documentary Short. And we talk with Chloé Trayner, artistic director of the just wrapped 22nd edition of True/False. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Slamdance

February 25, 2025 • 46 mins
As Slamdance relocates from its longtime home in Park City, Utah to Los Angeles, we talk with president and co-founder Peter Baxter about the festival's documentary lineup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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'Porcelain War' Directors Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev

February 17, 2025 • 52 mins
We speak with the directors of the Oscar-nominated documentary feature Porcelain War, Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev. Their film, telling a story of art and war in Ukraine, just won the DGA Award, a year after debuting at Sundance where it claimed the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oscar-Nominated Filmmakers Smriti Mundhra And Molly O'Brien

February 11, 2025 • 57 mins
I Am Ready, Warden director Smriti Mundhra and The Only Girl in the Orchestra director Molly O'Brien join us to talk about their Oscar-nominated short documentaries. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sundance Filmmakers Cristina Costantini And Violet Du Feng

February 4, 2025 • 48 mins
We talk with two filmmakers who just premiered feature documentaries at Sundance — Cristina Costantini, director of Sally, about late astronaut Sally Ride, and Violet Du Feng, director of The Dating Game, an examination of how Chinese men, who vastly outnumber women, try to find mates in the China of today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oscar Nominations Reaction & Sundance Doc 'The Perfect Neighbor'

January 28, 2025 • 53 mins
Doc Talk unpacks the nominees for Best Documentary Feature at the Academy Awards. And co-host John Ridley speaks with director Geeta Gandbhir and executive producer Soledad O'Brien about the stunning documentary The Perfect Neighbor, which just premiered at Sundance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Sundance Doc Programmers Basil Tsiokos And Sudeep Sharma

January 21, 2025 • 46 mins
Documentary programmers Basil Tsiokos and Sudeep Sharma join us to discuss the nonfiction lineup for the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. The slate includes new work from Oscar winners Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, Mstyslav Chernov, and Davis Guggenheim, plus films on book banning, the first openly trans attorney to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court, the late astronaut Sally Ride, and a documentary series on late "Pee-wee Herman...
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Doc Community Responds To L.A. Wildfires

January 14, 2025 • 53 mins
The documentary community is reckoning with enormous loss from the Los Angeles wildfires, which has directly impacted many filmmakers. We are joined by Tracy Droz Tragos, who lost her home in the Pacific Palisades fire; Smriti Mundhra, who evacuated her home in Malibu Canyon; L.A. resident Lucy Walker who documented California wildfires in Bring Your Own Brigade, and L.A.-based writer and editor Tom White, former longtime chief of ...
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Report From IDFA - World's Biggest Doc Festival

January 7, 2025 • 53 mins
We talk with Orwa Nyrabia, IDFA's artistic director, and visit with filmmakers premiering new work at the world's biggest documentary festival. Plus, filmmakers Carla Gutiérrez and Irene Taylor share their Amsterdam experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Oscar Shortlist Reaction

December 20, 2024 • 36 mins
Doc Talk co-hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey react to the announcement of the shortlists in the documentary categories for the 97th Academy Awards. What were the snubs and major surprises? We unpack the 15 features and 15 shorts remaining in contention for the Oscar.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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