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August 18, 2024 90 mins
My guest this week is the multi award winning director Kathryn Ferguson. After a decade of focusing on short-form work centered on identity, gender politics and community, Kathryn first feature documentary NOTHING COMPARES about the iconic musician Sinéad O’Connor premiered at Sundance in 2022.

The film screened globally and went on to win multiple awards including Best Feature Documentary and Best Debut Director at the BIFA’s, as well as clocking up not one but two Emmy nominations.  
Later that same year, Kathryn was also awarded the BFI & Chanel award for Creative Audacity for a first-time feature director.  

Kathryn and I discuss her journey into the documentary world, navigating the leap from commercial work to long form docs, as well as the kind of films she hopes to make in the future.
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