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Director Nick Bruckman and Producer Amanda Roddy talk about their upcoming film, Not Going Quietly. The film follows activist Ady Barkan as he travels the country fighting for healthcare reform. Over the course of the film, Ady's health deteriorates due to ALS, a deadly disease he was diagnosed with in 2016. Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, and Bradley Whitford serve as executive producers, and a clip of the film screened at the DNC.
When they're not working on Not Going Quietly, Nick and Amanda make videos and digital campaigns for companies and non-profits at People's Television.
In this episode, Nick, Amanda, and Jennie discuss commercial work vs. doc filmmaking, how they were able to capture such private moments related to Ady's declining health, and getting the Duplass brothers on board as executive producers.
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What kinds of stories are best told in virtual reality? Why is VR so effective, and how can emerging filmmakers get started with VR?
Gary Yost and Adam Loften lead The WisdomVR Project, a library of VR documentaries and experiences. One of their latest projects, Inside COVID-19, was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2021.
Adam Loften is a documentary filmmaker producing award-winning 360/VR films and multimedia stories that highlight pressing social and environmental issues. His projects have screened at film festivals around the world and have been featured on PBS, National Geographic, Emergence Magazine, The Atlantic and the New York Times.
Gary Yost led the team that invented Autodesk 3ds Max, the world’s most popular 3D visual effects production system, and is an award-winning filmmaker with unique expertise in the combined fields of computer imaging, filmmaking and immersive storytelling. He founded the WisdomVR Project in 2018 with Ram Dass as the inaugural subject and is the president of the board of directors.
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In this episode, we sit down with director, producer, and cinematographer Rita Baghdadi, who's latest film Sirens premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest.
Rita talks about how she transitioned from competitive horse jumping to documentary filmmaking, her process in making the film Sirens, how she was able to bring Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne on as Executive Producers, her collaboration with the composer Para One, how she was able to juggle verité shooting and directing, and more.
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Wonbo Woo is Wired Magazine’s Executive Producer of Video. In just over a year, Wonbo tripled Wired’s subscribers on YouTube; the channel has 5.4 million at the time of this episode’s recording. Wonbo got his start in broadcast journalism, working for ABC’s Nightline, then NBC’s Nightly News. He’s based in New York.

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Erin Lee Carr is a New York-based director, producer and writer. Her true crime documentaries for HBO include Mommy Dead and Dearest, At the Heart of Gold, and I Love You, Now Die. Her latest work, the four-part docuseries How to Fix a Drug Scandal, premiered on Netflix on April 1, 2020.

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Eric Arthur Fernandez is a producer and cinematographer that specializes in documentary filmmaking about contemporary social-issues and current affairs. His work has appeared in the New York Times, PBS, VICE News, and The Guardian, and he regularly works as a documentary cinematographer at places like National Geographic, VICE News Tonight on HBO, PBS Newshour, Al Jazeera, the BBC, as well as for various streaming outlets. When he's not working, he likes surfing, climbing, watching Seinfeld, reading, and hanging out with his cat Ingie.

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Ben C. Solomon is a documentary filmmaker, photographer and journalist. He is the inaugural Filmmaker-in-residence at Frontline on PBS. Prior to Frontline, Ben spent 9 years as a foreign multimedia correspondent for the New York Times, and was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the Ebola Crisis in West Africa.

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Elise Coker is a documentary filmmaker, video journalist, and artist based in New York City. She has created work for media outlets including VICE, NBC News, Topic, Al Jazeera, National Geographic, and PBS, and is currently working on documentary projects in Taiwan and in the Arctic.

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Elettra Fiumi is a Florentine-American director, producer and editor based in Lugano, Switzerland. She heads Fiumi Studios and has worked on documentaries for Netflix, Tribeca Studios, The New Yorker, Whatsapp, Airbnb and others. She founded and heads VCItalia, the Video Consortium's Italian chapter in Milan, Italy.

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