Docs in Orbit
102 episodes - English - Latest episode: 30 days ago -Docs in Orbit is an artist-led podcast for independent, non-fiction filmmakers. Since launching in April 2020, we have produced over 50 episodes that explore the diverse artistic approaches present in contemporary non-fiction cinema, the challenges filmmakers face as they work with the moving image, and modern approaches to film curation. Docs in Orbit is a top ranking TV & Film Interview podcast in over 30 countries. All episodes are free across several platforms (Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google, Soundcloud).
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Episode 74: The Soldier’s Lagoon with Pablo Álvarez-Mesa
March 29, 2024 18:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBHi everyone, Aylin Gökmen here, with a new episode featuring a conversation with Pablo Álvarez-Mesa about his film, The Soldier’s Lagoon (2024), which received the Docs in Orbit Invitation Award at Cannes Doc-Marché du Film last year. The Soldier’s Lagoon is a strikingly beautiful and multi-layered piece centered on the Colombian páramo region. The film explores the land’s history, encompassing Bolívar's political legacy, colonialism, and the presence of armed groups, shedding light on how...
Play Dead! with Matthew Lancit
March 06, 2024 16:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBHello everyone. This is Hosein Jalilvand in Geneva with a new episode for Docs in Orbit featuring a conversation with Matthew Lancit about his latest film, Play Dead! (2023). Play Dead! is a funny, tender video diary on living with diabetes, where Lancit playfully transforms his personal experience and fear of dying into a body horror film, where an invisible disease crawls inside his body. The film premiered in the Camera Lucida sidebar of Dok Leipzig in October 2023 and available to s...
IDFA 2023 - Corresponding Cinemas' Refusal to Comply
December 07, 2023 18:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBWe are releasing a conversation recorded on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023, at IDFA, where I met with Julian Ross and Farah Hasanbegović to recap Corresponding Cinemas. Corresponding Cinemas was a new series at IDFA this year, and in many ways, it was an experiment to see what invisible connections surface when an institution decides to transfer over its curatorial control to filmmakers. The idea is simple and compelling. It would be a series of films and conversations with filmmakers who ...
IDFA 2023 with Orwa Nyrabia
November 08, 2023 04:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBToday is the first day of the 36th edition of IDFA, the world's largest documentary film festival - a twelve-day event in Amsterdam featuring more than 250 titles in 22 sections. Earlier this week, I sat with Orwa Nyrabia, the Artistic Director of the festival, to speak with him about the role, responsibility and relevancy of film festivals and how IDFA is meeting the current moment. We also discuss some of the new sections in the program, including SPECIAL SCREENINGS, SIGNED, and the h...
Self Portait Along the Borderline with Anna Dziapshipa
October 29, 2023 23:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBAn abandoned house opens the door to revisit the past by bringing to life a unique, nearly destroyed image archive from the unrecognized territory on the border of the Black Sea: Abkhazia. A place normally inaccessible for Georgians because of the ethnic conflict that happened between Georgia and Abkhazia back in 1993. Combining voice, archive, and recent footage, the film examines a lost and split identity stuck between the margins. The audio-visual fragments of this archive are intricately...
Dok Leipzig - Festival Recap
October 23, 2023 16:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBIt's been a few days since Dok Leipzig wrapped up, but we are still reminiscing about the films we encountered and the people we met. So, we made a little souvenir of our time there, featuring a collection of voice memos from a cross-section of festival attendees sharing their favorite film discoveries from this year's event. FEATURING: Juliette Menthonnex, director of Tale of the Three Flames, speaks about Man In Black by Bing Wang Eka Tsotsoria, editor of Self-Portrait Along the Border...
NYFF61 Currents with Aily Nash, Rachael Rakes, and Tyler Wilson
October 17, 2023 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBTwenty-six years ago, for the 35th New York Film Festival, curators Gavin Smith and Mark McElhatten introduced the festival's experimental sidebar, Views from the Avant-Garde. While their inaugural program featured names like Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, and Nathaniel Dorsky, it also opened a space where voices experimenting with cinema's language might meet new audiences. In the festival's intervening years, the vocabulary around this type of cinema evolved and Views from the Avant-...
DOK Leipzig and Animation Film
October 08, 2023 12:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBAs we prepared for the festival, we had the pleasure of sitting down with Franka Sachse, a director and animator who is also the curator for the Animation Night at DOK Leipzig. Aylin Gökmen moderates the conversation. The Animation Night is scheduled for Friday, October 13th, featuring Tess Martin showcasing several of her short films that provide a fascinating insight into the artist's creative journey. The event will be divided into two parts: the first part will focus on her accomplish...
Locarno 2023 Festival Recap
August 24, 2023 14:00 - 22 minutes - 15.4 MBThe 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland has come to a close, but we are still thinking about many of the films we encountered there. For our recap, we invited a cross-section of attendees to share their favorite film discoveries. Included in this episode are films from nearly every section of the festival - the Concorso Internazionale (International Competition), the Concorso Cineasti del presente section (Filmmakers of the Present), the Pardi di domani (Leopards of To...
20th Anniversary Golden Apricot International Film Festival Recap - Voice Memos
July 19, 2023 19:00 - 17 minutes - 12.1 MBThis year was a special year for the Golden Apricot International Film Festival in Yerevan. It celebrated its 20th anniversary and also the 100-year anniversary of Armenian cinema. To recap the event, we invited filmmakers, film critics, and other guests to share their impressions about a favorite film they encountered at the festival. We hope you enjoy listening to this mosaic of impressions from a cross-section of participants! Jude Chehab, Director of Q , speaks about Silent House by F...
20th Anniversary of the Golden Apricot International Film Festival with Karen Avetisyan
July 11, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBA conversation with Karen Avetisyan, the Artistic Director and CEO of the Golden Apricot Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia, which took place from the 9 - 16th of July. This year it marked a double milestone for the festival, celebrating both its 20th anniversary as well as the 100th anniversary of Armenian Cinema. Eka Tsotsoria traveled to Yerevan for the occasion, and before making her way there, she sat with Karen to learn more about the programming. In this conversation, Karen shares...
Cinema and the Pleasures of the Impossible with Kirsten Johnson and Guetty Felin (Cannes Docs - Doc Day 2023)
June 20, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MBDirector & DOP Kirsten Johnson, President of the 2023 Œil d’or Jury, and writer, director, and producer Guetty Felin in conversation about the many ways filmmaking creates possibilities to search for the invisible, to bring life to the dead and to time travel in our own lives. This discussion was organized by Cannes Docs - Marché du Film with the support of Doc Alliance, Participant, LaScam in association with L'oeul d'or, Année du Documentaire, DAE, CNC, & ACID. Distributed by Docs in Or...
Intersections of the Personal and Political in Documentary Filmmaking with Zeynep Güzel, Mina Keshavarz and Sahra Mani (Cannes Docs - Doc Day 2023)
June 20, 2023 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MBAn impenetrable Field of Optimism: Intersections of the Personal and Political in Documentary Filmmaking - Filmmakers Zeynep Güzel, Mina Keshavarz and Sahra Mani (Bread and Roses, Special Screenings, Festival de Cannes 2023), will come together to discuss their work, dreams, aspirations, and hopes for the future, both professional and personal. This discussion was organized by Cannes Docs - Marché du Film with the support of Doc Alliance, Participant, LaScam in association with L'oeil d'or,...
Moving beyond Empathy and Equity in Global Stories with Mehret Mandefro (Cannes Docs - Doc Day 2023)
June 20, 2023 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBMoving beyond Empathy and Equity in Global Stories - A panel discussion presented at this year's Cannes Docs - Doc Day with producer, writer, and director Mehret Mandefro. Mehret Mandefro is an Emmy-nominated producer, writer, entrepreneur, physician and thought leader who champions the creative arts as a path to developing a more just society. Her track record in both using narrative to shift culture and scaling media businesses secured her a spot on Variety’s list of most impactful women...
The Market Value of Creative Documentaries (Cannes Docs Panel - Curated by DAE)
May 30, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBPanel discussion presented at Cannes Docs 2023 at the Marché du Film, Festival de Cannes and curated in partnership with the DAE - Documentary Association of Europe The documentary industry, like the rest of the audiovisual chain, has been in a radical period of transformation in the last 10 years. We hear more and more often about content and format, rather than film and language. Where is the place for the creative documentary in this value chain? This panel discussion explores this topi...
Cannes Docs Doc Talk The Market Value of Creative Documentaries - Curated by DAE
May 30, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBPanel discussion presented at Cannes Docs 2023 at the Marché du Film, Festival de Cannes and curated in partnership with the DAE - Documentary Association of Europe The documentary industry, like the rest of the audiovisual chain, has been in a radical period of transformation in the last 10 years. We hear more and more often about content and format, rather than film and language. Where is the place for the creative documentary in this value chain? This panel discussion explores this topi...
Cannes Docs Doc Talk: Unpacking Sovereignty and Curatorial Justice (Curated by DAE)
May 26, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBPanel discussion presented at Cannes Docs 2023 at the Marché du Film, Festival de Cannes on May 20, 2023 and curated in partnership with the DAE - Documentary Association of Europe Parts of the independent film industry are currently engaged in a crucial discussion about the need for more equitable and accountable curation in film programming and selection processes. More and more filmmakers and industry stakeholders alike are openly questioning the traditional power structures that have h...
Unpacking Sovereignty and Curatorial Justice (Cannes Docs Panel - Curated by DAE)
May 26, 2023 14:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBPanel discussion presented at Cannes Docs 2023 at the Marché du Film, Festival de Cannes on May 20, 2023 and curated in partnership with the DAE - Documentary Association of Europe Parts of the independent film industry are currently engaged in a crucial discussion about the need for more equitable and accountable curation in film programming and selection processes. More and more filmmakers and industry stakeholders alike are openly questioning the traditional power structures that have h...
Cannes Docs 2023 with Pierre-Alexis Chevit & Babette Dieu
May 16, 2023 23:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBTo kick off our collaboration with Cannes Docs this year, we sat with Pierre-Alexis Chevit, the head of Cannes Docs, and Babette Dieu, the coordinator for the event, to hear about this year’s thoughtfully designed program. They also share their personal experiences that shaped their interest in documentaries and the importance of creating physical and symbolic spaces in the industry for the independent filmmaking community to feel supported. Each year, during the Marché du Film at the Cann...
Visions du Réel 2023 - Festival Recap
May 02, 2023 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBThe festival may have come to a close, but many of the films have continued to stir something inside us. This episode features a collection of voice memos gathered from a cross-section of attendees at Visions du Réel, sharing their responses to a film they encountered at the festival. ----- FEATURING: Nicole Chi, Director of Guián, about This Woman by Alan Zhang Ghada Fikri, Director of How Are You, Baba? about Locus Cordis by Alhasan Yousef Alhasan Yousef, Director of Locus Cordis, ab...
Visions du Réel 2023 with Emilie Bujès
April 20, 2023 10:00 - 26 minutes - 18.4 MB[April 20, 2023] Docs in Orbit Podcast - Episode #55 - Visions du Réel 2023 with Emilie Bujès (moderated by Christina Zachariades) In preparation for the 54th Edition of Visions du Réel, we sat (virtually) with Emilie Bujès, the festival's artistic director, to hear about how this year’s program came together. Visions du Réel has a strong reputation for championing creative, contemporary non-fiction cinema and has played a vital role for independent documentary filmmakers for decades. The...
MoMI First Look Festival with Eric Hynes
March 09, 2023 10:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode, we turn our attention to First Look, an annual showcase of new and innovative international cinema at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. This year’s event will mark the 12th edition of the festival, which will take place March 15 - 19th. Over the course of those five days, more than 30 works from all over the world will be exhibited for the first time in New York at the museum - this includes features, short films, fiction, and non-fiction, as well as forms that f...
Paradise with Alexander Abaturov
March 08, 2023 12:00 - 30 minutes - 20.8 MBFeaturing a conversation with Alexander Abaturov about his film Paradise (2022), which premiered at IDFA in the International Competition section. The film is set in the small village of Shologon in Northern Siberia, documenting the local inhabitants battling severe and extreme wildfires during the summer months. Alexander Abaturov is a filmmaker based in Paris. He was born in Siberia. Paradise (2022) is his second feature documentary film. His first film, The Son (2018), premiered at the ...
Notes from Eremocene with Viera Čákanyová
February 28, 2023 16:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBNotes from Eremocene (Berlinale Forum, 2023) by Viera Čákanyová is an experimental documentary that delves into the future possibilities of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence. Through a captivating blend of analog footage and 3D scanner images, Čákanyová captures the clash between traditional and digital elements of contemporary society. This is her third feature, concluding a trilogy that began with her debut work, FREM (2019), followed by the documentary White on White (202...
Berlinale Forum with Cristina Nord
February 14, 2023 11:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBWe are joined by Cristina Nord, the Artistic Director of the Berlinale Forum, an independently curated section of the Berlinale with a focus on diverse cinematic forms and narrative approaches. I invited Cristina to speak about the rich history of the Forum and what has shaped her curatorial eye. We also discuss some of the non-fiction films included in this years collection, which will be the 53rd edition of the program. Moderated by Christina Zachariades For show notes, visit docsinorbi...
Hello, Season 4!
February 13, 2023 23:00 - 3 minutes - 2.22 MBAs we put the final touches on our first batch of episodes, we wanted to just pop on to say hi, we appreciate you tuning in, and we are excited to discover new films together! - Christina Zachariades For show notes, visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit
Rewind and Play with Alain Gomis
November 15, 2022 13:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBNnenna Onuoha speaks with Alain Gomis about his latest film REWIND & PLAY (2022), which she encountered last month at the New York Film Festival. REWIND & PLAY follows American jazz pianist Thelonius Monk on a 1969 trip to Paris. Monk is in town to perform at the Salle Pleyel, and along the way becomes the subject of a French television program. Rewind & Play unfolds exclusively from the recovered rushes of this recording. And from this single event the film unravels complex subjects inclu...
IDFA 2022 with Orwa Nyrabia
November 14, 2022 17:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBLast week brought the close of the 35th edition of IDFA and this year’s edition felt monumental. Not only for the sheer number of films on display (277) but also for the necessary and thought provoking panel discussions that were platformed - including an examination of the growing prosecution and incarceration of filmmakers around the world, the emergence of co-creation as a practice grounded in equity and justice, and a bold, critical examination of the power dynamics inherent in film fest...
IDFA 2022: Curated Watch List with Wouter Jansen of Square Eyes
November 07, 2022 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBWith such an overwhelming number of films on offer at IDFA, we invited Wouter Jansen to help curate a watch list of films that will be on display. Wouter is the founder of Square Eyes, a sales and distribution company based in Vienna specializing in bold, author driven features and shorts. This year, he will be at IDFA with two titles, ANHEIL 69 by Theo Montoya and EUROPE by Philip Scheffner. In this episode, we go through each section of the program at IDFA and take turns selecting titles ...
It Is Night in America with Ana Vaz
September 16, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.5 MBIt is night in America. A young anteater is found dead by the side of a road in Brasilia, a boa constrictor wanders into the suburbs, and a maned wolf is found on a farm. The question is: are animals invading our cities, or rather are we occupying their habitat? IT IS NIGHT IN AMERICA (2022) by Ana Vaz is a spellbinding film that comes to the Camden International Film Festival wielding a strong energetic power that, no doubt, will transfix spectators and provoke reflection on the visible an...
Camden International Film Festival: Program Review with Milton Guillén
September 12, 2022 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MBFall is upon us, and what better way to begin this new season than in the cozy atmosphere at the Camden International Film Festival in mid-coast Maine - a major documentary event in the United States. In anticipation for this year's festival, I caught up with Milton Guillén, Senior Programmer at CIFF to provide texture around this year's stellar line-up and how the program came together. We also discuss some of the talks and panels that will be on offer. The festival will take place from ...
Sarajevo Film Festival, Documentary Competition with Rada Šešić
August 11, 2022 19:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBOur first episode of a series covering the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival. We are joined by Rada Šešić, who leads the selection of films in the Documentary Competition. Rada SESIC (Croatia) is a critic, film maker, lecturer and a programmer. She is specialized in South Asian and Eastern European cinema. She also organizes the DocuRough Cut Boutique which we discuss in our conversation as well as the origins of the Sarajevo Film Festival which is rooted in cultural protest during the Siege of ...
Locarno Programming with Stefan Ivančić
August 02, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MBThis year, the Locarno Film Festival is celebrating its 75th anniversary from August 3 - 13th in the beautiful Swiss Canton of Ticino. It’s a festival that is known for supporting independent, arthouse and avant-garde cinema, often showcasing darling films that break and blur the boundaries between cinematic genres. That is why I’ve always enjoyed and admired their program. It has introduced me to many directors and works throughout the years that have moved me and influenced my creative ...
Foragers with Jumana Manna
July 12, 2022 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode, we are pleased to share a special conversation with Jumana Manna about her recent film, FORAGERS, which we discovered at Vision Du Reel this past April. Jumana is a Berlin based visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Her new film, Foragers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel. Sh...
All That Breathes with Shaunak Sen
May 17, 2022 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBThe day after his World Premiere at Sundance, we sat with Shaunak Sen, the director of ALL THAT BREATHES to discuss the many resonances of his work. In this heart felt conversation Sen shares with us his creative process in making this film and the ecological philosophies underpinning ALL THAT BREATHES. Moderated by Christina Zachariades, Docs in Orbit For show notes, visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit
Geographies of Solitude with Jacquelyn Mills
May 08, 2022 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBGeographies of Solitude with Jacquelyn Mills moderated by Sean Van Wert in Toronto. Featuring a conversation with Jacquelyn Mills about her most recent film GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE. In GEOGRAPHIES OF SOLITUDE, Mills offers us an immersion into the rich ecosystem of Sable Island and the life of Zoe Lucas, an environmentalist who has lived over 40 years on this remote, sliver of land off the coast of Canada where she spends her life collecting, cleaning, and documenting marine litter that wa...
Visions du Réel - Recap with Inge Coolsaet and Jordan Cronk
April 28, 2022 17:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBIn this episode, I am joined by two film critics whose work I adore, Inge Coolsaet and Jordan Cronk - both of whom I had the great pleasure to meet at this year's swiss festival, Visions du Réel. Inge Coolsaet is a film critic based in Brussels. She writes for several international publications, including Point of View magazine, Filmmagie, Photogenie, and Cineuropa. She is co-editor-in-chief of the new Dutch-language, Belgian-based film quarterly Fantômas. This year, Inge was invited to Vi...
Children of the Mist with Diem Ha Le
April 11, 2022 22:00 - 10 minutes - 7.45 MBIn this episode, we feature a conversation with Diem Ha Le about her debut feature film, CHILDREN OF THE MIST, which premiered at IDFA and had its Swiss premiere in the Grand Angle section of Visions du Réel. The film follows Dzi, a 12-year-old girl from the Hmong ethnic group in Northern Vietnam. During the Lunar new year, girls as young as Dzi become part of the customary practice of "bride kidnapping," where young girls are abducted by a boy who wishes to marry them and held for ransom...
Visions du Réel with Emilie Bujès
April 06, 2022 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.8 MBAn episode focused on Visions du Réel, the international documentary film festival held in April in Nyon, Switzerland. Visions du Réel has a strong reputation for championing creative, contemporary non-fiction cinema and has played a vital role for independent documentary filmmakers for decades. And it has also been a significant source of inspiration for this podcast, as we have made several film discoveries, including El Father Plays HImself, Looking For Horses, My Mexican Bretzel, and...
CPH:DOX Festival Recap with Eka Tsotsoria, Nico Centrone, and Daniel Oxenhandler
April 02, 2022 17:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBThis episode pulls focus on CPH:DOX - one of the biggest documentary film festivals in Europe today. Situated in Copenhagen, the festival began on March 23, and we just wrapped up a full week of screenings! This year, the festival is hosting many exciting in-person events in Copenhagen and online offers for both the industry and the public, with a selection of films streaming online in Denmark for the first ten days of April. Eka Tsotsoria from Tbilisi joins Nico Centrone in Italy and Dan...
Berlinale 2022 Festival Recap with Edo Choi from MoMI + Programming for First Look Festival
February 21, 2022 14:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBEdo Choi, a curator at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York and film critic extraordinaire joins the podcast to discuss several standout films we encountered at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival. Films discussed include Avec amour et acharnement / Both Sides of the Blade / Fire, Rimini, Dry Ground Burning, Europe, Rewind and Play, See You Friday Robinson, and A Little Love Package. We also spend the last 15 minutes discussing First Look which is an annual festival showcasin...
Berlinale Shorts Program Review with curator, Anna Henckel-Donnersmarck
February 09, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes - 32.5 MBGreetings from Berlin. In this episode, we are joined with Anna Henckel Donnersmarck, the curator and head of Berlinale Shorts. Berlinale Shorts is the section dedicated to daring works of the short form. This year’s line up does not disappoint, with a selection of 30 international and world premieres from new and established filmmakers like Radu Jude, Atsushi Wada, Sky Hopinka, and many more as well as new filmmakers with equally strong and aesthetically interesting perspectives. Earli...
Sundance 2022 - Festival Recap with Milton Guillén
February 03, 2022 12:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBIn this episode, we recap some of the films we encountered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival with special guest Milton Guillén - an award-winning filmmaker, faculty member at CalArts, and a programmer at the Camden International Film Festival. Films we discussed include: 4:58 FIRE OF LOVE by Sara Dosa 9:12 ALL THAT BREATHES by Shaunak Sen 15:53 WE MET IN VIRTUAL REALITY by Joe Hunting 25:38 DOS ESTACIONES by Juan Pablo Gonzalez 29:58 I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE by Reid Davenport For sh...
IDFA 2021: Program Review with Venice Atienza
November 17, 2021 17:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode, I am joined with filmmaker and dear friend, Venice Atienza ahead of her traveling to IDFA where we review the program. IDFA is one of the largest documentary film events, and their extensive programming is energizing for the international documentary film community but it’s also very overwhelming with over 260 titles and only ten days. So before boarding her flight, we went through each section of the program and co-curated a watch list to help guide our festival experie...
Camden Film Festival #2: Recap with friend and filmmaker Bronte Stahl
October 01, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.7 MBIn this episode, we recap films from the Camden International Film Festival which just wrapped up over the past weekend. I sat with a dear friend of the podcast, Bronte Stahl, a filmmaker and producer from Westerly RI who is a frequent attendee at CIFF and also part of the festival's screening committee. Bronte and I studied documentary in film school many moons ago at the European master's program, DocNomads. Since then has participated in a few fellowships and residencies including ...
A Night of Knowing Nothing with Payal Kapadia
September 22, 2021 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.7 MBFeaturing a conversation with Payal Kapadia about her remarkably brave and powerful film A NIGHT OF KNOWING NOTHING which took home awards at Cannes, TIFF, and CIFF. Here, she discusses with us her artistic approach, sources of inspiration, and the freedom she finds in documentary filmmaking. Moderated by Aylin Gökmen For show notes, visit docsinorbit.com and be sure to follow us on social media @docsinorbit
Camden Film Festival #1: Overview with Film Programmer Milton Guillén
September 15, 2021 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBThe Fall Film Festival season has begun! And to kick things off, we invited Milton Guillén, a programmer from the Camden International Film Festival, to take us through the 17th edition of the festival lineup, featuring over 70 documentary films (features and shorts). In this episode, Milton provides a peek into how the program came together and adds texture to some of the films in the different sections. This year, the festival will take place both physically (September 16 - 19th) as we...
Sarajevo Film Festival #3: Looking For Horses with Stefan Pavlović
August 31, 2021 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBFor our third episode dedicated to the 27th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, we feature a conversation with Stefan Pavlović whose film, LOOKING FOR HORSES, took home the Special Jury Prize in the documentary competition. Looking for Horses is Stefan’s first feature-length film and the result of his graduate studies at the Netherlands Film Academy in Artistic Research in and through Cinema titled, From Filming Intimacy to Filming Intimately, where he investigates how the cinema apparat...
Looking For Horses with Stefan Pavlović
August 31, 2021 21:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBFor our third episode dedicated to the 27th edition of the Sarajevo Film Festival, we feature a conversation with Stefan Pavlović whose film, LOOKING FOR HORSES, took home the Special Jury Prize in the documentary competition. Looking for Horses is Stefan’s first feature-length film and the result of his graduate studies at the Netherlands Film Academy in Artistic Research in and through Cinema titled, From Filming Intimacy to Filming Intimately, where he investigates how the cinema apparat...
Sarajevo Film Festival #2: Conversations from the Ground
August 22, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBThe festival just wrapped but our coverage continues! In this episode, Christina Zachariades is joined by Macha Tsarencov and Steve Rickinson to discuss their travels to Sarajevo, the atmosphere of the festival, and several documentary films that screened as part of the competition. Films discussed include FACTORY TO THE WORKERS by Srđan Kovačević, THE SAME DREAM by Vlad Petri, DISTURBED EARTH by Kumjana Novakova and Guillermo Carreras-Candi , RECONCILIATION by Marija Zidar, and LOOKING FO...