To celebrate the first season of The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories podcast, here are some of our highlights from our conversations with some of the biggest names in modern documentary filmmaking. Hear from the filmmakers behind many of this year’s most lauded and talked about documentaries as they reveal which non-fiction films mean the most to them.

Head to our feed to hear the full interviews, our guests include:

Kirsten Johnson | Director of Dick Johnson is Dead and Cameraperson

Catherine Bray | Writer, director, producer & commissioner

Tamara Kotevska | Co-director of Honeyland

Simon Chinn | Producer of Whitney, Man on Wire, Searching for Sugar Man

Kate Blewett and Brian Woods | Co-directors of The Dying Rooms

Poppy Dixon | Producer of Untouchable, The Imposter & American Animals

Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk | Co-directors of Athlete A

Nicole Newnham & Jim LeBrecht | Co-directors of Crip Camp

Asif Kapadia | Director of Amy, Diego Maradona and Senna

The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast is a Little Dot Studios production in partnership with The Grierson Trust.

Hosted by June Jennings

Produced by Nicole Davis and Annie Hughes

Executive produced by Paul Woolf

Music by Dusty Decks

Edited by Content is Queen

Artwork by Nash Kasic

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, June is joined by Kirsten Johnson, a long-time cinematographer and documentary filmmaker who received widespread critical acclaim for her two most recent movies as director Cameraperson (2016) and Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020). Through the lens of three films that consider what it means to document life, death and the world around us, Kirsten discusses a range of topics from the intensely political to the intensely personal. 

Welcome to The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast, where your favourite non-fiction filmmakers reveal the documentaries that have had a lasting impact on their lives and careers. 

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SHOW NOTES

Man With A Movie Camera (1929, Dziga Vertov) Watch on Docsville in the UK & MUBI in the US

This Is Not a Film (2011, Jafar Panahi) Rent via Prime Video in the UK & Watch on Kanopy in the US

No Home Movie (2015, Chantal Akerman) Rent via BFI Player in the UK & Watch on MUBI in the US

Cameraperson (2016, Kirsten Johnson) Rent via Prime Video, Google Play & iTunes in the UK & Watch on The Criterion Channel in the US

Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020, Kirsten Johnson) Watch on Netflix

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The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast is a Little Dot Studios production in partnership with The Grierson Trust.

Hosted by June Jennings

Produced by Nicole Davis and Annie Hughes

Executive produced by Paul Woolf

Music by Dusty Decks

Edited by Content is Queen

Artwork by Nash Kasic

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode of The Doc Exchange, June Jennings is joined by Catherine Bray, a commissioner, producer and writer-director, whose most recent credits include two hour-long essays films for BBC Arts: Meet the Family and Guilt-Free Pleasures. Together they interrogate the theme of performance, constructed reality and fabrication and how this can alter our sense of what ‘counts’ as documentary.

Welcome to The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast, where your favourite non-fiction filmmakers reveal the documentaries that have had a lasting impact on their lives and careers. 

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SHOW NOTES

Fraud (2016, Dean Fleischer-Camp) // Watch on Kanopy in the US 

Under the Sun (2016, Vitaly Mansky) // Watch on Ovid in the US

Casting JonBenet (2017, Kitty Green) // Watch on Netflix 

How To with John Wilson (2020, John Wilson) // Watch on HBO Max 

Guilt-Free Pleasures (2020, Catherine Bray) // Watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK

Meet the Family (2020, Catherine Bray) // Watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK

Fish Story (2017, Charlie Shackleton) // Watch on Vimeo

Lasting Marks (2018, Charlie Shackleton) // Watch on Vimeo

Beyond Clueless (2014, Charlie Shackleton) // Watch on Vimeo

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The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast is a Little Dot Studios production in partnership with The Grierson Trust.

Hosted by June Jennings

Produced by Nicole Davis and Annie Hughes

Executive produced by Paul Woolf

Music by Dusty Decks

Edited by Content is Queen

Artwork by Nash Kasic

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.