DOK Industry Podcast

In this episode, host Toni Achebe Bell reunites with former producer Ranell Shubert, now Executive Director of the Disability Media Alliance (DMA), to discuss power, possibility, and breaking barrier…

In this conversation, we explore how cultural work can exist in a time of industry crisis and political upheaval. We begin by defining—and redefining—the labour of care, considering how it can be mob…

In this What’s Up With Docs episode, Toni Bell speaks with the filmmaking team behind Searching for Nora: Claudia Chavez and Christine Mladic Janney. Searching for Nora celebrates the life and artis…

The arts are an integral part of national identity, but little film funding exists in most parts of Africa. Docubox, East Africa's first independent film fund started by filmmakers for filmmakers in …

Open your ears to the space! In recent years, the production and distribution of spatial audio have accelerated, prompting an exploration of its role in our latest episode of the DOK Exchange XR podc…

In this two-part conversation, American Documentary Executive Director and Executive Producer of POV and America ReFramed, Erika Dilday, sits down with four storytellers to discuss the power of creat…

In today's documentary* landscape, issues of race, gender, and other under-represented groups are rightly under scrutiny, yet ‘neoliberalism’ remains largely unexamined in documentary production. Als…

In this 2-part episode, we talk about two documentary projects from India – the documentary s…

In this 2-part episode, we talk about two documentary projects from India – the documentary s…

This conversation is a celebration. It’s also a follow up on a 2020 DOK Leipzig podcast collaboration called Who is Missing from the Coming-of-Age Narrative (Season 1).

Shakira Refos, host of this e…

In this conversation, we’ll start with the Danish editor Niels Pagh Andersen, with a historical perspective and overview, of how some specific aesthetics and narrations have been dominant in document…

Join us for this conversation on the AI-driven creative revolution. Following one of the main themes of DOK Exchange XR Programme: AI and its impact on the art of storytelling – we delve into a conve…

Join us for this conversation and deep dive into the richness of animated documentary, the ways it can open up subjects, connect audiences to meaningful stories with empathy and imagination, and inno…

Filmmaker, activist and co-founder of Re-Present Media Jennifer Crystal Chien joins host Toni Bell in examining the need to generate new and more authentic representations and port…

The usual documentary filmmaking is no longer applicable in Hong Kong since the new national security law. Filmmakers who still believe in the power of documentary need to be creative to overcome all…

In this conversation, host Aisha Jamal and her guests Sameer Farooq and Marley McDonald talk about how documentary filmmakers are using the medium of film in unique ways to investigate and lay bare t…

This special episode of the audio series Kinesthesia presents a discussion between film curators operating across continents about the unique cultural practices that they bring to their work. The dis…

The nonprofit model needs a rehaul. In this podcast, we discuss how this outdated model harms the practice of independent documentary storytelling and the people who tell these stories. We talk about…

Filmmaker and archivist Jihan El-Tahri and creator, host of The What’s Up with Docs podcast, and archival researcher Toni Bell chat once more one year into Jihan’s multi-disciplinary project, “People…

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion are the buzzwords that litter program initiatives in the entertainment industry as of late. Still, platitudes ring hollow and action is needed. Today’s podcast will disc…