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Sven Pape is a documentary and narrative film editor. His YouTube channel This Guy Edits is a collection of doc and narrative editing lessons. It has amassed tens of millions of views since launching…

Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films—which center around race, injustice, and American history—have received numerous award…

The Film Festival Alliance is a community of more than 180 film festivals around the globe. It's Executive Director, Lela Meadow-Conner, and Director of Membership, Barbara Twist, come on the podcast…

Claire Gordon is the showrunner and an executive producer of "Explained" on Netflix, produced by Vox Media. Previously, she was a senior producer for two Emmy Award-winning seasons of the HBO show "L…

Joe Coscarelli is the host of NYTimes’, Diary of a Song, a video series that breaks down how pop songs get made. The series relies entirely on FaceTime interviews, cellphone footage, and in-house pro…

Rachel Mason is an artist, musician and filmmaker from Los Angeles. Her film, Circus of Books, is an intimate portrait of her parents, who owned and operated one of the largest distributors of gay po…

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, t…

Wendy Cohen is the president of Picture Motion, an agency that creates social impact marketing campaigns for films. Wendy and her team work to maximize a film's impact—whether it's changing laws, bri…

Chloe Gbai is the director of If/Then, a Tribeca Film Institute initiative that gives grants and provides mentorship to filmmakers creating short documentaries. She was previously a programmer at PBS…

Luke Lorentzen is a documentary filmmaker based in San Francisco, CA. Luke’s first feature film out of college, Midnight Family, follows a family-run ambulance business in Mexico City. Midnight Famil…

Lance Oppenheim is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been collaborating with the NY Times since the beginning of college, making three Op-Docs, and now the brand’s first ever feat…

Kevin Klauber is a documentary editor based in Los Angeles. He is best known for editing the Oscar-winning documentaries Icarus and 20 Feet from Stardom. Since then, he's contributed to numerous feat…

Bing Liu is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based in Chicago. His first feature documentary, Minding the Gap, is streaming on Hulu and was nominated for best documentary at the 2019 Acade…

Charles Haine has worked in the film industry since 1999 as a colorist, cinematographer, and entrepreneur. He founded the production company Dirty Robber in 2008, which has produced feature films, sh…

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. Wonb…

Vanessa Carr is a Brooklyn-based cinematographer specializing in vérité-style shooting. Vanessa shot a handful of episodes for the New York Times docu-series, The Weekly, and has contributed to PBS F…

Mohammad Gorjestani is an Iranian-American filmmaker based in San Francisco, specializing in branded films. His work has appeared at SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, as well as on Vimeo Staff Picks, The …

Courtney Coupe is the head of Great Big Story, a cinematic storytelling unit of CNN. Since it launched in 2015, Great Big Story has produced countless mini-documentaries, primarily distributed on You…

Johnny Harris is a multimedia journalist at Vox. His show, Borders, is an international documentary series that explores people and culture at various border areas. Johnny also makes videos for his p…

Ed Ou is a visual journalist at NBC Left Field. He started his career as a teenager, shooting in the Middle East for Reuters and the Associated Press. He then worked for the New York Times covering E…