Rough Cut
Conversations with documentary filmmakers and video journalists about their creative process—successes, failures, and what they’ve learned along the way. Created by the global filmmaking collective The Video Consortium, Rough Cut is a guide to navigating today’s ever-changing media landscape.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 71
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Glen Zipper on How Directors Should Pitch to Producers
Glen Zipper is a documentary producer based in Los Angeles. One of his first films, Undefeated, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 2012. His more recent work includes the Netflix docu-seri…
Pamela B. Green on the Darkest Moments in Filmmaking
Pamela B. Green directed and produced Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, a documentary about the first female filmmaker. For her day job, Green produces movie trailers and other market…
Meghan Oretsky: How to get your film on Vimeo Staff Picks
Meghan Oretsky is a curator at Vimeo, selecting videos for its Staff Picks page. She also founded Ladies with Lenses, a Vimeo channel and NYC-based screening series featuring women filmmakers. Meghan…
Rachel Lears on how to choose the right subjects for your documentary
Rachel Lears is a documentary producer and director based in New York. Her latest film, Knock Down the House, follows four female grassroots candidates, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as they ta…
Dan Berger: Film Distribution 101
What exactly does a film distributor do? And do filmmakers even need a distributor? Dan Berger, the president of Oscilloscope films answers all our burning questions about documentary film distributi…
Mickey Duzyj & Mona Panchal: How to Bounce Back from Failure
Mickey Duzyj is a sports illustrator and director living in upstate New York. His award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 short "The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere" was adapted in to the Netflix Docu-series,…
Nausheen Dadabhoy on Choosing the Right Team for your Film
Nausheen Dadabhoy is a Pakistani-American cinematographer from Southern California. She has been a Director of Photography on a handful of documentary features and spent 9 years making her own film, …
Alexandria Bombach on how filmmakers should portray stories of trauma and why she edits her own films
Alexandria Bombach is a cinematographer, editor and director from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Her feature-length documentary ON HER SHOULDERS follows Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi woman who survived ge…
Jon Kasbe on shooting vs editing and what it's like to watch his own film in a theater
Jon Kasbe is a documentary filmmaker based in New York. His new film, When Lambs Become Lions won Best Editing in Tribeca Film Festival’s Documentary competition.
Check out Jon’s work at https://jonka…
Erin Lee Carr on how to pitch a documentary to HBO and lessons from her dad, David Carr
Erin Lee Carr is a New York-based director, producer and writer. Her debut film, Thought Crimes, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs in 2015 and aired on HBO that May. Her hit film Mo…
Spencer Chumbley on shooting in war zones and the benefits of being self-taught
Spencer Chumbley is a freelance non-fiction cinematographer and producer focused on news and documentary. He has extensive field experience working in hostile and sensitive environments for productio…