Podcasts by 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.
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What Documentary Filmmakers Can Learn from Narrative from 2023-03-09T14:00
The Oscar-nominated documentary All That Breathes has a distinct visual style: long, beautiful, perfectly-constructed shots akin to narrative films...
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Rita Baghdadi on Building Intimacy with Subjects&Directing and Shooting Simultaneously from 2023-01-20T11:00
In this episode, we sit down with director, producer, and cinematographer Rita Baghdadi, who's latest film Sirens premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and went on to win th...
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When Subjects Change their Relationship with your Film from 2022-12-01T21:00
Indian filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh were pleasantly surprised when their independent feature doc ...
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When Subjects Change their Relationship with your Film from 2022-12-01T21:00
Indian filmmakers Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh were pleasantly surprised when their independent feature doc ...
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Poh Si Teng on What Makes a Strong Grant Application from 2021-12-19T18:00
Poh Si Teng is a documentary filmmaker and the Funds and Enterprise Program Director at Listen
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/rough-cut/the-power-of-vr-documentaries/">The Power of VR Documentaries</a><small> from 2021-08-15T21:00</small></h5>
<p class="card-text"><p>What kinds of stories are best told in virtual reality? Why is VR so effective, and how can emerging filmmakers get started with VR? <br/><br/>Gary Yost and Adam Loften lead <a href=){kind=link}
How to Negotiate a Fair Rate from 2021-06-27T15:00
As a freelancer, how do you negotiate a rate? What should you consider when setting a price? Doc filmmakers from both sides of the negotiation share their expertise in this special episode.
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Hao Wu on Directing a Film Remotely from 2021-05-30T15:00
Hao Wu is an award-winning documentary filmmaker born and raised in China. His most recent film, 76 Days, documents Wuhan’s COVID-19 outbreak....
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Geeta Gandbhir on Authorship and Working with Editors from 2021-04-28T09:00
Geeta Gandbhir is a documentary director, producer, and editor who has been nominated for three Emmy Awards and has won two. As editor, she won a Pr...
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Jeremy Workman: The Art of Trailer Editing from 2021-02-28T21:00
Jeremy Workman is a documentary filmmaker and founder of Wheelhouse Creative, a company that makes trai...
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Emily Strong: Sound in Documentary from 2021-01-31T22:00
Emily Strong is an NYC-based documentary filmmaker and freelance location sound mixer. She's contributed to Taylor Swift: Miss Americana Listen
Uptin Saiidi: What Works on Social Media from 2020-12-30T11:00
Uptin Saiidi was a multimedia journalist for CNBC for 7 years based in Singapore and Hong Kong. His videos about business and tech like Julie Cohen is a documentary filmmaker and television news producer. Most recently, she di...
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<h5 class="card-title"><a href="/podcast/rough-cut/julie-cohen-on-making-a-commercially-successful-documentary/">Julie Cohen on Making a Commercially Successful Documentary</a><small> from 2020-11-15T15:00</small></h5>
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When the Personal is Political in Documentary Film from 2020-10-11T19:00
Director Nick Bruckman and Producer Amanda Roddy talk about their upcoming film, Not Going Quietly. The film follows activ...
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Funding Your Film: How to Get Started from 2020-09-14T22:00
How do you get funding for your film before you have anything to show? In this episode, Jennie sits down with Co-founders Lisa Kleiner Chanoff and Bonni Cohen, and Senior Program Director Megan ...
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Sven Pape: Learning Documentary Editing from 2020-08-20T05:00
Sven Pape is a documentary and narrative film editor. His YouTube channel This Guy Edits is a collection of doc and narrative editing lessons...
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Marco Williams: A Filmmaker’s Role during Social Change from 2020-07-31T14:00
Marco Williams is a documentary filmmaker and professor of film production at Northwestern University. His films—which center around race, injustice, and...
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The Future of Film Festivals from 2020-07-17T14:00
The Film Festival Alliance is a community of more than 180 film festivals around the globe. It's Executive Director, Lela Meadow-Conner, and ...
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Claire Gordon: How to Simplify Complex Ideas from 2020-06-12T12:00
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 ...
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Joe Coscarelli: The Art of the Remote Interview from 2020-05-21T14:00
Joe Coscarelli is the host of NYTimes’, Diary of a Song, a video series that breaks down how pop...
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Rachel Mason: How to Make a Film About Your Family from 2020-05-07T06:00
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...
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Wendy Cohen: How to Maximize Your Film's Impact from 2020-03-18T17:10
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...
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Luke Lorentzen: The Art of Shooting Solo from 2020-02-12T10:05
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 amb...
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Lance Oppenheim: From Short Doc to Feature from 2020-01-27T17:20
Lance Oppenheim is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He has been collaborating with the NY Times since the beginning of college, making...
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Kevin Klauber on Documentary Editing from 2020-01-09T04:00
Kevin Klauber is a documentary editor based in Los Angeles. He is best known for editing the Oscar-winning documentaries Icarus and 20 Fe...
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Bing Liu on Making a Personal Documentary from 2019-12-18T05:00
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 ...
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Bing Liu on Making a Personal Documentary from 2019-12-18T05:00
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 ...
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Charles Haine on Marketing Yourself as a Filmmaker from 2019-12-04T05:00
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 film...
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Wonbo Woo: From Broadcast to Digital from 2019-11-14T10:45
Wonbo Woo is Wired Magazine’s Executive Producer of Video. In just over a year, Wonbo tripled Wired’s subscribers on YouTube; Vanessa Carr is a Brooklyn-based cinematographer specializing in vérité-style shooting. Vanessa shot a handful of episodes for the New York Times docu-...
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Mohammad Gorjestani: Why Subjects Should Be Collaborators from 2019-10-16T04:00
Mohammad Gorjestani is an Iranian-American filmmaker based in San Francisco, specializing in branded films. His work has appeared at SXSW, Tribeca...
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Courtney Coupe on How Stories Go Viral from 2019-10-02T05:00
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 countles...
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Johnny Harris on How to Learn New Skills Quickly from 2019-09-18T08:00
Johnny Harris is a multimedia journalist at Vox. His show, Bo...
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Ed Ou on Transitioning from Photo to Video from 2019-07-23T09:30
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 ...
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Glen Zipper on How Directors Should Pitch to Producers from 2019-06-12T07:35
Glen Zipper is a documentary producer based in Los Angeles. One of his first films, Undefeated, won the Academy Award...
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Pamela B. Green on the Darkest Moments in Filmmaking from 2019-05-29T23:15
Pamela B. Green directed and produced Meghan Oretsky is a curator at Vimeo, selecting videos for its Staff Pic...
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Rachel Lears on how to choose the right subjects for your documentary from 2019-05-02T13:40
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-Cort...
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Dan Berger: Film Distribution 101 from 2019-04-17T08:00
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 f...
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Dan Berger: Film Distribution 101 from 2019-04-17T08:00
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 f...
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Mickey Duzyj&Mona Panchal: How to Bounce Back from Failure from 2019-04-03T08:00
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 Everywh...
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Nausheen Dadabhoy on Choosing the Right Team for your Film from 2019-03-20T15:30
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 f...
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Alexandria Bombach on how filmmakers should portray stories of trauma and why she edits her own films from 2019-03-06T08:00
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 surviv...
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Jon Kasbe on shooting vs editing and what it's like to watch his own film in a theater from 2019-02-20T08:30
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.
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Erin Lee Carr on how to pitch a documentary to HBO and lessons from her dad, David Carr from 2019-01-24T22:01:41
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 fi...
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Spencer Chumbley on shooting in war zones and the benefits of being self-taught from 2019-01-24T21:58:56
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 prod...
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