Docs & More

Hello Listeners!

I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to the second series of the Docs & More podcast, where you’ve been able to hear from award-winning and Oscar nominated directors!!

Including Deepti Gupta, Mart Bira, Asad Faruqi, Barry Avrich, Siji Awoyinka, Erika Cohn, Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak,  Joel Bakan, Maia Lekow, Mia Donavan, Mina Keshavarz, Sharron Ward and Tamara Dawit.

Their stories have covered a vast geographical area from Ethiopia and Kenya to Canada and the US, from Mongolia to Nigeria and from Pakistan and India to Hong Kong and Iran.

These podcasts are my passion and I am glad they have reached such a wide, global audience. I would love to make a third series but for that to happen I need you. If you would like to see a third series, please consider donating some money - however little -  through my ko fi page, at www.ko-fi.com/docsmore.  

Thank you.

Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).

This week I’m joined by one of the co-directors of the incredible documentary, The New Corporation – the Unfortunately Necessary Sequel.  Described by Forbes magazine as the ‘must see documentary of the year’,  the film charts how our democracies are in danger, thanks to the rise of corporations. Connecting stories from around the world the film examines economic inequality, racial injustice, climate change and much more. One half of this impressive directing duo is the award-winning director Jennifer Abbott, and the other is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, a writer and also film maker, Joel Bakan.  

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This week my guest is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director and producer, Erika Cohn. Her latest documentary film, The Belly of the Beast, uncovers a pattern of illegal sterilisations taking place in a woman’s prison in the USA. It exposes the thinking of the doctors who carried out these procedures, who literally believe they can play God and decide on the future fate of women which will affect the rest of their lives and violates their human rights. 

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 Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). 

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Joining me this week on the Docs & More podcast, are two film makers, chronicling an extra-ordinary story. Diana Neille and Richard Poplak’s debut documentary, Influence,  charts the world of advertising and PR, Bell Pottinger and the late Sir Timothy Bell. He’s probably best known as Margaret Thatcher’s, the former British Prime Minister, favourite spin doctor who relied on him to bring in results. The film looks at the man and the firm and what they did and how it all fell apart.

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Joining me this week are a group known as the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers. You may recall that in 2019, Hong Kong erupted in protests against the new controversial extradition bill. Those spearheading the protests were a group of students from the Polytechnic University, who decided to make a stand for freedom and democracy.  Slowly, the University building is surrounded by police. Are the red brick walls still a university campus or a prison? I’m joined now by the makers of Inside The Red Brick Wall, the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers who are speaking to me via a translator. All wish to remain anonymous and the voice of the translator is disguised.

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This week my guest is one half of a very fruitful and creative partnership. Natasha Dack-Ojumu has worked on a number of documentary films for both television and theatrical release as a producer and executive producer, winning critical acclaim around the world. Just some of the films include The Lovers And the Despot, 37 Uses For a Dead Sheep,  Black Power Salute, Imagine’s Olafur Eliasson and Dolce Vita Africana. 

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Born in Iran, my guest this week has worked as a journalist, co-founding a documentary magazine, “From Tehran”.  For the past 18 years Mina Keshavarz  has also been working as a documentary maker, making films such as "Braving the Waves" and "Unwelcome in Tehran". Her latest film, “The Art of Living in Danger” came out this year and has won critical acclaim.  

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Joining me this week is a musician who was born in the UK in the 1970s. The eldest of nine boys and two girls, the family moved back to Lagos, Nigeria when he was five years old. Now living the States, musician Siji Awoyinka, has turned documentary maker, with his debut feature documentary film, Elder’s Corner - chronicling the stories of Nigeria’s forgotten musical heroes!

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