This week I’m joined by the multi-award winning Canadian film maker, Barry Avrich. He has a style that focuses on powerful personalities and past subjects of his films include Lew Wasserman  a titan of Universal Studios and the Rolling Stones promoter Michael Cohl. This year, his latest documentary, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, has been released and is currently screening at documentary festivals and is coming to you on a streaming service very soon!

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This week I’m joined by a Kenyan musician from Nairobi who has now turned documentary maker. As well as being the front woman of the explosive band Maia & The Big Sky, Maia Lekow's first feature documentary, The Letter, has come out this year. The film, which explores how and why families turn against their elders, is co-directed and produced with her husband Christopher King.  It's also just been officially selected by Kenya to be their entry for the Oscars!

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This week we’re joined by Sharron Ward, a filmmaker, born in Gisborne, NZ,  the home of  “Middle Earth,” from The Lord of The Rings.  Sharron took a more unusual path before making documentaries, working as an  Art Director, Stylist and Props Buyer for fiction films and commercials. She later moved into documentaries and is an Emmy award and Royal Television Society Award winner.

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This week we're joined by Asad Faruqi, an Emmy Award nominated cinematographer and filmmaker. Over the past six years he has shot a number of award-winning films, including “Saving Face.”  “Pakistan’s Taliban Generation,” “Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret” and was also the co-director of “Armed With Faith”, a documentary about a civilian bomb detection squad in Pakistan.

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This week we're joined by Tamara Dawit a producer/director based in Canada and Ethiopia. As well as working in documentaries she also produces music and dramas. Tamara is a founding member of the REMC (The Racial Equity Media Collective) in Canada and has been an advisor to various bodies on how to support the film industry in both Canada and East Africa. Her feature documentary, Finding Sally, was released earlier this year and is screening at film festivals winning wide praise and has won Tamara the Ladiha Award for best documentary by an African woman. 

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This week we're joined by Deepti Gupta, a talented director of photography, who after working in Bollywood has just finished directing her debut feature documentary, Shut Up Sona.  Her film journey has included working with Asif Kapadia as well as other working in a whole host of genres. Shut Up Sona is currently premiering at film festivals around the world and this week is being screened at DocNYC!

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This week we're joined by Joe Bullman a documentary writer and director. His documentaries include The Crime Scene Cleaner and the award-winning The Man Who Bought Mustique. He also received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director for his documentary The Seven Sins of England. 

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This week we’re joined by James Jones, a multi award-winning British director, making documentary films in some of the world’s most difficult and dangerous places. His films include On the President's Orders, Unarmed Black Male, Children of the Gaza War and The Secret State of North Korea: Life Inside the Secret State. 

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This week we’re joined by Ruhi Hamid, a British filmmaker born in Tanzania of Pakistani heritage. She has made numerous award-winning documentaries for the broadcasters - British, European and also American. Her subjects range from women and poverty to human rights and war.   Her films have covered international stories around the globe as well as some very British concerns. 

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In this week's episode we hear from Ashok Prasad who’s won a number of awards for their documentary films including an international Emmy and been nominated for a few RTS awards. He speaks to Lovejit Dhaliwal about what it's like to work as one of the few Asian documentary film directors in British television and also about the breadth of his work - from The Blair Years to Rhythms of India. 

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