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The DOK Industry Podcast offers a space for dialogue and debate. From its start, the podcast was a platform for conversation around the creation, curation and criticism of creative documentary and animated films, story ownership, decolonising archives, interrogations of positions of power, pathways into the industry for underrepresented and marginalised professionals and the construction of an inclusive industry.
The DOK Industry Podcast reflects the opinions and viewpoints of its participants. We do not engage in censorship. Consequently, the statements made here do not necessarily reflect the position of DOK Leipzig.
The DOK Industry Podcast episodes are produced in collaboration with our dear friends, the Programmers of Colour Collective (POC2) and The What’s Up With Docs Podcast. We have conceived together a string of discussions that challenge the status quo. We strive to embrace the nuances and contradictions of a complex reality. In personal and truthful conversations between sparring partners, the creators, moderators and guests amplify diverse, overlooked and alternative perspectives for listeners to engage and empathise with.
We joyfully present six seasons! Enjoy.
Curated and moderated by the members of Programmers of Colour Collective (POC2) and What's Up With Docs, and supported by Docs-in-Orbit and film.macht.kritisch - The Podcast about the *Other* Cinema by Canan Turan.
If art comes from a deeply personal place, can filmmaking ever be too personal? Talking Shorts commissioning editor Savina Petkova is joined by Dutch director Ollie Launspach to discuss what radical intimacy means when it comes to documentary filmmaking and his short film kiss kiss bang bang showing at DOK Leipzig.
Two projects pitched at the DOK Exchange XR Showcase, two journeys from early ideas to internationally presented works. Chloé Lee – Inter(mediate) Spaces – and Lucy Hammond – Ôl (Haunts) – explore how XR can transform 2D archival materials into new immersive forms, sharing their creative methodologies and the challenges of working with archives in XR.
Immersive media keeps evolving – but what will endure once the novelty fades? This UK–Germany conversation examines the forces shaping XR’s future, from sustainability and long-term structures to new creative practices. For anyone curious about where immersive media is truly heading, this episode offers rare insight, honest debate, and real inspiration.
In this conversation, cultural workers Abhishek Nilamber and Laura Kloeckner speak with film curator Lucy Mukerjee about their research with United Screens, sourcing the experiences of filmmakers and mapping pathways to audiences in the Global South, as well as their latest project Meshdia, which proposes a collaborative infrastructure for circulating cinema.