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The usual documentary filmmaking is no longer applicable in Hong Kong since the new national security law. Filmmakers who still believe in the power of documentary need to be creative to overcome all newly added obstacles — funding, subjects’ consent and distribution. Three experienced documentary filmmakers share with us their insights into the journey of overcoming this huge mountain.

The politics of museums is very much in the contemporary global zeitgeist. In this episode, documentary filmmakers Sameer Farooq and Marley McDonald together in conversation with Aisha Jamal contemplate what their films bring to the conversation of objects, collections and the encyclopedic museum. How can documentary uniquely contribute to this burning issue?

A conversation on the American Non-Profit Industrial Complex and interrogating how these organisations “mission wash” their role in maintaining a status quo within the documentary ecosystem, harming its labour force.

Bedatri Datta Choudhury in conversation with Shakira Refos and Hansen Bursic.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with Programmers of Colour Collective POC2.

“The Culture of Film Curating” shines a light on outstanding curators and explores the unique cultural practices that they bring to their work. The discussion will focus on collaborating with various types of institutions while working to preserve a plurality of international film cultures.

Greg de Cuir Jr in conversation with Alia Ayman and Matthew Barrington.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion are the buzzwords that litter program initiatives in the entertainment industry as of late. This podcast will discuss ongoing efforts by change makers in the Festival space to close and challenge the systemic access gap for programmers of color.

Irene Soriano in conversation with Lucy Jane Mukerjee and Faridah Gbadamosi.

Filmmaker and archivist Jihan El-Tahri and creator, host of The What’s Up with Docs podcast, and archival researcher Toni Bell chat once more one year into Jihan’s multi-disciplinary project, “People’s Stories – Past & Present: Bridging the Silenced and Liminal Spaces of African Imagery”.

Toni Bell in conversation with Jihan El-Tahri.
DOK Leipzig in collaboration with What's Up With Docs.

Moderated by Claire Diao, a conversation with Jihan El-Tahri, Jean-Marie Téno, Femi Odugbemi.

DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.

A comedic look at recent pop-culture documentaries exposing abuse practices wrapped in positivity culture. Curated and moderated by Shakira Refos, a conversation with Cate Stuart and Jawara Gordon.

DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.

The Caribbean has traditionally been dominated by Hollywood, and the kinds of films made by the region’s filmmakers often tends to reflect that dominance. Might there be room for other, more experimental approaches to filmmaking?

DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.

In the larger mainstream cinematic space, or even film festival space, there is an acute shortage of both narrative and documentary films made and exhibited with brown LGBTQ+ stories at its center.

Curated and moderated by Sridhar Rangayan, a conversation with Sonal Giani, Kalki Subramaniam and Arshad Wasi Khan.

DOK Leipzig in collaboration with POC2, Programmers of Colour Collective.