Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: Fab Five Filmmakers Share Emotion Of Playing IDFA – World’s Largest Documentary Film Festival
deadline.comIDFA – the largest documentary film festival in the world — has just wrapped its 36th edition, and it was a memorable one by every definition.
Two hundred and fifty films screened in Amsterdam, representing work from across the globe –the Middle East to Africa, Asia, North and South America, and Europe.
In a special edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, we report on the festival from Amsterdam, speaking on the ground with five notable filmmakers, including Oscar winner Roger Ross Williams, who came to IDFA for the European premiere of his new Netflix documentary Stamped From the Beginning, an examination of how racist ideas have permeated American culture.
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nicole Newnham tells us how European audiences reacted to her award-winning documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite, about the titular American sex researcher who became a sensation after the publication of her book The Hite Report in the 1970s, and then was virtually driven into exile by a harsh backlash to her findings.
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