Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film
Pure Nonfiction
If you love documentary films, hear from the top storytellers on Pure Nonfiction. Host Thom Powers is well-connected in this world as a documentary curator for the Toronto International Film Festival, DOC NYC, and SundanceNow Doc Club. He leads conversations that are frank, funny and revealing. Listen to interviews with Oscar-winning filmmakers Barbara Kopple, Alex Gibney, and Roger Ross Williams; as well as the directors of “Making a Murderer,” “Weiner” and “OJ: Made in America.” Often the stories behind the scenes are as dramatic as what’s on the screen. On Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @purenonfiction. Subscribe now.
Episodes
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Sep 30, 2020 • 31min
123: Yoruba Richen on Breonna Taylor & Harry Belafonte
On Twitter: @redrubes14 @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Sep 21, 2020 • 25min
122: Free hajooj kuka
On Twitter: @hajooj @stevenmarkovitz @bigworldcinema @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Sep 16, 2020 • 41min
121: Mark Cousins’ Cinematic Road Trips
On Twitter: @markcousinsfilm #WomenMakeFilm @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Sep 7, 2020 • 28min
120: Cameron Bailey on #TIFF20 and Planet Africa
On Twitter: @cameron_tiff @TIFF_NET @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Sep 2, 2020 • 32min
119: Going Undercover with “The Mole Agent”
On Twitter: @moleagentfilm @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Aug 26, 2020 • 38min
118: Meet Ja’Tovia Gary
On Twitter: @jatovia @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Aug 20, 2020 • 37min
117: The Making of McMillion$
On Twitter: @IAmJLH @thompowers @PureNonfiction #McMillionsHBO
Aug 14, 2020 • 39min
116: Iyabo Boyd of Brown Girls Doc Mafia
On Twitter: @iyabo_iyabo @browngirlsdocm@thompowers @PureNonfiction
Feb 14, 2020 • 25min
115: Uncovering China's "One Child Nation"
On Twitter: @OneChildNation @WangNanfu @thompowers @PureNonfiction
Feb 7, 2020 • 29min
114: "For Sama" Inside Syria
On Twitter: @forsamafilm @thompowers @PureNonfiction
