Docs & More Lovejit Dhaliwal

Hello Listeners!

I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to the second series of the Docs & More podcast, where you’ve been able to hear from award-winning and Oscar nominated directors!!

Including Deepti Gupta, Mart Bira, Asad Faruqi, Barry Avrich, Siji Awoyinka, Erika Cohn, Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak,  Joel Bakan, Maia Lekow, Mia Donavan, Mina Keshavarz, Sharron Ward and Tamara Dawit.

Their stories have covered a vast geographical area from Ethiopia and Kenya to Canada and the US, from Mongolia to Nigeria and from Pakistan and India to Hong Kong and Iran.

These podcasts are my passion and I am glad they have reached such a wide, global audience. I would love to make a third series but for that to happen I need you. If you would like to see a third series, please consider donating some money - however little -  through my ko fi page, at www.ko-fi.com/docsmore.  

Thank you.

Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).

My guest this week is Mart Bira, a woman who’s student documentary won critical acclaim. Growing up in Mongolia she grew up with a love of storytelling and started working for Mongolian television once she had completed her education. She’s worked on entertainment, drama and live tv shows. Deciding to learn more about documentary film making, she moved to the UK, and following her Masters, she completed her film,  The Nomadic Doctor.  The film was shortlisted for the Best Student Academy Award – better known as the Oscars and won a gold medal, as well as winning a whole host of other awards!!
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Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).
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This week I’m joined by one of the co-directors of the incredible documentary, The New Corporation – the Unfortunately Necessary Sequel.  Described by Forbes magazine as the ‘must see documentary of the year’,  the film charts how our democracies are in danger, thanks to the rise of corporations. Connecting stories from around the world the film examines economic inequality, racial injustice, climate change and much more. One half of this impressive directing duo is the award-winning director Jennifer Abbott, and the other is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, a writer and also film maker, Joel Bakan.  

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Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). 

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This week my guest is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director and producer, Erika Cohn. Her latest documentary film, The Belly of the Beast, uncovers a pattern of illegal sterilisations taking place in a woman’s prison in the USA. It exposes the thinking of the doctors who carried out these procedures, who literally believe they can play God and decide on the future fate of women which will affect the rest of their lives and violates their human rights. 

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 Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). 

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This week I’m joined by a film maker, Mia Donovan, from Montreal in Canada.  Her latest documentary film, Dope is Death, explores how the Black Panthers and the Young Lords became active in their communities helping people come of drugs  without any side effects – using acupuncture.  This was 1973. And this project was seen as a threat by the US government.
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Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).
If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.

Joining me this week on the Docs & More podcast, are two film makers, chronicling an extra-ordinary story. Diana Neille and Richard Poplak’s debut documentary, Influence,  charts the world of advertising and PR, Bell Pottinger and the late Sir Timothy Bell. He’s probably best known as Margaret Thatcher’s, the former British Prime Minister, favourite spin doctor who relied on him to bring in results. The film looks at the man and the firm and what they did and how it all fell apart.

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Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). 

If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.