The Neil Berkeley Podcast

The Neil Berkeley Podcast

Each week on the The Neil Berkeley Podcast host, Neil Berkeley, is talking to doc filmmakers from every entry on the call sheet and beyond. The conversation is an honest and entertaining discussion about not only the guest's work but their lives and what it's like living their own story while spending their days telling the stories of others.

  1. 10/20/2023

    "They're always gonna want more films." Filmmaker Doug Blush

    Doug Blush is an award-winning director, producer, editor, writer and cinematographer whose work includes over 100 feature and television projects. Recent credits include, as consulting editor and producer, the 2018 Academy Award winning ICARUS, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, and the recent HBO documentary THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE. He was Co-Editor and Associate Producer of Kirby Dick’s THE HUNTING GROUND in 2014 and the Oscar nominated and Emmy winning THE INVIS- IBLE WAR in 2012. Recent work as consulting or supervising editor include the Sun- dance documentaries JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY, THE MARS GENERATION, CHASING CORAL, ON HER SHOULDERS, DARK MONEY and KING IN THE WILDERNESS, and earlier editorial and producing work includes the popular documentaries WORDPLAY, FREAKONOMICS, OUTRAGE, THESE AMAZING SHADOWS, and SUPERHEROES. He is also a longtime film educator with classes and seminars at USC, UCLA, Syracuse University and the YoungArts Foundation in Miami, as well as exchanges and panels in Indonesia, Brazil, Armenia, Malaysia, Nigeria, China, the Netherlands and more. Show Notes Doug Blush iMDB Kirby Dick Amy Ziering The Last Starfighter Kartiki Gonsalves The Elephant Whisperer Honeyland Truffle Hunters Ween Ellen Frankenstein New Day Nikola Marsh Arlene Nelson Crumb Chris Smith American Movie William Boroughs Invisible War Michael Moore Werner Herzog Ryan Coogler Zack Arnold Doug Block Icarus Melanie Miller Alliance of Doc Editors The S Word

    1h 4m
4.8
out of 5
17 Ratings

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Each week on the The Neil Berkeley Podcast host, Neil Berkeley, is talking to doc filmmakers from every entry on the call sheet and beyond. The conversation is an honest and entertaining discussion about not only the guest's work but their lives and what it's like living their own story while spending their days telling the stories of others.