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Adapt or Die: A Working Filmmaker with AI in 2026
Season 6 Episode 278
Adapt or die. What does that actually look like for a working filmmaker?
Chicago documentary filmmaker Armin Korsos has a working filmmaker's answer t…
7 hours ago
Anthropic's $1.5B Mistake. Yours Could Cost More.
Season 6
What does a $1.5 billion AI lawsuit have in common with your unwritten will?
In September 2025, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle the lar…
6 days, 21 hours ago
Why Does One Documentary Clip Cost $70,000? Music Licensing and Fair Use
Season 6 Episode 277
How much does the average documentary filmmaker's biggest licensing mistake cost?
A 30-second Jackson 5 clip can run a documentary $50,000 to $70,000 …
2 weeks ago
The First Generation to Live Shorter Lives Than Their Parents | Deep Dive with Robin Canfield
Season 6
What if the documentaries no streaming platform will buy are the ones that could save your kid's life?
Today's children may be the first generation in…
3 weeks ago
Robin Canfield on Teaching iPhone Documentary in 20 Countries
Season 6 Episode 276
Why do documentary subjects freeze for a professional camera - but open up to an iPhone?
Robin Canfield shares why he films with iPhones, how he teach…
3 weeks, 6 days ago
They Wanted My Voice to Train AI - What Thoreau Knew About Living Deliberately in a Revolution
Season 6
Someone tried to harvest Christian's voice for AI training. The pitch was polished, the project sounded real. But when she responded with ten profess…
1 month ago
Erik & Chris Ewers on PBS Funding, AI & Directing Goldblum, Clooney & Streep
Season 6 Episode 275
Even with Ken Burns and Don Henley attached, funding a PBS documentary is brutal. So what hope do the rest of us have?
Erik and Christopher Ewers get …
1 month, 1 week ago
Erik & Chris Ewers: Quiet Desperation—Competence vs Self-Knowledge: Deep Dive on Episode 274
Season 6
He edited nearly every Ken Burns film since The Civil War. He still didn't know who he was.
Henry David Thoreau wrote that most people lead lives of “…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
I Didn't Know Myself - Erik & Chris Ewers on Ken Burns, PBS & Thoreau
Season 6 Episode 274
He's edited nearly every Ken Burns film ever made. But he couldn't edit himself.
What does it take to build a filmmaking career inside Ken Burns's wor…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
What Francesca Bridgerton and a D-Day Veteran Both Discovered About Grief I Deep Dive on Ep. 273
Season 6
In Bridgerton Season 4, Francesca Bridgerton stands in the middle of her husband’s funeral and says something no one expects: “I want to feel joy.”
Ei…
2 months ago