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D-Day Leadership Academy: Jake Schroeder on WWII Veterans, Normandy & Redefining Success
Season 6 Episode 273
He sang the national anthem for the Colorado Avalanche a thousand times, coached 4,000 inner-city kids, lost it all, and rebuilt on the beaches of No…
2 months, 1 week ago
What If You're Not Actually Failing? I Deep Dive with Director Quinnolyn Benson-Yates
Season 6
What if failure isn’t the enemy—but the training ground?
That’s the question Christian Taylor explores in this episode of Documentary First: The Deep …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Quinnolyn Benson-Yates on Epic Bill: Failure, Reinvention & the Filmmaker’s Endurance
Season 6 Episode 272
Award-winning filmmaker Quinnolyn Benson-Yates made her first feature documentary before film school—and its seven-year journey from short film conce…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Finding The Good Guys | Deep Dive With Joe Amodei
Season 6
How do you know if you’ve found a Joe Amodei—or a predatory film distributor?
That’s the question Christian Taylor explores in this episode of Documen…
3 months ago
Joe Amodei on Documentary Distribution: Budgets, Genres & Building Your Audience
Season 6 Episode 271
Virgil Films founder Joe Amodei shares the hard truth: $250K is your budget ceiling, traditional marketing no longer is effective, and you must build…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Imposter Gap | Deep Dive with Filmmaker Jeffrey Roth
Season 6
Imagine standing in an ancient Egyptian tomb, camera in hand, as a sarcophagus is opened for the first time in thousands of years. For filmmaker Jeff…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Why Viewers Forget 90% of Your Film | Deep Dive with Charles Olivier
Season 6
“People are going to watch your movie for such an infinitesimally small percentage of their life. What they’re going to do is remember it.”
That insig…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Editing "Surviving Ohio State" for HBO I Deep Dive with Charles Oliver
Season 6 Episode 270
Emmy-winning editor Charles Olivier reveals how he restructured HBO's Surviving Ohio State and what it's like getting notes from George Clooney.
Charl…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Egyptian “Indiana Jones”, Zahi Hawass of “The Man With The Hat” I Deep Dive with Jeffery Roth
Season 6 Episode 269
Jeffrey Roth has spent his career letting extraordinary people tell their own stories—Apollo astronauts, President George H.W. Bush, and now Dr. Zahi…
4 months ago
Peter Kelly’s Archaeological Adventure in the Turks and Caicos
Season 5 Episode 268
In this episode of Documentary First, host Christian Taylor sits down with filmmaker Peter Kelly to explore his remarkable journey from his Mississip…
4 months, 2 weeks ago