The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast
Asif Kapadia
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Welcome to The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast, where your favourite non-fiction filmmakers reveal the documentaries that have had lasting impact on their lives and careers.
This week, multi award-winning film director, writer and producer Asif Kapadia (and the 2020 recipient of the prestigious BBC Grierson Trustees' Award) joins June Jennings to talk about three documentaries related to the 1970s. From political context to personal archives to depicting icons in their prime, we discover which films informed Kapadia's own preoccupations when making Senna, Amy and Diego Maradona.
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SHOW NOTES
- Senna (2010, Asif Kapadia) // Rent via Prime Video, Google Play in the UK & Stream via Netflix & MUBI in the US
- Amy (2015, Asif Kapadia) // Rent via Prime Video & iTunes in the UK & Watch on Prime Video in the US
- Diego Maradona (2019, Asif Kapadia) // Rent via Prime Video, iTunes, Google Play, BFI Player & Curzon Home Cinema in the UK & HBO Max in the US.
- When We Were Kings (1996, Leon Gast) // Watch on BBC Storyville in the UK & Rent via HBO Max in the US
- Hoop Dreams (1994, Steve James) // Rent via Curzon Home Cinema in the UK & Prime Video, iTunes, Hulu & HBO Max in the US
- Italianamerican (1974, Martin Scorsese) // Watch on the Criterion Channel in the US.
- Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmakers Apocalypse (1991, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper, Eleanor Coppola) // Rent via Prime Video, iTunes & Google Play in the US
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The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast is a Little Dot Studios production in partnership with The Grierson Trust.
Hosted by June Jennings
Produced by Nicole Davis and Annie Hughes
Executive produced by Paul Woolf
Music by Dusty Decks
Edited by Content is Queen
Artwork by Nash Kasic
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