Award-winning doc production co & filmmaker podcast π¬ 270 eps w/ HBO, Netflix, PBS filmmakers π§ New eps weekly β¬οΈ Watch | Listen | Support
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Documentary First β real stories, real craft, real people.
Weβre a documentary production company and weekly podcast exploring the art and business of nonfiction filmmaking.
π§ THE PODCAST
270 episodes with filmmakers behind HBO, Netflix, PBS, and indie docs.
New interviews every week The Deep Dive solo episodes on craft and business.
Listen: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube
π¬ OUR FILMS
The Girl Who Wore Freedom β award-winning D-Day documentary (streaming now)
Grueling Glory β short film streaming on website
Heroes of Carentan β doc in post production
The Brave Dutch β doc series in development
Watch: documentaryfirst.com
Donate: givebutter.com/LivingStoriesβ¦
Email: help@documentaryfirst.com
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Debunking a lie can make the lie stronger.
@brianpocrass refused to give the Poltergeist curse oxygen on his documentary @shewasheredoc (distributed by @VirgilFilms).
Here's the discipline behind that decision.
DF DD on Ep. 279 with @ChristiansVoice
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Finding your people, after you've been alone with the work a long time, can feel like an oasis in the desert to someone dying of thirst.
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In this stretch of the new Deep Dive, @christiansvoice tells three stories about the moment the loneliness stops being the whole story, and what community actually does for creative work. C.S. Lewis, a screening in Normandy, and a phone call that turned around a first big shoot.
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Built from great conversation with @armincreates on DF Ep. 278.
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#DocumentaryFilmmaking #CreativeCommunity
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Listen on your favorite app π
Full Deep Dive π podfollow.com/documentary-fiβ¦ "The Two Kinds of βAloneβ Every Filmmaker Knows"
DF Ep. 278 with Armin Korsos: pod.fo/e/41b633 "Adapt or Die: A Working Filmmaker with AI in 2026"
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If you've ever made anything you cared about, you know the lonely math.
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The fundraising. The credit card. The conversation with your crew about rate. All of it lands on you. That weight is not a sign you're failing. It's a sign you're doing the work.
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From the new Deep Dive with @christiansvoice. Built on a line from filmmaker Armin Korsos on Documentary First Ep. 278.
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Full Deep Dive πβ¨podfollow.com/documentary-fiβ¦β¨"The Two Kinds of "Alone" Every Filmmaker Knows"β¨β¨DF Ep. 278 with Armin Korsos:β¨pod.fo/e/41b633β¨"Adapt or Die: A Working Filmmaker with AI in 2026"
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If you've ever made anything you cared about, you know the lonely math.
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The fundraising.
The credit card.
The conversation with your crew about rate.
All of it lands on you. That weight is not a sign you're failing. It's a sign you're doing the work.
From the new Deep Dive with @christiansvoice. Built on an insightful conversation with filmmaker Armin Korsos on Documentary First Ep. 278. Links in comments below.
#DocumentaryFilmmaking #CreativeProcess
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Full Deep Dive π
podfollow.com/documentary-fiβ¦
"The Two Kinds of "Alone" Every Filmmaker Knows"
DF Ep. 278 with Armin Korsos:
pod.fo/e/41b633
"Adapt or Die: A Working Filmmaker with AI in 2026"
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Loneliness is the desert.
Solitude is the garden.
And the work is to turn one into the other.
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That's Henri Nouwen, in a new Deep Dive from @christiansvoice on the two kinds of alone every filmmaker knows.
The clip below is the moment the whole episode pivots on.
Built on a line from a conversation with filmmaker Armin Korsos on Documentary First Ep. 278 which can be heard here: pod.fo/e/41b633
#DocumentaryFilmmaking #CreativeProcess
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Full Deep Dive here β podfollow.com/documentary-fiβ¦
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One year after she was freed, little Dany stood on Utah Beach in a dress sewn from her liberators' parachutes.
82 years later, she still remembers.
THE GIRL WHO WORE FREEDOM, the true story of D-Day told by those who lived it.
This Memorial Day, watch. Remember.
#MemorialDay #DDay
Enjoy the trailer.
Watch the Film - see the comments!
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Watch the full film:
πΊπΈ USA: geni.us/TheGirlWhoWoreFreedoβ¦
π Worldwide (English): tinyurl.com/StreamGWFEnglish
π Worldwide (French): tinyurl.com/StreamGWFFrench
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Three strangers told him the same name on a 20-seat prop plane: find Tennyson Scott.
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He drove through Spot Bay on his last day.
Two old men sat in front of a house.
Armin Korsos with @christiansvoice on Documentary First Ep 278.β¨β¨Listen here: pod.fo/e/41b633
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang : the playing field is level, and the differentiator is who has the best original ideas.
Armin Korsos with @christiansvoice on Documentary First Ep 278.
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No phone. No email. No address.
Three people told a filmmaker the same name on a 20-seat prop plane. Hear what happens on this week's podcast! Tune in tomorrow.
Documentary First Ep 278 with Armin Korsos and @ChristiansVoice
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@AnthropicAI just paid $1.5 billion for using copyrighted material in AI training.
Same problem. Different scale.
The mistake the world's biggest AI companies are making is the same one that bankrupts indie documentaries.
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Christian's new Deep Dive connects:
β’ The Bartz v. Anthropic settlement
β’ The @nytimes v. @OpenAI copyright lawsuit
β’ The music labels suing AI companies
β’ Why one uncleared clip can bankrupt a documentary
To one ancient question every filmmaker has to answer:
What does it actually cost to clear what you used?
Featuring insights from Crux Entertainment ARC Producer Teddy Cannon.
New episode live now.
pod.fo/e/41598b
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The 2,000-year-old answer to this problem is in Luke 14, verses 28 to 30.
Full Deep Dive: pod.fo/e/41598b
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This filmmaker used a Jackson 5 song for 30 seconds.
The price to keep it? $70,000.
Deep Dive on Documentary First Ep. 277 is out now!
pod.fo/e/41598b
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