Show overview
Oscar Winner – Film School Radio hosted by Mike Kaspar has been publishing since 2019, and across the 2 years since has built a catalogue of 12 episodes. Releases follow a roughly quarterly cadence.
None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 5.3 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. The busiest year was 2020, with 10 episodes published.
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Interviews with the best documentary, foreign and independent filmmakers
Latest Episodes
The Last Days – Director and Editor James Moll
1998’s Academy Award Best Feature Documentary, THE LAST DAYS, filmed in five countries, traces the compelling experiences of five Hungarian Holocaust survivors who fell victim to Hitler’s brutal war against the Jews during the final days of WWII. Including newly … Continue reading →
Rebuilding Paradise, Producer Sara Bernstein
Oscar winning Director Ron Howard’s gripping new documentary. Rebuilding Paradise, movingly recounts and expands on the devastating events of Nov. 8, 2018. A tragedy that began with a spark from a transmission line in Northern California, coupled with climate-impacted conditions, … Continue reading →
Daughter (Dcera), Director Daria Kashcheeva
In a hospital room, the Daughter recalls a childhood moment when as a little girl she tried to share her experience with an injured bird with her Father. A moment of misunderstanding and a lost embrace has stretched into many … Continue reading →
Kitbull, Director Rosana Sullivan and Producer Kathryn Hendrickson
‘KITBULL,’ directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. together, they experience friendship for the first time. Director’s Biography: Rosana Sullivan … Continue reading →
Sister, Director Siqi Song
A man thinks back to his childhood memories of growing up with an annoying little sister in China in the 1990s. What would his life have been like if things had gone differently? Directors Statement – The genesis of SISTER came … Continue reading →
Hair Love, Co-directors, Matthew A. Cherry, Everette Downing Jr. and Bruce W. Smith
Tender and empowering, HAIR LOVE is an ode to loving your natural hair – and a celebration of daddies and daughters everywhere. It’s when it’s up to Daddy to give his daughter an extra-special hair style in this story of self-confidence and … Continue reading →
Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You’re a Girl) Director Carole Dysinger
In Afghanistan, many young girls are not able to participate in sports. cultural and religious norms, along with other factors such as safety concerns and years of warfare,have resulted in limited athletic and recreational opportunities for women and girls, especially … Continue reading →
Life Overtakes Me, Co-directors John Haptas and Kristine Samuelson
LIFE OVERTAKES ME tells the story of traumatized children of the refugee diaspora who are in such profound despair that they withdraw into a coma-like state. in Sweden, over 400 refugee children have been afflicted with this life-threatening psychosomatic illness, … Continue reading →
In the Absence, Director Yi Sueng-Jun and Producer Gary Byung-Seok Kam
When the passenger ferry MV Sewol sank off the coast of South korea in 2014, over three hundred people lost their lives, most of them schoolchildren. Years later, the victims’ families and survivors are still demanding justice from the national … Continue reading →
The Neighbors’ Window, Director Marshall Curry
THE NEIGHBORS’ WINDOW tells the story of Alli (Maria Dizzia), a mother of young children who has grown frustrated with her daily routine and husband (Greg eller). But her life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across … Continue reading →
Slamdance Film Festival, Co-founder and President Peter Baxter
It all began when a group of cheerful, subversive filmmakers weren’t accepted into the Sundance Film Festival. Unwilling to take “no” for an answer, they instead started their own event – Slamdance: Anarchy in Utah. 26 years later, Slamdance has become a year-round … Continue reading →
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound, Director Midge Costin
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound reveals the hidden power of sound in cinema . . . and our lives. Few have “ears to hear” or comprehend the emotional storytelling impact sound plays in so-called visual media. Francis Ford … Continue reading →