I think it’s safe to say Jennifer Tieixiera and Camilla Hall have created a documentary unlike any other. It's called Subject, and it profiles people whose stories have appeared in some of the most acclaimed documentaries of the last three decades or so, including Hoop Dreams, The Square, The Wolfpack, and The Staircase. But what makes Subject different is that it focuses on what happened to these folks after their participation in documentaries made them famous. It’s a film that asks filmmakers to take a hard look at their own processes and motives, and we discuss not only filmmaking practices and ethics, but also the state of the doc world both from a creative and business perspective.
More about Jennifer and Camilla here.
Films mentioned in this episode:
Subject (2023), Dir. Jennifer Tiexiera & Camilla Hall
The Staircase series (2022), Dir. Leigh Janiak, Antonio Campos
Hoop Dreams (1994), Dir. Steve James
Capturing The Friedmans (2003), Dir. Andrew Jarecki
The Square (2013), Jehane Noujaim
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom (2015), Evgeny Afineevsky
Other Mentions:
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Documentary Accountability Working Group
Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad aka Oseguera
Follow us on Instagram! @ThousandRoadsPod
Special thanks for helping make this series happen: Sara Archambault, Florence Barrau-Adams, Jon Berman, Ben Cuomo (music), Jax Deluca, Pallavi Deshpande, Nancy Gibbs, Kathleen Hughes, Caroline Kracunas, Laura Manley, Alexis Pancrazi, Liz Schwartz, Jeff Seelbach, Lindsay Underwood (logo/graphics)
This episode was supported by a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.
I think it’s safe to say Jennifer Tieixiera and Camilla Hall have created a documentary unlike any other. It's called Subject, and it profiles people whose stories have appeared in some of the most acclaimed documentaries of the last three decades or so, including Hoop Dreams, The Square, The Wolfpack, and The Staircase. But what makes Subject different is that it focuses on what happened to these folks after their participation in documentaries made them famous. It’s a film that asks filmmakers to take a hard look at their own processes and motives, and we discuss not only filmmaking practices and ethics, but also the state of the doc world both from a creative and business perspective.
More about Jennifer and Camilla here.
Films mentioned in this episode:
Subject (2023), Dir. Jennifer Tiexiera & Camilla Hall
The Staircase series (2022), Dir. Leigh Janiak, Antonio Campos
Hoop Dreams (1994), Dir. Steve James
Capturing The Friedmans (2003), Dir. Andrew Jarecki
The Square (2013), Jehane Noujaim
Winter On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom (2015), Evgeny Afineevsky
Other Mentions:
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
Documentary Accountability Working Group
Dr. Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad aka Oseguera
Follow us on Instagram! @ThousandRoadsPod
Special thanks for helping make this series happen: Sara Archambault, Florence Barrau-Adams, Jon Berman, Ben Cuomo (music), Jax Deluca, Pallavi Deshpande, Nancy Gibbs, Kathleen Hughes, Caroline Kracunas, Laura Manley, Alexis Pancrazi, Liz Schwartz, Jeff Seelbach, Lindsay Underwood (logo/graphics)
This episode was supported by a fellowship at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School.