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It’s the very first episode of The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr and our first guest is Phil Wang! And Phil’s subgenre is…This Place is Evil. We’re talking psychological torture, we’re talking gory death scenes, we’re talking Lorraine Kelly?! The Big Pitch with Jimmy Carr is a brand new comedy podcast where each week a different celebrity guest pitches an idea for a film based on one of the SUPER niche sub-genres on Netflix. From ‘Steamy Crime Movies from the 1970s’ to ‘Australian Dysfunctional Family Comedies Starring A Strong Female Lead’, our celebrity guests will pitch their wacky plot, their dream cast, the marketing stunts, and everything in between. By the end of every episode, Jimmy Carr, Comedian by night / “Netflix Executive” by day, will decide whether the pitch is greenlit or condemned to development hell! Listen on all podcast platforms and watch on the Netflix Is A Joke YouTube Channel . The Big Pitch is a co-production by Netflix and BBC Studios Audio. Jimmy Carr is an award-winning stand-up comedian and writer, touring his brand-new show JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY throughout the USA from May to November this year, as well as across the UK and Europe, before hitting Australia and New Zealand in early 2026. All info and tickets for the tour are available at JIMMYCARR.COM Production Coordinator: Becky Carewe-Jeffries Production Manager: Mabel Finnegan-Wright Editor: Stuart Reid Producer: Pete Strauss Executive Producer: Richard Morris Executive Producers for Netflix: Kathryn Huyghue, Erica Brady, and David Markowitz Set Design: Helen Coyston Studios: Tower Bridge Studios Make Up: Samantha Coughlan Cameras: Daniel Spencer Sound: Charlie Emery Branding: Tim Lane Photography: James Hole…
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Passionate about documentaries? Want to hear from directors? Find out what inspired them? Want to know where you get funding from for your next doc? The UK's Lovejit Dhaliwal interviews directors, funders and finds out the issues behind documentaries. If you would like to donate to the podcast, you can do so here Ko-fi.com/docsmore
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Passionate about documentaries? Want to hear from directors? Find out what inspired them? Want to know where you get funding from for your next doc? The UK's Lovejit Dhaliwal interviews directors, funders and finds out the issues behind documentaries. If you would like to donate to the podcast, you can do so here Ko-fi.com/docsmore
Hello Listeners! I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to the second series of the Docs & More podcast, where you’ve been able to hear from award-winning and Oscar nominated directors!! Including Deepti Gupta, Mart Bira, Asad Faruqi, Barry Avrich, Siji Awoyinka, Erika Cohn, Diana Nielle and Richard Poplak, Joel Bakan, Maia Lekow, Mia Donavan, Mina Keshavarz, Sharron Ward and Tamara Dawit. Their stories have covered a vast geographical area from Ethiopia and Kenya to Canada and the US, from Mongolia to Nigeria and from Pakistan and India to Hong Kong and Iran. These podcasts are my passion and I am glad they have reached such a wide, global audience. I would love to make a third series but for that to happen I need you. If you would like to see a third series, please consider donating some money - however little - through my ko fi page, at www.ko-fi.com/docsmore . Thank you. Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels).…
My guest this week is Mart Bira, a woman who’s student documentary won critical acclaim. Growing up in Mongolia she grew up with a love of storytelling and started working for Mongolian television once she had completed her education. She’s worked on entertainment, drama and live tv shows. Deciding to learn more about documentary film making, she moved to the UK, and following her Masters, she completed her film, The Nomadic Doctor. The film was shortlisted for the Best Student Academy Award – better known as the Oscars and won a gold medal, as well as winning a whole host of other awards!! Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.…
This week I’m joined by one of the co-directors of the incredible documentary, The New Corporation – the Unfortunately Necessary Sequel. Described by Forbes magazine as the ‘must see documentary of the year’, the film charts how our democracies are in danger, thanks to the rise of corporations. Connecting stories from around the world the film examines economic inequality, racial injustice, climate change and much more. One half of this impressive directing duo is the award-winning director Jennifer Abbott, and the other is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, a writer and also film maker, Joel Bakan. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.…
This week my guest is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning director and producer, Erika Cohn. Her latest documentary film, The Belly of the Beast, uncovers a pattern of illegal sterilisations taking place in a woman’s prison in the USA. It exposes the thinking of the doctors who carried out these procedures, who literally believe they can play God and decide on the future fate of women which will affect the rest of their lives and violates their human rights. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.…
This week I’m joined by a film maker, Mia Donovan, from Montreal in Canada. Her latest documentary film, Dope is Death, explores how the Black Panthers and the Young Lords became active in their communities helping people come of drugs without any side effects – using acupuncture. This was 1973. And this project was seen as a threat by the US government. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.…
Joining me this week on the Docs & More podcast, are two film makers, chronicling an extra-ordinary story. Diana Neille and Richard Poplak’s debut documentary, Influence, charts the world of advertising and PR, Bell Pottinger and the late Sir Timothy Bell. He’s probably best known as Margaret Thatcher’s, the former British Prime Minister, favourite spin doctor who relied on him to bring in results. The film looks at the man and the firm and what they did and how it all fell apart. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels). If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore.…
Joining me this week are a group known as the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers. You may recall that in 2019, Hong Kong erupted in protests against the new controversial extradition bill. Those spearheading the protests were a group of students from the Polytechnic University, who decided to make a stand for freedom and democracy. Slowly, the University building is surrounded by police. Are the red brick walls still a university campus or a prison? I’m joined now by the makers of Inside The Red Brick Wall, the Hong Kong Documentary Filmmakers who are speaking to me via a translator. All wish to remain anonymous and the voice of the translator is disguised. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee https://ko-fi.com/docsmore…
This week my guest is one half of a very fruitful and creative partnership. Natasha Dack-Ojumu has worked on a number of documentary films for both television and theatrical release as a producer and executive producer, winning critical acclaim around the world. Just some of the films include The Lovers And the Despot, 37 Uses For a Dead Sheep, Black Power Salute, Imagine’s Olafur Eliasson and Dolce Vita Africana. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
Born in Iran, my guest this week has worked as a journalist, co-founding a documentary magazine, “From Tehran”. For the past 18 years Mina Keshavarz has also been working as a documentary maker, making films such as "Braving the Waves" and "Unwelcome in Tehran". Her latest film, “The Art of Living in Danger” came out this year and has won critical acclaim. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
Joining me this week is a musician who was born in the UK in the 1970s. The eldest of nine boys and two girls, the family moved back to Lagos, Nigeria when he was five years old. Now living the States, musician Siji Awoyinka, has turned documentary maker, with his debut feature documentary film, Elder’s Corner - chronicling the stories of Nigeria’s forgotten musical heroes! Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
This week I’m joined by the multi-award winning Canadian film maker, Barry Avrich. He has a style that focuses on powerful personalities and past subjects of his films include Lew Wasserman a titan of Universal Studios and the Rolling Stones promoter Michael Cohl. This year, his latest documentary, Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art, has been released and is currently screening at documentary festivals and is coming to you on a streaming service very soon! Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
This week I’m joined by a Kenyan musician from Nairobi who has now turned documentary maker. As well as being the front woman of the explosive band Maia & The Big Sky, Maia Lekow's first feature documentary, The Letter, has come out this year. The film, which explores how and why families turn against their elders, is co-directed and produced with her husband Christopher King. It's also just been officially selected by Kenya to be their entry for the Oscars! Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
This week we’re joined by Sharron Ward, a filmmaker, born in Gisborne, NZ, the home of “Middle Earth,” from The Lord of The Rings. Sharron took a more unusual path before making documentaries, working as an Art Director, Stylist and Props Buyer for fiction films and commercials. She later moved into documentaries and is an Emmy award and Royal Television Society Award winner. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
This week we're joined by Asad Faruqi, an Emmy Award nominated cinematographer and filmmaker. Over the past six years he has shot a number of award-winning films, including “Saving Face.” “Pakistan’s Taliban Generation,” “Transgenders: Pakistan’s Open Secret” and was also the co-director of “Armed With Faith”, a documentary about a civilian bomb detection squad in Pakistan. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
This week we're joined by Tamara Dawit a producer/director based in Canada and Ethiopia. As well as working in documentaries she also produces music and dramas. Tamara is a founding member of the REMC (The Racial Equity Media Collective) in Canada and has been an advisor to various bodies on how to support the film industry in both Canada and East Africa. Her feature documentary, Finding Sally, was released earlier this year and is screening at film festivals winning wide praise and has won Tamara the Ladiha Award for best documentary by an African woman. Don't forget to subscribe to the show! Music by Mixolydian Studios Sydney (Michiya Nagai and Benjamin Samuels) If you enjoyed this podcast you can support us with a coffee Ko-fi/DocsMore…
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