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The Austin Meyer Podcast
Conversations with the world’s best documentary filmmakers — directors, cinematographers, audio experts, editors, producers, writers — about how they got their start and how they tell stories.
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56 episodi10 Simple Filmmaking Habits to Save You DAYS in the Edit
I really believe that shooting stories with our final edit in mind is super important. You can have the best idea, and the best access, but if you don...
14 TRICKS to Find Your Next Documentary Story Idea
Finding the perfect documentary film idea is like being in the world's biggest scavenger hunt! Here are 14 tricks that I use to find my story ideas.
10 Controversial Rules of Documentary Filmmaking You NEED To Know
A set of rules and principles can be incredibly useful to help guide our decision making in the world of documentary filmmaking. That's why, when I sa...
5 Interview Mistakes New Filmmakers Don’t Know They’re Making
Interviews are the backbone of so many documentaries. They are also very challenging to nail. Especially when you are working as a solo shooter or in...
Making PLANET EARTH III with Mike Gunton & Prakash Matada | Ep. 52
Planet Earth III, the world's premiere natural history documentary series, is back with its third installment, presented and narrated by Sir David Att...
James Honeyborne & Sophie Todd on Producing Netflix’s Our Great National Parks | Ep. 051
Our Great National Parks is a beautiful five-part Netflix documentary series that invites viewers to experience nature in the world's most iconic nati...
Vera Krichevskaya on Independent News & Documentaries in Russia | Ep. 50
Vera Krichevskaya is a documentary filmmaker from Russia who co-founded TV Dozhd (TV Rain), which is the only independent private television channel i...
2022 Documentary Oscars Preview with IndieWire’s Anne Thompson | Ep. 49
The Oscars are coming up on March 27, 2022. To preview the documentary feature category I am joined this week by IndieWire's editor-at-large, Anne Tho...
Luc Forsyth On How To Take Your Cinematography To The Next Level | Ep. 048
This week on the show my guest is Luc Forsyth, a cinematographer from Canada who has worked on films for Netflix, National Geographic, HBO, Showtime,...
Dawn Porter on Directing Good Trouble & The Way I See It | Ep. 047
Dawn Porter is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work has appeared on HBO, PBS, Discovery, and Netflix among others. She has had two featur...
The Making of ‘My Octopus Teacher’ with Pippa Ehrlich, James Reed, and Roger Horrocks | Ep. 046
On today’s episode I sit down with the team behind the hit Netflix documentary, and one of my personal favorite films of the year, My Octopus Teacher....
Jeff Orlowski on Directing The Social Dilemma | Ep. 045
Jeff Orlowski is the director of the newly released Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, which explores the dangerous human impact of social netwo...
Amanda McBaine & Jesse Moss on Directing Sundance Winner, Boys State | Ep. 044
Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss are co-directors of the newly released documentary, Boys State, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and w...
USC Film School and What Comes Next with Director Tayo Amos | Ep. 043
Tayo Amos is a director and filmmaker from the Bay Area now currently living in Los Angeles. After double majoring at Stanford, Tayo went on to earn h...
Editing The Last Dance with Devin Concannon | Ep. 042
My guest today is Devin Concannon, who was one of 4 editors on ESPN’s mega-hit 10 part documentary series, The Last Dance. The Last Dance revolves aro...
Phenomenally Big Ideas with Meena Harris | Ep. 041
Meena Harris is a lawyer, activist, and the founder of the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign, a female-powered organization that brings awareness to in...
Photographing the 2019 Hong Kong Protests with Laurel Chor | Ep. 040
Laurel Chor is an award-winning freelance visual journalist and National Geographic Explorer from Hong Kong. In 2019, she worked with the New York Tim...
Say it Loud with Documentarian Austin Meyer | Ep. 039
Rerunning an episode of the Say It Loud show, in which host and photographer Raul Espinoza invited me on as a guest to talk about my documentary filmm...
How Max Romey Films the World’s Top Endurance Athletes | Ep. 038
Max Romey is an adventure filmmaker and water color artist who, for the past few years, has documented the sport of trail and ultrarunning for Salomon...
Rowing 1300km down the Paraguay River with Photographer Henry Maillet | Ep. 037
Henry Maillet is a photographer whose stories focus on conservation and development. After serving for two years as Peace Corps Volunteers in Paraguay...
From School Project to Sundance with Director Patricia Vidal Delgado | Ep. 036
Patricia Vidal Delgado is a film director and writer from Lisbon, Portugal. Only recently having graduated from the MFA program in Production/Directin...
Leading Creative Teams with Symphony Conductor Francesco Lecce-Chong | Ep. 035
Francesco Lecce-Chong is the music director for the Santa Rosa Symphony and the Eugene Symphony where he has been dedicated to innovative programming,...
Making Plants Cool Again with Botanical Illustrator Nirupa Rao | Ep. 034
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Nirupa Rao is a Botanical Illustrator and a National Geographic Explorer from Bangalore, India.
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Shining a Light on Neglected Stories with Nicholas Kristof | Ep. 033
Nicholas Kristof is a columnist for the New York Times, an author, and a 2-time Pulitzer prize winner who covers humanitarian crises at home and aroun...
Pursuing the Dream: Reflecting on my 2019 | Ep. 032
Happy New Year! In this special edition of the podcast, I am reflecting on my past year's storytelling journey. I distill the lessons I have learned,...
Music Composition is an Act of Discovery with Paul Bessenbacher | Ep. 031
Paul Bessenbacher, or PB, is an esteemed composer for film and TV, and also the lead of the band Opus Orange. His music has been featured on TV shows...
Why You Should Be Prototyping Your Stories with Seamus Harte | Ep. 030
Seamus Harte is the cofounder of Only People Media, a media company that helps people working to change our world by making media to share their story...
The Power of Poetry with Pulitzer Prize Winner Forrest Gander | Ep. 029
Forrest Gander is a poet, novelist, and essayist based in Northern California, whose most recent book of poems, Be With, was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer...
How to Make Your Documentary Stand Out with Charlie Phillips | Ep. 028
Charlie Phillips is the head of video at The Guardian. Before working at The Guardian, Charlie was deputy director at Sheffield DocFest and an editor...
The Dark Side of Sports with Investigative Journalist Benjamin Best | Ep. 027
Trapped in Qatar
Benjamin Best is an award winning investigative reporter, filmmaker, and author whose reporting focuses...
Telling Stories with Heart and Humility with Kate Grant | Ep. 026
Kate Grant is the CEO of The Fistula Foundation.
An obstetric fistula, the kind that occurs in many developing countries, is a hole betw...
Unlocking Your Creative Potential Through Improv with Dan Klein | Ep. 025
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Dan Klein teaches improvisation at Stanford University...
Reporting on Humanitarian Crises with Josh Estey | Ep. 024
Josh Estey is one of the world’s top humanitarian relief and development documentary photographers. His work for UNICEF, CARE, USAID, World Food Progr...
How to Write Amazing Plays with Lauren Gunderson | Ep. 023
Lauren Gunderson is one of the world’s most prolific playwrights. At 37, she is the most produced playwright in America and has taken home many of the...
Anamorphic Chalk Art with Street Artist David Zinn | Ep. 022
David Zinn's Art: www.instagram.com/davidzinn
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David Zinn is a world renowned street artist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan....
Creating Art that Butters People Up with Maja Ruznic | Ep. 021
Link to Maja Ruznic’s artwork: http://bit.ly/MajaPaintings
Maja Ruznic is a prolific artist currently based in Roswell, N...
Writing Children’s Books with Froggy Author Jonathan London | Ep. 020
Jonathan London is a children’s book author who has over 100 publications to his name.
Jonathan is best known as the auth...
Developing Stories for Theaters and Smart Speakers with Kat Zdan | Ep. 019
Kat Zdan studied theater at UCSB and got her MFA in ensemble based physical theater from Dell’Arte International school of physical theater. Kat has b...
Amplifying Voices through Art, Tech, and Photography with Aaron Huey | Ep. 018
Aaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer who has contributed dozens of cover and feature stories to the magazine. His photography stories are...
Beyond the Box Score with NYT Sports Reporter John Branch | Ep. 017
John Branch is a sports reporter for The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2013 for “Snow Fall,” a story about a deadly...