The hosts of Deadline’s Doc Speak and ElectionLine podcasts are getting collectively for an unprecedented crossover episode. Suppose Legislation & Order: SVU meets Legislation & Order: Organized Crime; Angel meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural meets Scooby-Doo (Zoinks! — that basically occurred).
Doc Speak’s John Ridley and Matt Carey and the ticket of ElectionLine’s Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson debate the best political documentary of all time. The candidates could shock you – one from Brazil, one other from Québec, a traditional about JFK, a groundbreaking collection that ran 14 episodes, and a 7-hour and 47-minute epic ostensibly about an all-star athlete turned accused assassin.
And we plumb a thriller: why conservatives have such a tough time making a documentary that’s any good. Johnson, who relies in Washington, D.C., shares what Steve Bannon needed to inform him on that topic. And Patten, Deadline’s Govt Editor, Authorized, Labor & Politics, identifies a doable exception to the rule – a movie a few sure GOP presidential candidate who revealed a hidden facet of himself in a 2014 documentary.
Probably the most profitable documentary of the yr on the field workplace – Am I a Racist? – comes up for pointed dialogue. The movie, directed by Justin Folks and starring political commentator Matt Walsh, makes an attempt to skewer DEI insurance policies however fails miserably, in accordance with one among our podcast execs (to seek out out who’s received it in for I Am Not a Racist? you’ll need to hearken to the episode).
Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Errol Morris, Cory Booker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush and Adam McKay all get name-checked on this particular version of Doc Speak. The pod is hosted by Ridley (the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, and director of Shirley, the Netflix narrative movie about 1972 Democratic presidential candidate Shirley Chisholm) and Matt Carey, Deadline’s documentary editor. Doc Speak, a 2024 Webby Awards honoree, is a manufacturing of Deadline and Ridley’s N? Studios.
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