All These Wonderful Things

Filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev talks about the collaborative process of filmmaking, the importance of getting input from people with a variety of experience levels and how everyone involved is capable of saving the film in their own way. Listen now on this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things. 🎧

Seven years between films can change you. In this week’s episode, Amir Bar-Lev catches up with @ajschnack.bsky.social and explains what it was like to walk back into an edit room as the oldest person on the crew, and why his job now includes training the next generation. New ep out now! 🔗 in bio.

Filmmaker Marjan Safinia (@marjiparji.bsky.social) on how filmmaking and community organizing use similar skill sets and importance of using those skills to make the world better, especially when other projects are stalled. Listen now on this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things. 🎧

Filmmaker/Field Leader Marjan Safinia (@marjiparji.bsky.social) on how media mergers impact independent filmmakers, the journalism world, and the rise of authoritarianism and oligarchy.  Listen now on this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things. 🎧

For Kate Amend, what started as a simple idea for a documentary with a friend turned into late-night editing sessions at 3:00 a.m. and a lifelong love for filmmaking. Listen to the all-new episode of All These Wonderful Things now. 🎧

Indie film veteran and Vidiots Theatre Executive Director Maggie Mackay talks about the importance of thinking from the audience’s perspective and her commitment to keeping physical media alive. Listen to the all-new episode of All These Wonderful Things now. 🎧

Indie film stalwart and Vidiots Theatre maven Maggie Mackay talks about the halcyon days of the LA Film Festival and what she learned there about "building real community". Listen to this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things now. 🎧

Oscar-nominated producer @jessicahargrave.bsky.social and her childhood best friend built a life making films. So what advice does she have to all the young people who dream of making documentaries? Listen now on this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things. 🎧

Oscar-nominated producer @jessicahargrave.bsky.social on making films with her childhood best friend, making and touring "Come See Me in the Good Light," and the advice she'd give anyone getting into documentary now. 🎧 Listen now! 🔗 in bio

Two organizations, two sets of documentary awards, and broadcast home for neither. @ajschnack.bsky.social and @lisaremington.bsky.social on ATAS and NATAS, the future of doc Emmys and the structural reason doc work keeps getting honored in rooms nobody televises. Full bonus episode — link in bio.

From the early days of @indiewire.com to the Oscars stage with Navalny — Diane Becker on what producing actually takes. Listen to this week's episode of All These Wonderful Things. 🎧

If you missed EP. 1, hear filmmaker Margaret Brown describe the wildest interview she's ever seen, in Episode 1 of All These Wonderful Things — a new weekly podcast from Cinema Eye Honors and DSP Studios, hosted by AJ Schnack and Lisa Remington. Listen wherever you get podcasts. 🔗 in bio.

Cinema Eye Honors asked its voters to select films/series to represent its second decade. The list of 20 is filled with lots of Oscars crossover. Lisa and AJ argue for some of their personal favorites that didn’t make the list. 🎞 Which of your favorites from the past 10 years should be in the 20?

First episode of @allthesewonderfulthings.com podcast is now live. Great to talk to my pal @margaretbrown.bsky.social about The Order of Myths, Yogurt Shop Murders, and her punk rock days in Mobile + @lisaremington.bsky.social asks me to tell @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social origin story.

🎧 All These Wonderful Things is a weekly conversation about documentary, the people who make it, and the crafts that make it great. With hosts @ajschnack.bsky.social and @lisaremington.bsky.social. First episode drops Tuesday, September 8. From @cinemaeyehonors.bsky.social and DSP Studios.

All These Wonderful Things — filmmaker AJ Schnack and Oscar®-winning producer Lisa Remington expanding the conversation around documentary with the filmmakers, artisans and curators who make nonfiction film work. Weekly interviews on Tuesdays with frequent bonus episodes.