DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film
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Tune in, gain insights and listen to fresh perspectives! The DOK Industry Podcast offers a space for dialogue and debate. From its start, the podcast was a platform for conversation around the creation, curation and criticism of creative documentary and animated films, story ownership, decolonising archives, interrogations of positions of power, pathways into the industry for underrepresented and marginalised professionals and the construction of an inclusive industry. The DOK Industry Podcast reflects the opinions and viewpoints of its participants. We do not engage in censorship. Consequently, the statements made here do not necessarily reflect the position of DOK Leipzig. The...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
A documentary-industry forum that makes the politics of programming and artistic access unusually concrete.
DOK Industry Podcast follows the decisions around documentary and animated film as closely as the films themselves. Filmmakers and curators meet moderators from within the field, returning to who defines cinematic standards and how professional structures shape artistic…
One question, 'which standards?', makes your next film festival program look a little less neutral.
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A calm discussion of short films, care, and what cultural exchange still asks of programmers.
The strongest sections return to care, access, and self-care, and to the question of what a cultural worker can still add when aesthetics are already available online.
A careful documentary conversation about community storytelling, family memory, and the work of making films behind the scenes.
Erika Dilde frames the conversation around a practical question: how BIPOC filmmakers can uplift the stories of the communities they come from.
Two Indian documentaries and a clear case for walking as a method of inquiry.
Two Indian documentary projects, The Hunt for Veerappan and Women of My Billion, give the discussion its shape, while Sunil Sardarangani keeps returning to walking as both a way of moving and a way of seeing.
A patient look at trust and point of view across two Indian documentaries.
Season five opens with The Hunt for Veerappan and Women of My Billion, then moves into the slower work of earning a story. The most affecting stretch comes when Apurva Bakshi talks about trust, about Muthu Lakshmi taking two and a half years to come on board, and about holding…
A grounded look at showing films where audiences already are.
The episode follows Lucy Mukherjee as she steers a conversation about alternative distribution, with the core question staying clear throughout: where people already gather, and how films can meet them there.
A film project opens into a clear-eyed debate about culture, memory, and power.
A discussion that begins with Nora soon opens into the harder realities of making politically charged films in Peru. Claudia Chavez and Christy Maladik-Jainey talk through Searching for Nora, still tentatively titled, while also getting into funding, censorship, and the…
A practical look at spatial audio as a tool for presence and clear communication.
The episode treats spatial audio as a working part of presence in XR, not as a decorative extra. Weronika Lewandowska and Oliver Cuddle keep the focus on collaboration, cognitive load, microphones, attention, and the choices that make a virtual room usable rather than simply…
A reflective XR conversation about young audiences, institutions, and what immersion now means.
The episode opens with community voices, then moves into a conversation with Weronika Lewandowska, Dana Melawer, curator of the Neulands exhibition, and Prodromos Tsiavos, head of digital development and innovation at the Onassis Foundation.
Screenwriting craft, career reality, and working process.
Indie film, minus the fantasy fog.
Creative origin stories with sharper edges.
Practical craft talks for working creators.
Season six opens with Sana Yuhul in conversation with filmmaker Saleh Kashafi and curator Eitor Augusto.
This episode features Judy Kibinge and founding filmmakers Tony Kamau, Maya Leko, and Zippy Kimundu discussing the origins and impact of DocuBox, East Africa's first independent documentary film fund.
This episode explores decolonising cinema aesthetics, featuring conversations with filmmaker Rahma Chow, editor Nils Bay-Hanarsson, and guests Samia Labadi and Nazihah Arabi.
DOK Industry Podcast’s Next Gen XR Rising centers on how young audiences are already shaping XR through games, school visits, and home VR use.
The episode opens with introductions and visual descriptions from both speakers.
Three programmers sit down to think through how short films move across cultures when politics are already in the room.
A panel discussion from DocLeipzig Festival explores the future sustainability of the XR and immersive arts industry.
In-depth conversation about United Screens, a research and exhibition project mapping alternative distribution infrastructure for independent filmmakers in the Global South.
The podcast opens with season five's introduction before Meena Namji takes the microphone and guides a conversation on radical and oppositional film.
This episode features producer Apurva Bakshi and activist Srishti Bakshi discussing the documentary 'Women of My Billion', which explores gender-based violence in India.
Toni Bell welcomes Claudia Chavez and Christy Maladik-Jainey to talk about their film project, tentatively titled *Searching for Nora*.
The episode centers on Black women in leadership and how that presence changes what a creative documentary and animated film industry notices, supports, and values.
This episode features conversations with filmmaker Chloe Abrahams about her documentary The Taste of Mango, exploring family trauma and storytelling, and with the creators of The Body Politic, discussing violence as a public health issue and community healing in Baltimore.
Sunil Sardarangani moderates a conversation with Apurva Bakshi and director Selvamani Selvaraj about The Hunt for Veerappan, the Netflix documentary series about the 20-year manhunt and the Amazon Prime feature Women of My Billion.
Weronika Lewandowska opens the DocExchangeXR annual podcast edition from Leipzig and frames the conference around shaping sound in XR and spatial audio.