Pure Nonfiction: Inside Documentary Film

Hear the world's top storytellers talk all things documentary film. Host Thom Powers is as well-connected as it gets in this world as a documentary curator for TIFF and other renowned festivals. He wrote the book “Mondo Documentary” that is “required read

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165: D. Smith on "Kokomo City"

Posted August 10, 2023 • 00:39:29

No shade to Barbie, but our favorite summer film is "Kokomo City" that won audience prizes in Sundance and Berlin for its raw and raucous profile of...

164: Asif Kapadia on Highs and Lows

Posted June 22, 2023 • 00:37:35

Asif Kapadia has won renown for his biographical portraits in "Senna", "Diego Maradona" and the Oscar-winning "Amy". In this wide-ranging conversation,...

163: John Leguizamo Does America

Posted June 8, 2023 • 00:32:12

John Leguizamo has a versatile writing and acting career from Broadway to Hollywood. Now he hosts the series "Leguizamo Does America" that explores...

162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619 Project" and "Cassandro"

Posted May 30, 2023 • 00:43:25

Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams has a bounty of new releases this year. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviewed Williams at the CPH:DOX...

161: Elvis Mitchell on "Is That Black Enough for You?!?"

Posted May 18, 2023 • 00:36:15

Elvis Mitchell explores the flourishing of American Black cinema from 1968 to 1978 in the documentary "Is That Black Enough for You?!?" (Netflix). Pure...