Doc Walks
by Ben Steinbauer & Keith Maitland
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EP077 - You Don't Know How to Feel
EP077 - You Don't Know How to Feel
About this podcast
Documentary filmmakers, Keith Maitland (TOWER, DEAR MR BRODY) and Ben Steinbauer (WINNEBAGO MAN, CHOP & STEELE), host this lively walk & talk podcast featuring conversations with today's best non-fiction storytellers. DocWalks takes the conversation to the street (or nature trail), offering candid insight into the art & industry of documentary filmmaking for an audience of emerging filmmakers and doc-lovers alike.
Episodes
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- EP077 - You Don't Know How to Feel · 20 min · Season 1 Episode 77Keith and his wife caught it on a Tuesday night date night. Ben and his wife skipped work to see it in a theater, in the middle of the day. When was the last time a three-hour…
- EP076 - Life and Death w/ Brett Morgen · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 76A seasoned mainstay of the LA documentary scene, Brett Morgen takes Keith for a walk around his charming Rustic Canyon neighborhood. Brett is the filmmaker behind major releases…
- EP075 - Naked And Vulnerable W/ Ben & Keith · 1 h 9 min · Season 1 Episode 75Episode 75, the Diamond Jubilee, and it's just the two of us. With no guest, with no safety net or buffer, this one finds Ben feeling both naked and vulnerable. But Keith is…
- EP074 - The Treatiest of Treatises w/ Jeremy Workman · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 74If you're looking for a beer and a sandwich you're in the right place… welcome to Red Hook, Brooklyn, home of dock workers and DocWalkers—meet Jeremy Workman. Jeremy is the…
- EP073 - No One's Comin' To Save You w/ Dana Reilly · 1 h 10 min · Season 1 Episode 73You may remember Dana Reilly, New York filmmaker, and UT Radio-TV-Film alum from our walk around Main Street at Sundance this year. Well, she's back in Austin to present her…
- EP072 - Not Since Walt Disney… w/ Geeta Gandbhir · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 72It's a rainy day in Brooklyn, but it sure felt like the sun was shining—guess that's just the effect that Geeta Gandbhir has on those around her! Geeta is having a big year—she…
- EP071 - Mediation Required w/ Andrew & Melissa Shea · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 71We hit the trail with Austin's own husband-and-wife filmmaking duo, Andrew and Melissa Shea. They've been married for nearly 30 years, partnered on every film they've ever made…
- EP070 - Don't Go Chasing the Truth w/ Jannike Åhlund · 48 min · Season 1 Episode 70Welcome to the first-ever Doc Walks International! Keith treks to Sweden, to the tiny Baltic island of Fårö, where INGMAR BERGMAN built his creative base. Keith's there shooting…
- EP069 - Good Cop, Bad Cop w/ Sam Wainwright Douglas & David Hartstein · 45 min · Season 1 Episode 69We walk Hyde Park with longtime friends Sam Wainwright Douglas and David Hartstein — the co-directing team behind Blue Suitcase — and it is not a short story. Turns out it…
- EP068 - You Must Be Weird Guys w/ Chris Metzler · 1 h 7 min · Season 1 Episode 68Keith goes coastal this week, walking the foggy cliffs of Point Lobos, California with Bay Area filmmaker Chris Metzler—co-director of PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA…
- EP067 - Flip On the Porch Light w/ Margaret Brown · 1 h 8 min · Season 1 Episode 67We walk with Margaret Brown, director of BE HERE TO LOVE ME, THE ORDER OF MYTHS, THE GREAT INVISIBLE, DESCENDANT, and THE YOGURT SHOP MURDERS, and winner of Peabody, Independent…
- EP066 - Tale as Old as Time w/ Gene Gallerano · 1 h 4 min · Season 1 Episode 66Keith walks Hyde Park—with a detour into & across the Hancock Golf Course—with LA's Gene Gallerano. An East Dallas kid raised on the humanities and Poor David's Pub, Gene's an…
- EP065 - I Don't Get Served My Own Movies w/ Penny Lane · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 65We were supposed to be in Central Park. We are not. It's raining so we're in Penny Lane's apartment, shoes off, with a cat named Luna auditioning for the role of "the action,"…
- EP064 - You Don't Need a Restaurant to Eat w/ David Liu · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 64Ben walks the lake at Mueller with David Liu—director, editor, producer, composer, and until 2024, an AI engineer. Fifteen-plus years in hardware, software, product design and…
- EP063 - The Edge of Psychosis w/ Hisko Hulsing · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 63When Hisko Hulsing is in town, you grab your camera & mic, and hit the trail, ready to court controversy with the best oil-painting animator this side of the Netherlands. Hisko…
- EP062: Back To The Root w/ David Alvarado · 1 h 12 min · Season 1 Episode 62Spark up a big cigar with Ben and filmmaker David Alvarado in honor of Luis Valdez, the central figure in Alvarado's new film AMERICAN PACHUCO (playing Austin's Cine Las…
- EP061 - Log Off and Hang Out w/ Lauren Hough · 1 h 1 min · Season 1 Episode 61We walk Austin's Boggy Creek Trail with acclaimed memoirist Lauren Hough — from a childhood spent in a cult to Air Force vet to ex-cable technician; and now, she's the writer…
- EP060 - Angels Watching Over Me w/ Ya'Ke Smith · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 60Take a spirited walk though East Austin, Black History, and the Texas State Cemetery with filmmaker, educator, and self-described activist-artist Ya'Ke Smith—on Juneteenth week…
- EP059 - Don't Listen to Me About Anything w/ Isaac Gale · 41 min · Season 1 Episode 59We hit the streets of South by Southwest with Isaac Gale—director, artist, and one-half of the Minneapolis noise outfit Marijuana Deathsquads, in town to play the fest with his…
- EP058 - The Jellyfish Died w/ Juli Berwald · 1 h 11 min · Season 1 Episode 58Meet Juli Berwald—a marine biologist turned science writer and the author of an invertebrate page-turner—she's the founder of a coral-reef nonprofit in Honduras, aaaaand she's…
