
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 ... more
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 63 | Founded | a year ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | Film InterviewsTV & Film | |||

Meet 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 producing her first doc. Throughout our waterfront walk at Ladybird Lake J... more
We hit the boardwalk with Luke Korem—the Emmy-winning documentary director behind DEALT, MILLI VANILLI, and ACTION—and somewhere between a guy blasting EDM off a portable speaker and the bats under the bridge, Luke hands us a filmmaking philosophy wo... more
Barlow Jacobs says: Walk to the Next Block.. easy to say when you're sitting there, not-walking on DocWalks. It's day three of the AFS Doc Intensive, and we close out our run in the room for a sit-down with actor-turned-documentarian Barlow Jacobs—a ... more
Alisa Payne cannot be stopped… certainly not by a little rain. When the downpour chases us indoors, we're lucky enough to post up in a cozy podcast studio at Austin Public—the public-access station where, Alex Jones got his start—and the home to the ... more
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Thanks to these self-described mid-career filmmakers and burgeoning podcasters for creating the podcast I have been craving for years. Keith Maitland and Ben Steinbauer are consummate storytellers, weaving audio doc style motifs and observational cinema flashes into the concept of well…walking and talking about documentaries. If ever it feels like the podcast is veering into self-indulgence or ‘splaining, the hosts deftly steer us back to the topic at hand or - during more satisfying moments - ... more
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Walk-and-talk conversations with prominent non-fiction storytellers that blend on-location fieldwork, studio-style craft chats, and behind-the-scenes business realities. Episodes cover topics like long-term documentary development, funding, collaboration, ethics, festival dynamics, and the evolving nonfiction landscape, often anchored by the hosts' practical, street-level storytelling approach. Notable elements include on-site discussions (e.g., walks through cities or at festivals), a focus on process and mentorship, and a tendency to spotlight independent projects, festival programming, and industry shifts in a candid, approachable manner.
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Recent guests on Doc Walks include:
1. Barlow Jacobs
2. Alisa Payne
3. Pete Muller
4. Bradley Jackson
5. Jena Friedman
6. Bryan Storkel
7. Berndt Mader
8. Sharon Liese
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