Spotlighting Peabody Award Nominees
We are highlighting some of our favorite conversations with the 2021 Peabody Award nominees. Although the Peabody Awards ceremony has been cancelled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, winners will be announced in June and the organization plans to honor them via a virtual event.
[REBROADCAST FROM SEPTEMBER 22, 2020] Directors Lisa Cortés and Liz Garbus talk about the new Amazon Studios documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” which traces the history of voter suppression efforts in America from the earliest days of the republic. The film looks particularly at the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, in which Brian Kemp narrowly beat Stacey Abrams, and the impact that voter suppression can have on election outcomes.
[REBROADCAST FROM JUNE 24, 2020] Directors Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk discuss their new Netflix documentary, “Athlete A,” about Larry Nassar and the abuse scandal that changed gymnastics.
[REBROADCAST FROM JUNE 8, 2020] Producer Stephanie Kariuki and reporter Taylor Hom join us to officially announce their forthcoming Stitcher podcast, Unfinished: Deep South, which explores the 1954 lynching of Isadore Banks. Listen on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher.
[REBROADCAST FROM JUNE 18, 2020] Director Sam Feder joins us to discuss his Netflix documentary "Disclosure," which discusses the history of depictions of trans people in Hollywood throughout the decades.
[REBROADCAST FROM NOVEMBER 3, 2020] Director Rick Rowley joins us to discuss his Showtime documentary, “Kingdom of Silence,” about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
[REBROADCAST FROM JANUARY 26, 2021] Over a year ago, Wuhan, the city in Hubei Province, China where COVID-19 was first documented, went on lockdown. Two anonymous reporters covertly recorded inside a Wuhan hospital, where healthcare workers were too busy to monitor what they were capturing. The resulting documentary, "76 Days," directed by filmmaker Hao Wu and produced by MTV Documentary Films, provides an intimate and dire look inside a hospital as it faced PPE shortages, uncertainty, and an onslaught of patients infected with a virus that, at the time, we knew almost nothing about. Hao Wu joins us to talk about making this film and his experience documenting the genesis of what would, months later, become a global pandemic.
