Doc Podcast: Live from the TCFF

"Documentary Podcast" cohost Steve Byrne (left) speaks with doc programmer Thom Powers at the 2014 Traverse City Film Festival.The most recent edition of “The Documentary Podcast” for the Detroit Free Press features a special report on location at the Traverse City Film Festival. Listen below to hear interviews with TCFF moderator and leading documentary programmer Thom Powers (Toronto International Film Festival, Doc NYC), TCFF Founders Prize Special Award winner James Spione (“Silenced”), and director Orlando von Einsiedel (“Virunga”).

Hosts Steve Byrne and Kathy Kieliszewski also discuss the magic of the TCFF, some of their favorite films they saw at the festival, and other highlights from a week spent in movie lovers paradise.