Dec 23, 2020
In this bonus episode, cohosts Bart and Chris revisit their
favorite documentaries of 2020, and then invite, each in turn, six
guest hosts from the past year to chat about their own favorites.
Those guests, in alphabetical order, are: Hannah Buchdahl, Sandie
Angulo Chen, Leslie
Combemale, Roxana
Hadadi, Lisa
Sanchelo and Debra
Zimmerman. Chris and Bart each gave a Top 10, while our guests
each listed a Top 5. Those lists follows, below, in the order given
on the episode. Enjoy, and see you in 2021!
Chris’s List (in alphabetical order):
Bart’s List (in alphabetical order):
Sandie’s List (in alphabetical order):
Hannah’s List (in order of preference):
- Collective
(Alexander Nanau)
- Tie: John Lewis: Good
Trouble (Dawn Porter) / The Way I See
It (Dawn Porter)
- Jimmy Carter:
Rock & Roll President (Mary Wharton)
- Tie: The Dissident (Bryan Fogel) /
A Thousand
Cuts (Ramona Diaz)
-
Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You (Thom Zimny)
Debra’s List (in order of preference):
- Collective
(Alexander Nanau)
- Tie: Belly of the Beast
(Erika Cohn) / Coded
Bias (Shalini Kantayya)
- Capital in the
Twenty-First Century (Justin Pemberton)
- Tie: Dick Johnson Is
Dead (Kirsten Johnson) /
Time (Garrett Bradley)
- The Earth
Is Blue as an Orange (Iryna Tsilyk) – not yet
released
Roxana’s List (in alphabetical order):
Lisa’s List (in alphabetical order):
Leslie’s List (in order of
preference):
- Crip
Camp (James Lebrecht/Nicole Newnham)
- Welcome to
Chechnya (David France)
- The Painter
and the Thief (Benjamin Ree)
- Boys
State (Amanda McBaine/Jesse Moss)
- John Lewis:
Good Trouble (Dawn Porter)
Other Films Mentioned:
Timestamps:
- 00:52 – Intro + Chris and Bart’s respective Top 10 lists
- 11:31 – Sandie Angulo Chen’s top docs of the year
- 18:02 – Hannah Buchdahl’s top docs of the year
- 23:58 – Debra Zimmerman’s top docs of the year
- 30:03 – Roxana Hadadi’s top docs of the year
- 37:11 – Lisa Sanchelo’s top docs of the year
- 43:42 – Leslie Combemale’s top docs of the year
- 50:51 – Closing + End credits
Website/Email:
www.fogoftruth.com
disinfo@fogoftruth.com
Credits:
Artwork by Hilary Campbell
Intro music by Jeremiah Moore
Transitional music by BELLS≥ (thanks to Christopher
Ernst)
Editing and shownotes by Christopher Llewellyn Reed