Tag Archives: documentary

Ep 54 ACCIDENTAL COURTESY with director Matt Ornstein

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast EP 54 ACCIDENTAL COURTESY with director Matt Ornstein This episode of Sup Doc is sponsored by GUIDEDOC! George visits the home of the filmmaker Matt Ornstein in Silver Lake. Matt made one of 2016’s most fascinating, complex portraits, ACCIDENTAL COURTESY: Daryl Davis, Race and America. Daryl Davis is an African-American musician who ends up confronting …

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Ep 53 SIRIUS with comedian Ryan Singer

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast EP 53 SIRIUS with comedian Ryan Singer   The very funny and informative Ryan Singer joined us to talk about Sirius, one of the most successful crowdfunded documentaries in history. The film explores an ongoing grassroots movement to get the U.S. government to reveal what it reportedly knows about UFOs, extraterrestrials and the availability of …

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Ep 52 TICKLED with YACHT

Sup Doc A Documentary Film Podcast EP 52 TICKLED with the band YACHT (Jona Bechtolt and Claire Evans) Paco and George sat down with the band YACHT to talk about the delightfully topsy-turvy doc Tickled. Tickled is a 2016 documentary about “competitive endurance tickling” and videos featuring it, and the practices of those producing the videos, directed by David Farrier …

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EP 51 THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE with comedian Henry Phillips

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast EP 51 THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE with comedian Henry Phillips On Episode 51 George Chen and Paco Romane talk with comedian/musician Henry Phillips about his favorite doc THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE! Released in 2002, The Kid Stays in the Picture uses Evans’ narration interspersed mostly with photographs from Evans’ life as …

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Ep 50 MEMORIAL DAY 2000 live at SF Sketchfest 2017

Presented by SF Sketchfest, the San Francisco Comedy Festival! Sup Doc RETURNS to SF Sketchfest! With hosts Paco Romane and George Chen for a special FREE event with panelist Cory Sklar (Illogical Contraption), Emily Van Dyke, and Frankie G (Killing My Lobster, Narcissists Anonymous) and Melissa McQueen (The World Famous Comedy Store, Hollywood Improv Comedy Club) Last year’s Sketchfest show …

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Ep 49 BARRY with screenwriter Adam Mansbach

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast EP 49 BARRY with screenwriter Adam Mansbach On this episode of Sup Doc Paco sits down with writer Adam Mansbach who wrote the biopic “Barry” currently available on Netflix. Barry is set in the year 1981 and focuses on the future president Barack Obama as he struggles to figure out his identity as he moves …

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Ep 46 HOME MOVIE with comedian Amy Miller

Sup Doc: Comedian Amy Miller

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast Ep 46 HOME MOVIE with comedian Amy Miler Sup Doc Ep46: Hosts George Chen and Paco Romane sit down with comedian Amy Miller (Last Comic Standing, Kill Rock Stars) to discuss the 2001 doc Home Movie a witty look at five unusual homes that have been designed to match the ideas and eccentricities of …

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Ep 45 WEINER with comedian/writer Megan Koester

Megan Koester on Sup Doc Weiner

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast Sup Doc Ep 45 WEINER with comedian and VICE writer Megan Koester On episode 45 of Sup Doc Paco and George talk with VICE writer and comedian Megan Koester about the 2016 documentary Weiner. This documentary centers around ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner as he navigates the fallout (his wife, Huma Abedin, recently separated from him) …

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Ep 44 YOU DON’T KNOW BO JACKSON with comedian Billy Wayne Davis

Billy Wane Davis on Sup Doc

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast Sup Doc Ep 44: You Don’t Know Bo: The Legend of Bo Jackson with comedian Billy Wayne Davis On Ep 44 Paco and George sit down with comedian Billy Wayne Davis. You may have seen Billy Wayne on Last Comic Standing or heard him on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF. We talk to BW’s about his …

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Ep 43 HELL HOUSE with MTV writer Molly Lambert

Writer Molly Lambert on Sup Doc

Sup Doc: A Documentary Film Podcast Sup Doc Ep 43: Hell House with MTV writer Molly Lambert Paco and George talk with MTV writer/podcaster Molly Lambert. They get into ghosts, The Black Dahlia, music, Christianity, and dig deep into the doc Hell House! Hell House is a 2001 documentary that was directed by George Ratliff that focuses on the idea of a …

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