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168: Vinay Shukla on "While We Watched"
"While We Watched" profiles the Indian TV journalist Ravish Kumar during a period when he's under extreme pressure including death threats for trying to do his job.
167: Sébastien Lifshitz on "Casa Susanna"
"Casa Susanna," playing on PBS Passport, tells the secret history of a Catskills resort in the late 1950s and early 1960s that was a safe haven for transgender expression.
166: Maite Alberdi on "The Eternal Memory"
Maite Alberdi's new work is "The Eternal Memory." She follows the journalist Augusto Gongora and his wife Paulina Urrutia as they cope with Augustos experience with Alzheimers syndrome.
165: D. Smith on "Kokomo City"
First time filmmaker D. Smith had a successful career as a Grammy-nominated music producer. But when she came out as transgender, she was effectively blacklisted from that industry.
164: Asif Kapadia on Highs and Lows
In this wide-ranging conversation, Asif Kapadia speaks about the setbacks and breakthroughs in his career.
163: John Leguizamo Does America
Actor and writer John Leguizamo now hosts the series "Leguizamo Does America" that explores Latin American communities across the country.
162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619 Project" and "Cassandro"
Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams has a bounty of new releases this year.
161: Elvis Mitchell on "Is That Black Enough for You?!?"
Elvis Mitchell on his ocumentary "Is That Black Enough for You?!?", Detroit and why he left his job as a New York Times film critic.
160: Inside "Couples Therapy"
Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews "Couples Therapy" star Dr. Orna Guralnik along with co-creators Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg and one of its directors Pax Wasserman.
159: Lisa Cortés on "Little Richard: I Am Everything"
Lisa Corts' documentary "Little Richard: I Am Everything" that helps to rewrite the history of rock and roll.