Martina Radwan & Ruchi Mital

EPISODE 103: Martina Radwan, a German/Syrian, based in New York City more than two decades, is award-winning cinematographer and filmmaker. “Saving Face,” the 2012 Academy Award Winner for Short Documentary and Emmy winner, earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Cinematography in 2013. Her recent work includes Food & Country, Boys State, Inventing Tomorrow, The Final Year and more. Martina has directed two award winning shorts, Spring In Awe and Aliens Among US. Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow is her first feature length film as director. tomorrow3-doc.comRuchi Mital is an independent filmmaker with a creative writing and social justice background. She has been producing documentaries for over a decade and is the Foundress of production company Solani Media. Selected works include Emmy winner We Could Be King; HBO series, The Case Against Adnan Syed; global mental health series, The Me You Can't See (Apple TV+); and hybrid doc This World is Not My Own (SXSW 2023), about which Ruchi also authored an essay in the NYT Critics Pick Really Free: The Radical Art of Nellie Mae Rowe. Most recently she produced the series Encounters for Netflix, and Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow with director Martina Radwan (DOCNYC 2023). Ruchi is a member of DOCNYC’s 40 Under 40 list of emerging non-fiction talents. She has served as a filmmaking mentor through the 2021 Sundance Producer’s Intensive and 2022 DOCNYC Storytelling Incubator. Contact us: makingsoundpodcast.comFollow on Instagram: @makingsoundpodcastFollow on Threads: @jannkloseJoin our Facebook GroupPlease support the show with a donation, thank you for listening!