John Dower's guest appearances

John Dower

Face2Face with David Peck

KUCI: Film School

Necronomicast

University Seminar on New Media Teaching and Learning

Open: filmmakers talk

Leilani Farha

Erika Cohn

Michael Dominic

Robert Schwentke

Barbara Kopple

Sophie Deraspe

Ryan Suffern

Michele Mitchell

Ciro Guerra

Yung Chang

Geeta Gandbhir

Kathleen Hepburn

Robert Fisk

Louis Superman

Fredrik Gertten

OwlTail

Joining me tonight for a late night conversation is one of the UK's leading documentary directors, John Dower. Just looking over his resume, John has been nominated for and has won numerous awards and accolades for his masterful work. Earlier this year, he delivered the  Netflix hit entitled ‘Sophie: A Murder in West Cork”.  It's an incredible deep dive into one of the most tragic murders in modern Irish history. On HBO Max, you can also explore one of the greatest whodunits in US history with his riviting documentary "The Mystery of DB Cooper. I’m so excited to have as a guest for your listening pleasure, John Dower, on this episode of the Necronomicast! John Dower's Official Site

Joining me tonight for a late night conversation is one of the UK's leading documentary directors, John Dower. Just looking over his resume, John has been nominated for and has won numerous awards and accolades for his masterful work. Earlier this year, he delivered the  Netflix hit entitled ‘Sophie: A Murder in West Cork”.  It's an incredible deep dive into one of the most tragic murders in modern Irish history. On HBO Max, you can also explore one of the greatest whodunits in US history with his riviting documentary "The Mystery of DB Cooper. I’m so excited to have as a guest for your listening pleasure, John Dower, on this episode of the Necronomicast! <a href="https://www.johndower.com" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">John Dower's Official Site</a>

Episode 226 "Murder, Mystery, and Missing Money" The Movies of John Dower

Cinematographer Edgar Dubrovskiy interviews his colleague, an Emmy, Bafta and Sundance-nominated documentary director John Dower. Working with Louis Theroux, chasing DB Cooper and destroying books. An honest chat about the filmmaking career.  John: @halmack7 Edgar/Open: @edgardubrovskiy  ---   Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/openfilmmakerstalk/message

Cinematographer Edgar Dubrovskiy interviews his colleague, an Emmy, Bafta and Sundance-nominated documentary director John Dower. Working with Louis Theroux, chasing DB Cooper and destroying books. An honest chat about the filmmaking career. John: @halmack7 Edgar/Open: @edgardubrovskiy --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/openfilmmakerstalk/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/openfilmmakerstalk/message</a>

Shooting documentaries for Netflix, BBC and HBO. Director John Dower

Louis Theroux

Louis, John and Face2Face host David Peck talk about   Synopsis It’s an absurd truth about the Church of Scientology that one of the world’s most secretive organizations will step angrily out into public view when provoked. This reactiveness is at the core of My Scientology Movie, the cheeky, acclaimed “reverse-investigative” documentary starring British broadcaster/journalist Louis Theroux and directed by John Dower. With the world awash in “exposes” of the neo-religion created by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard – and total denials by the Church itself – My Scientology Movie uses reverse psychology to create a picture of the organization inadvertently painted by its own followers. It starts with a not-unexpected refusal by the Church to cooperate with a documentary. It continues from there with a very public casting exercise by the filmmakers and former Scientology Marty Rathbun, for actors to play real-life figures like church leader David Miscavige and the church’s most famous follower Tom Cruise. They then let gossip and paranoia do the rest, attracting the attention of Scientology’s lawyers, threats from church officials, harassment from “squirrel-busters” meeting them at random locations (at least one such incident went viral online) and phony “documentary crews” that followed Theroux, Dower and Rathbun around. The result is a documentary that doubles down on the story of Scientology. It provides details of its dark side – including the infamous California “Gold Base” facility for wayward Church officials (visited in the movie) and a punishment area called The Hole. And it renders those revelations more plausible by the actual strange and aberrant behavior of followers. “They behaved in ways that were so clearly pathological,” Theroux says of the counter-tactics he recorded. “You would expect them to understand that other people would see this behavior and conclude that this is a religion of lunatics.” “This has always been a Holy Grail project to me,” he says. “I’m attracted to stories of people doing profoundly unusual things for explainable human reasons. Normally, I am invited into the worlds I visit. I had to make the decision to make this one anyway, and to lure them out. “At the heart of it, this is a story about religious fundamentalism, which is a phenomenon that is front and center in our time.” Biography Louis Theroux is a British-American documentary filmmaker, and broadcaster. He is best known for his documentary series, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met..., and his BBC Two specials. His career started in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family, such as his father Paul Theroux and brother Marcel. He works with the BBC producing his documentaries and television series. He has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award for his work. John Dower is one of the Britain's leading documentary directors. His feature Thriller in Manila was in competition at Sundance, BAFTA and EMMY nominated, and won a Grierson and a Peabody Award. Bradley Wiggins – A Year In Yellow was also BAFTA nominated in the best director category. As well as his sporting films he has a keen eye for comedy. His music documentary Live Forever was described by The Guardian as, “Sublime … finds that the truth is stranger and funnier than the myths” and his latest theatrical feature My Scientology Movie praised by The Telegraph as “a giddy, Pythonesque delight”, with Variety calling it “riotously funny”.  ----------   For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit my site here.   With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Louis, John and Face2Face host David Peck talk about Synopsis It’s an absurd truth about the Church of Scientology that one of the world’s most secretive organizations will step angrily out into public view when provoked. This reactiveness is at the core of My Scientology Movie, the cheeky, acclaimed “reverse-investigative” documentary starring British broadcaster/journalist Louis Theroux and directed by John Dower. With the world awash in “exposes” of the neo-religion created by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard – and total denials by the Church itself – My Scientology Movie uses reverse psychology to create a picture of the organization inadvertently painted by its own followers. It starts with a not-unexpected refusal by the Church to cooperate with a documentary. It continues from there with a very public casting exercise by the filmmakers and former Scientology Marty Rathbun, for actors to play real-life figures like church leader David Miscavige and the church’s most famous follower Tom Cruise. They then let gossip and paranoia do the rest, attracting the attention of Scientology’s lawyers, threats from church officials, harassment from “squirrel-busters” meeting them at random locations (at least one such incident went viral online) and phony “documentary crews” that followed Theroux, Dower and Rathbun around. The result is a documentary that doubles down on the story of Scientology. It provides details of its dark side – including the infamous California “Gold Base” facility for wayward Church officials (visited in the movie) and a punishment area called The Hole. And it renders those revelations more plausible by the actual strange and aberrant behavior of followers. “They behaved in ways that were so clearly pathological,” Theroux says of the counter-tactics he recorded. “You would expect them to understand that other people would see this behavior and conclude that this is a religion of lunatics.” “This has always been a Holy Grail project to me,” he says. “I’m attracted to stories of people doing profoundly unusual things for explainable human reasons. Normally, I am invited into the worlds I visit. I had to make the decision to make this one anyway, and to lure them out. “At the heart of it, this is a story about religious fundamentalism, which is a phenomenon that is front and center in our time.” Biography Louis Theroux is a British-American documentary filmmaker, and broadcaster. He is best known for his documentary series, including Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, When Louis Met..., and his BBC Two specials. His career started in journalism and bears influences of notable writers in his family, such as his father Paul Theroux and brother Marcel. He works with the BBC producing his documentaries and television series. He has received two British Academy Television Awards and a Royal Television Society Television Award for his work. John Dower is one of the Britain's leading documentary directors. His feature Thriller in Manila was in competition at Sundance, BAFTA and EMMY nominated, and won a Grierson and a Peabody Award. Bradley Wiggins – A Year In Yellow was also BAFTA nominated in the best director category. As well as his sporting films he has a keen eye for comedy. His music documentary Live Forever was described by The Guardian as, “Sublime … finds that the truth is stranger and funnier than the myths” and his latest theatrical feature My Scientology Movie praised by The Telegraph as “a giddy, Pythonesque delight”, with Variety calling it “riotously funny”. ---------- For more information about my podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit <a href="http://www.davidpecklive.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">my site here</a>. With thanks to producer Josh Snethlage and <a href="http://mixedmediasound.ca/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mixed Media Sound</a>. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Louis Theroux and John Dower

John Dower: MIT's Visualizing Cultures (March 20, 2008)