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Do It Yourself Oscar Campaign

Hosts of Deadline and Nō Studios’s Doc Talk podcast, writer-director John Ridley and Deadline’s documentary editor Matt Carey, speak with Diane Becker (producer, King Coal), Joe Peeler (co-director, Bad Press), and Keith Wilson (producer, Joonam) on their innovative approach to Oscar awards campaigning, with their DIY FYC (Do It Yourself For Your Consideration) strategy. Becker, Peeler, and Wilson discuss the distribution challenges their documentaries faced following premieres at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and how they banded together to present their films to Oscar voters.