Catherine Bray | Writer, director, producer & commissioner

On this episode of The Doc Exchange, June Jennings is joined by Catherine Bray, a commissioner, producer and writer-director, whose most recent credits include two hour-long essays films for BBC Arts: Meet the Family and Guilt-Free Pleasures. Together they interrogate the theme of performance, constructed reality and fabrication and how this can alter our sense of what ‘counts’ as documentary.Welcome to The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast, where your favourite non-fiction filmmakers reveal the documentaries that have had a lasting impact on their lives and careers. ***SHOW NOTESFraud (2016, Dean Fleischer-Camp) // Watch on Kanopy in the US Under the Sun (2016, Vitaly Mansky) // Watch on Ovid in the USCasting JonBenet (2017, Kitty Green) // Watch on Netflix How To with John Wilson (2020, John Wilson) // Watch on HBO Max Guilt-Free Pleasures (2020, Catherine Bray) // Watch on BBC iPlayer in the UKMeet the Family (2020, Catherine Bray) // Watch on BBC iPlayer in the UKFish Story (2017, Charlie Shackleton) // Watch on VimeoLasting Marks (2018, Charlie Shackleton) // Watch on VimeoBeyond Clueless (2014, Charlie Shackleton) // Watch on Vimeo***The Doc Exchange: A Real Stories Podcast is a Little Dot Studios production in partnership with The Grierson Trust.Hosted by June JenningsProduced by Nicole Davis and Annie HughesExecutive produced by Paul WoolfMusic by Dusty DecksEdited by Content is QueenArtwork by Nash Kasic Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.