Rough Cut

The Video Consortium

Conversations with documentary filmmakers and video journalists about their creative process—successes, failures, and what they’ve learned along the way. Created by the global filmmaking collective The Video Consortium, Rough Cut is a guide to navigating today’s ever-changing media landscape.

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Rough Cut

Episodes (80)

Aug 4th How to Go Viral: Takeaways from the Mamdani campaign, Subway Takes & More
Jun 2nd Changing the Frame: Equity, Empathy, and the Global Documentary Culture
May 5th A Mile From Home: Reporting in Minneapolis with Katie G. Nelson

Rough Cut

Aug 4, 2026
36¾ minutes
24 MB

On this episode of Rough Cut, VC Executive Director, Sky Dylan-Robbins, talks with filmmaker Anthony DiMieri about his unconventional path across nonfiction, fiction, and political campaigns. They discuss Anthony's projects, including Subway Takes and Keep the Meter Running, which blend documentary storytelling, comedy, and social media to reach audiences where they are, as well as his iconic Melted Solids collaboration with Debbie Saslow on the viral social videos for Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign. Anthony shares his thoughts on the future of filmmaking, vertical versus horizontal video, building audiences online, and why community might be the antidote to nihilism. <...

Rough Cut

How to Go Viral: Takeaways from the Mamdani campaign, Subway Takes & More

The Video Consortium

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