Lisa Nishimura - Netflix

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The VP of original documentary and comedy programming for the world's leading streaming service discusses how she came to the company when it was still in the DVD-by-mail biz, how docs and comedy have evolved since and the stories behind her most lauded projects — including four doc features ('Chasing Coral', 'Icarus', 'One of Us' and 'Strong Island') and two doc shorts ('Heroin(e)' and 'Ram Dass, Going Home') that have been Oscar-shortlisted this season. But first: Alison Brower, THR's deputy editorial director, joins Scott to discuss her path to journalism, her prior work at women's magazines and THR's coverage of President Trump and Hollywood's sexual misconduct scandal. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 196th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast. the
0:13.0	Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest
0:17.0	today is one of the most intelligent, innovative, and influential people in Hollywood.
0:21.0	She's the vice president of original documentary and
0:24.0	comedy programming at Netflix, meaning she's a primary force behind documentary
0:28.4	features like the Oscar nominated The Square, Verunga, Winter on Fire Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, What Happened Miss Simone, and 13th, as well as this season's Oscar Shortlisted, Chasing Coral, Icarus, One of Us, and Strong Island. Documentary shorts like the Oscar winning white
0:45.0	helmets and this season's Oscar Short listed heroin and Ram Das going home and
0:50.8	documentary series like the Emmy winning Making a Murderer, as well as stand-up
0:55.6	comedy specials like the Emmy-winning Pat and Oswold, talking for clapping, all for a company that
1:00.5	has 109 million subscribers worldwide worldwide making it the world's
1:04.3	dominant streaming platform and her in the eyes of the Hollywood reporter
1:08.1	one of the 100 most powerful women in entertainment Lisa Nishimura.
1:12.0	But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter. and entertainment, Lisa Nishimura.
1:12.6	But first I was joined at the offices of the Hollywood reporter by our deputy editorial
1:16.0	director Allison Brower. Brower started out as a reporter at Ad Week and has since held editorships
1:21.2	of one sort or another at Cosmopolitan, Glammer, Redbook,
1:24.8	O- Magazine, bookish.com, 17, Good Housekeeping, and Dr. Oz The Good Life.
1:29.7	Her first stint at THR was as Special Projects Editor for a chunk of 2013. She then returned in 2014 and has
1:36.7	been Deputy Editorial Director ever since.
1:38.9	Allison, thank you for joining me.
1:40.3	Thanks for having me.
1:41.3	First of all, did I read that you were born in London?
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