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Doc Talk Podcast Debates Oscar Nominations, Heads To Sundance For Documentary ‘Ghost’ Story And More

The scene at this year's Sundance Film Festival When the Oscar nominations were announced last week there was much to celebrate for the Sundance Film Festival documentary programmers. The five nominees for Best Documentary Feature all premiered at last January’s Sundance, proving again that the festival remains the most important launching pad for awards-seeking nonfiction films. On today’s episode of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast, hosts John Ridley and Matt Carey parse the nominees, highlighting the biggest surprises and the biggest snubs (among the notable omissions — two previous Oscar winners coming up short).

Sundance Film Festival 2026

Sundance Film Festival 2026

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Key Highlights

  • Related Stories News Oscar Nominations 2026: ‘Sinners’ Leads With Record 16, ‘One Battle’ Next – The Complete List Podcast From ‘Joybubbles’ To High-Altitude Adventures, Doc Talk Previews Sundance Nonfiction Lineup With Programmers Basil Tsiokos & Sudeep Sharma With Sundance 2026 at about its midpoint, we also talk with the makers of two of the most interesting documentaries in the festival: Valerie Veatch, director of Ghost in the Machine, and Rachael J.
  • Morrison, director of Joybubbles.
  • Watch on Deadline Both films explore technology, but from different eras.
  • Ghost in the Machine probes the biases and power dynamics that lurk within AI.
  • The Sundance program writes of the film, “Director Valerie Veatch returns to the Sundance Film Festival to navigate the torrential rapids of artificial intelligence with this mind-expanding investigative essay documentary that excavates the philosophical, cultural, and political forces driving the global AI boom.” Joybubbles, meanwhile, examines old-school landline telephone tech.
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