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This week's two-pronged episode of the Film Comment podcast digs into a varied slate of contemporary filmmaking. First, from the New York Film Festival, FC columnist and Museum of the Moving Image Associate Curator Eric Hynes speaks to Raoul Peck, whose vital new film I Am Not Your Negro opens this Friday, February 3 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Peck explains his approach to James Baldwin's unfinished manuscript Remember This House, his use of archival footage to create arresting counterpoints, his experience rehearsing Samuel L. Jackson to deliver Baldwin's words, and his personal reflections on the author's work.\n\nOur podcast then flashes forward for a final dispatch from the Sundance Film Festival, a live discussion from the Kickstarter House featuring two directors the magazine has supported who have made films with the help of crowdfunding: Laura Dunn, who co-directed Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (shown in Sundance\u2019s Spotlight section), and Dustin Guy Defa, who directed Person to Person (in the NEXT section). Dunn\u2019s prior feature, The Unforeseen (2007), was deemed \u201cbest film of the festival, hands down\u201d in these pages, and so we were eager to see where she took Look & See, a Kickstarter project. Likewise, Defa\u2019s feature Bad Fever, another Kickstarter alum, received the magazine\u2019s high praise (\u201ca small-scale, painfully candid examination of the connection between loneliness and creativity\u201d\u2014which is a good thing), and so expectations were high for his latest, Person to Person.