The MUBI Podcast is an audio documentary series about great cinema–how it happens and how it brings people together. Each season, host Rico Gagliano deep dives into a different facet of the film world, from history making cinemas to legendary needle drops.
It has been twice named Best Arts or Entertainment Podcast in the L.A. Press Club’s 2022 and 2023 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards. It was nominated for a 2022 Webby Award for Best Individual Podcast Episode - TV or Film, and for Best New Podcast at the 2022 British Podcast Awards. Most recently, the series was nominated for Best Entertainment Show and Best Scriptwriting (Non-fiction) at the 2023 Ambie Awards.
Anna Bogutskaya is a writer, film programmer, and podcaster. She writes for BBC Culture, The Guardian, MUBI, The New Statesman, TimeOut, amongst others, and has programmed for BFI, Edinburgh, and Fantastic Fest. She hosts the horror film history podcast The Final Girls and publishes the movie newsletter Admit One. She’s the author of two books on film: Unlikeable Female Characters and Feeding the Monster.
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Podcast host Rico Gagliano (The Wall Street Journal, The Dinner Party Download) has been an audio creator for almost two decades. A graduate of the American Film Institute, he reported around the world for the popular public radio business program "Marketplace," before co-creating, co-hosting, and co-producing "The Dinner Party Download"— an arts-and-culture podcast and radio show that was broadcast on nearly 200 public radio stations and downloaded over 30 million times. His award-winning interviews for the show included conversations with legendary filmmakers from D.A. Pennebaker to Jordan Peele. He went on to host, produce, write and story edit top 10 podcasts for Wondery, Pushkin Industries, Crooked Media, and Focus Features. Rico writes frequently about travel for The Wall Street Journal.