Festival Season Begins

The IMI team is shifting into festival mode! To kick things off, the third cohort of IMI Award Winners will be announced July 11th! If you haven’t already, check out the speeches from last year’s award winners, and we’ll have many more announcements about IMI Fest next month.

This month, we had the honor of co-hosting the closing night party for Tribeca Audio along with the podcast pioneer Radiolab. At the party, Radiolab shared a trailer for their new series “Swimming with Shadows: A Radiolab Week of Sharks” in honor of the 50th anniversary of Jaws. Radiolab was the first podcast that our founders Stuart and Elaine supported even prior to founding IMI, so partnering with them again felt like a full-circle moment.

The head of Tribeca Audio, Davy Gardner, has made the festival a celebration of narrative storytelling and independent audio work, asserting that podcasts are an art form that deserve a seat at the table. We could not agree more. We want to say thank you to Davy for the work he does for the audio community, for welcoming IMI into the festival circuit, and for sharing his experience at IMI Fest 2024 with the crowd!

This month was also the end of season 1 of Show Me Your Algorithm, with the season finale featuring creator and filmmaker Elle Mills. Check it out and stay tuned for season 2 coming soon!

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Smiti Nathan has started a video podcast for curious minds who love learning about the past.	Xyla Foxlin's first video of her series, Blueprint to Flight: Building an Airplane from Scratch is out.
Our June Staff Picks are on our website! Scroll to the bottom to see what we watched this month!	Four years in the making, Destin Sandlin's Smarter Scrubber is out now.