Hollywood's Most Dangerous Documentarians on Death Threats, Scientology and "Staging" Reality
"One thing I've learned is that the person who wants to hurt you does not send you a note in advance," says Michael Moore, as he gathers with five other outspoken top directors — Alex Gibney, Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi — for THR's Documentary Roundtable.
This story first appeared in a special awards season issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
What is truth? That question was at the center of a heated debate among some of the most admired documentary filmmakers of our times during a roundtable that took place Oct. 29 in New York City — and their answers weren't always what you might expect. Truth and facts aren't necessarily the same thing, one argued; and "staging" reality might be OK in the service of a deeper truth, said another. Oscar winners Alex Gibney, 62 (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine), and Michael Moore, 61 (Where to Invade Next, which looks at progressivism abroad), were joined by Amy Berg, 45 (Janis: Little Girl Blue, a Joplin biography, and Prophet's Prey, an investigation into the Warren Jeffs cult), Kirby Dick, 63 (The Hunting Ground, about campus rape), Liz Garbus, 45 (What Happened, Miss Simone?, which traces Nina Simone's career), and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 36 (Meru, a mountaineering thriller), in a conversation that ranged historically from Shakespeare's Henry V to Margaret Thatcher and geographically from a Himalayan mountain range to the halls of the Pentagon.
More at link - this is a tease for the full round table that will be airing on the Sundance Chanel soon. Watch the video clips - Scientology is mentioned several times. Wanna bet DM will be watching it? Mimsey
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Scientology, death threats and the Hollywood Reporter
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"One thing I've learned is that the person who wants to hurt you does not send you a note in advance," says Michael Moore, as he gathers with five other outspoken top directors — Alex Gibney, Amy Berg, Kirby Dick, Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi — for THR's Documentary Roundtable.
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This story first appeared in a special awards season issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
What is truth? That question was at the center of a heated debate among some of the most admired documentary filmmakers of our times during a roundtable that took place Oct. 29 in New York City — and their answers weren't always what you might expect. Truth and facts aren't necessarily the same thing, one argued; and "staging" reality might be OK in the service of a deeper truth, said another. Oscar winners Alex Gibney, 62 (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief and Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine), and Michael Moore, 61 (Where to Invade Next, which looks at progressivism abroad), were joined by Amy Berg, 45 (Janis: Little Girl Blue, a Joplin biography, and Prophet's Prey, an investigation into the Warren Jeffs cult), Kirby Dick, 63 (The Hunting Ground, about campus rape), Liz Garbus, 45 (What Happened, Miss Simone?, which traces Nina Simone's career), and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, 36 (Meru, a mountaineering thriller), in a conversation that ranged historically from Shakespeare's Henry V to Margaret Thatcher and geographically from a Himalayan mountain range to the halls of the Pentagon.
More at link - this is a tease for the full round table that will be airing on the Sundance Chanel soon. Watch the video clips - Scientology is mentioned several times. Wanna bet DM will be watching it? Mimsey
http://ift.tt/1SN6lsJ
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