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Mo Scarpelli

filmmaker and documentary director/producer

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Zack Canepari & Drea Cooper's "California Is A Place" showed me how independent doc shorts for online were possible, and also that they could be quirky, stylized and emotionally resonant. This, along with MediaStorm's short multimedia pieces, opened my world to that wonderful blurry space between film + journalism on the web.

Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg, She Does questionnaire/interview page, She Does Podcast, 2015 source ↗

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Brian Koppelman Screenwriter and showrunner; co-writer of Rounders, co-creator of Billions
There are three. The documentary about Apocalypse Now that Francis Ford Coppola’s wife made is amazing. You should find it and watch it because Apocalypse Now, which is clearly more and more of a masterpiece every year and incredible because it’s still an unfinished work
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 14 May 2020 source ↗
Dan Harris Broadcast journalist; author of 10% Happier
I love—I’m a sucker for a rock doc. So I will watch pretty much any rockumentary that comes out. So I’ve—obviously, the king of them is The Last Waltz, which is a Martin Scorsese movie about the final concert put on by The Band. There actually is a new documentary called Once Were Brothers, I believe, and it’s also about The Band, Robbie Robertson.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 19 November 2020 source ↗
David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails; chief technology officer of 37signals
Let’s see. I like The Big Short. I’d read the book already. That was a good one. ... I find more than documentaries – I get a little impatient with documentaries because I find the point they’re trying to make could be made in ten minutes and we’re stretching it to an hour and 45 with pictures and unless those pictures are amazing, there’s a lot of other things I’d rather do.
Recorded Tim Ferriss, The Tim Ferriss Show podcast, 5 June 2018 source ↗
Wes Lindamood designer and immersive-storytelling producer at NPR
What's your favorite documentary? I'm glad you asked. It's Errol Morris's film Fast, Cheap & Out of Control I saw this film at a festival in college, and in a single viewing it completely changed my perception of what a documentary could be. Since then, I've had an unrelenting obsession with documentary film.
Recorded Faces of NPR questionnaire, KEDM / NPR, 27 February 2017 source ↗

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