Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor
They wanted it for its artistic value. I found that deeply moving.
Taste & recommendation
What is your favourite documentary, and what did it change for you?
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Mo Scarpelli
filmmaker and documentary director/producer
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.
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Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg, She Does questionnaire/interview page, She Does Podcast, 2015
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Charlotte Cook
documentary producer; co-creator and executive producer of Field of Vision
"Fourteen Days in May" by Paul Hamann opened my eyes to the power of documentary and "Portrait of Jason" remains my favorite documentary of all time. The exploration of performance and representation of reality and storytelling is still very powerful to me.
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Elaine Sheldon and Sarah Ginsburg, She Does questionnaire/interview page, She Does Podcast, 27 January 2016
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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
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