The president of the HBO documentaries…
is hoping to turn the black lives movement…into an HBO special! Here’s an excerpt from her interview with the Hollywood Reporter:
When was the last time you read something and called a filmmaker and commissioned a film?
The morning of the Oscar nominations. I noticed that all the [documentary] films that were up there, there was almost nothing about America, and my heart broke because I realized that documentary filmmakers are not looking in their own backyard. And if they are, they’re not being recognized for it. The fact that there was no documentary about Black Lives Matter at a time when this is such a critical American issue … was unbelievable. I said to my colleague here, “Call [a director she declined to name in case a deal doesn’t transpire]. See how much it would cost to do a big documentary about what’s been happening in this country.” You have to do it.