Change isn't coming. It's already here. Commerce is going digital and tax complexity is multiplying.

Tax rules evolve, rate shift, data floods in. Vertex connects it all.

A global tax compliance platform powered by tax-ready data and intelligence systems.

Smarter tech, continuous tax compliance, built-in confidence.

Learn more at vertexinck.com. Hello and welcome to a special Angel City edition of full-time. I'm Steph Yang. I spoke with

Angel City director Arlene Nelson

about how she spent a year plus filming the team, the ways she wanted to bring viewers into

the experience, and what she hopes we might get out of a possible season two.

I'm here with Arlene Nelson, who's the director of the Angel City documentary on HBO,

also quite an accomplished cinematographer.

Arlene, thanks for hopping on the line with us. Thanks for having me. It's really exciting.

I just wanted to ask, were you a soccer fan before this series? I, of course, have heard of the

women's national team. I, of course course watched World Cups. But in terms of

following the NWSL or being a diehard soccer fan, I am now. Yeah. I mean, I kind of wanted to ask a little bit as well about the more technical side,

which was how many crews did you have running at any one time? Because I know with a documentary,

people see an iceberg, right? You see like a little 1% up here and then a 99% below. So what was

that like? Well, from my background of shooting large-scale events and also small, intimate scenes, we ran the gamut of some of our scenes were covered with single camera.

Sometimes it was just me and a sound person. But other times,

especially when it came to the games, we would scale up. Sometimes we had like between six to

eight camera crews and especially for the home opener. That we wanted to make sure that we captured inside the locker room.

We covered the supporters.

We covered the gameplay.

...