Interview Series: MATT HEINEMAN

What Really Happened?

Andrew Jenks

Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Jenks talks to Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, not to mention his former roommate, Matt Heineman, about his documentaries "Cartel Land" and "City of Ghosts", his riveting feature film "A Private War", and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	There are people in this world willing to put their life on the line to share stories
0:06.0	the world needs to see.
0:07.9	I've covered pretty intense situations.
0:10.7	I've been in shootouts.
0:11.7	I've been in meth labs.
0:12.9	I've been in torture chambers.
0:16.5	Safe access with people who are getting hunted by ISIS.
0:19.7	A lot of places that you don't necessarily want to find yourself.
0:22.7	Today I'll be introducing you to a former roommate of mine and now an Academy Award-nominated
0:27.2	filmmaker.
0:28.7	His name is Matt Heineman.
0:30.7	Relieved in a shoddy apartment in Midtown Manhattan, the place was a mess.
0:35.2	I had met Matt at HBO where he was working at the documentary department while also working
0:40.1	on his own documentary.
0:41.9	I had just returned home from Japan for my ESPN movie and HBO was airing my first movie
0:47.3	in a nursing home.
0:48.6	We were probably in our early 20s and Matt was more than anything just kind and he worked
0:55.1	hard.
0:56.1	Anyway, he asked if I needed an apartment, a room to stay in.
0:59.1	I said absolutely.
1:00.5	And so about 10 years ago, we both would be in our apartment, editing away our separate
1:05.0	projects.
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