Kirby Dick & Amy Ziering - 'Allen v. Farrow'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 128 minutes

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The powerhouse team of documentary filmmakers behind some of the most acclaimed and socially impactful docs of the 21st century reflect on their very different backgrounds, how they began collaborating and how sexual misconduct became the major theme of their work together. Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 396th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood
0:13.3	Reporter's Awards Podcast.
0:15.3	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guests today are two documentary filmmakers who have
0:20.4	teamed up on some of the most acclaimed and impactful documentary projects of the 21st
0:25.4	century.
0:26.4	Indeed, while his first Oscar nomination came for a documentary that he made without
0:30.4	her, 2004's Twist of Faith, which explored sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, they have
0:36.3	experienced their greatest successes on projects they made together, which also tackled subjects
0:41.6	related to sexual misconduct.
0:43.7	2012's The Invisible War, for which they were Oscar nominated in one of Peabody Award,
0:48.8	shined a light on sexual assault in the military.
0:52.1	2015's The Hunting Ground, for which they received the Producer's Guild Stanley Kramer Award,
0:57.8	exposed the epidemic of rape on college campuses, 2020's On the Record looked at numerous allegations
1:04.6	of sexual misconduct on the part of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, and Alan V. Farrow,
1:10.4	a four-part HBO documentary series which dropped last spring, examines allegations of sexual
1:15.3	abuse made by Dylan Farrow against her father Woody Allen, and has brought this team
1:20.8	primetime Emmy nominations for writing, directing, and producing.
1:25.1	I'm talking about Kirby Dick and Amy Zering.
1:29.4	Over the course of our conversation, the 68-year-old and 58-year-old, respectively, reflected
1:34.0	on their very different journeys to filmmaking, how they first crossed paths and began working
1:38.7	together, how sexual misconduct became a running theme of their work, what they would have asked
1:44.9	Woody Allen if he had agreed to be interviewed for Alan V. Farrow, plus much more.
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