Sheila Nevins - HBO Documentary Films

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2016

⏱️ 78 minutes

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The single most influential person in the history of doc filmmaking reflects on how a gig that was to last 13 weeks has gone on for more than 30 years, how the arrival of Vice at HBO and the rise of streaming services like Netflix and Amazon has impacted her division and what she thinks the future holds — for her, her division and doc filmmaking in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.3	I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of the most powerful female
0:48.6	executives in the history of the entertainment industry and perhaps the single most influential figure in the history of
0:54.7	documentary filmmaking, Sheila Nevins, the president of HBO documentary films.
1:00.0	The 73 year old has been at HBO since 1979 and has guided docks to 26 Academy Awards,
1:06.4	65 Emmy Awards, and 46 Peabody Awards, while personally winning 32 primetime
1:12.3	Emmys, more than any other person in history,
1:14.8	as well as a personal Peabody Award in 1999 for being, quote,
1:18.9	one of the true independent spirits in Television Today, close quote.
1:23.2	Over the course of our conversation in her corner office at HBO's headquarters in Midtown
1:27.4	Manhattan, Nevins and I discuss how a person who grew up without a television wound up working in that medium for the likes of PBS
1:35.0	under Don Misher, ABC under Bob Shanks, and CBS under Don Hewitt.
1:40.5	Why she turned down a job at 60 minutes for what was supposed to be just a 13 week gig at a new cable network called home box office?
1:48.0	What the doc financing and distribution scene looked like at that time and how HBO documentary films changed it.
1:54.0	How the arrival of Vice at HBO and the rise of streaming services like Netflix and
1:59.2	Amazon has impacted HBO documentary films, which stocks from over the years she's proudest of helping,
2:05.8	from Paradise Loss to Gas Land to Citizen Four to the Jenks, as well as many others you may not have heard
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