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Stanley Nelson on the Art of the Documentary and His Latest Film, 'Attica'

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4.2726 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When Stanley Nelson was growing up in 1950s New York, the award-winning documentary filmmaker had no idea he wanted to enter the profession because, he recalls, film wasn't a career option for African Americans at all. Nelson has gone on to direct and produce scores of documentaries over a decades-long career, shedding light on both familiar and underappreciated corners of the American experience. We'll talk to him about his latest film, "Attica," which was recently shortlisted for an Academy Award, and hear why he avoids re-enactments, how he gets his subjects to open up to him and what draws him to stories of institutions and movements that are greater than any one individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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quote, milder than other variants is still not a good idea. First, though, award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson joins us.

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Nelson sheds light on both familiar yet under-explored corners of the African-American experience.

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We'll talk to him about his latest film Attica, which was recently shortlisted for an Oscar,

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and hear how he gets his subjects to open up and what draws him to stories

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about institutions and movements that are greater than any one individual. Join us.

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This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

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The documentary film Attica, which Stanley Nelson directed and produced with Tracy A. Curry,

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has recently been shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

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The film is about the September 1971 uprising at Attica State Prison in New York

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in the shockingly bloody, brutal, and deadly retaking of the prison by state troopers and the National

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