Telling Stories with Sheila Nevins
Remade in America with Bassem Youssef
CAFE
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Sheila Nevins was the longtime President of HBO Documentary films.
She has worked on productions that have been recognized with 35 News and Documentary Emmy Awards, 42 Peabody Awards, and 26 Academy Awards. Sheila has also won 32 individual Primetime Emmy Awards, more than any other person.
Sheila talks to Bassem about being an outsider both in her childhood and also as a woman in Hollywood. They discuss Sheila's philosophy of storytelling and her favorite documentary. And, Sheila asks Bassem a few questions, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Today is the last episode of Season 1 of Remaid in America. As I think back on the |
| 0:09.6 | launch of this show |
| 0:13.0 | podcast I remember that I originally wanted to make a show about the |
| 0:14.4 | experience of being an outsider in America. |
| 0:17.0 | And while I think we achieved a goal, |
| 0:19.5 | this show has really become about something else, telling other people's stories. |
| 0:26.4 | We have heard about Nasjubrani growing up in two cultures. |
| 0:30.7 | Maria Inahosa being the first Latina hired at NPR and Breed Barara convincing his classmates that |
| 0:38.4 | Pritte is in fact a real name. |
| 0:41.7 | Even later this episode we will hear a message from Nicholas Christoph of the New York Times |
| 0:46.4 | telling us about a time that he felt like an outsider. Over the course of season one remade in America has become all about telling other people's stories and I love that |
| 0:58.7 | The way you tell someone else's story matters. Today we are going to talk to someone who built her career on telling other people's stories, people who don't otherwise have a voice. |
| 1:16.6 | And she did it her way. |
| 1:19.3 | I didn't want to feel that you had to read the front page of the New York Times to watch anything I worked on. Her name is Sheila Nevins. She was the |
| 1:27.5 | longtime president of HBO documentary films. Sheila has won more awards than anyone I have ever heard of. |
| 1:35.0 | Let me read straight from the internet for this part. |
| 1:39.0 | Sheila has worked on productions that have been recognized with 35 news and documentary Emmy Awards, |
| 1:46.1 | 42 Peabody Awards and 26 Academy Awards, and Sheila has won 32 individual prime time Emmy awards more than any other person. |
| 1:59.0 | And she's joining us today to talk about telling other people's stories for her whole career. |
| 2:04.0 | I'm Bessie Musif, this is remade in America presented by Cafe. I have to tell you there are some amazing places to eat here but I have been in New York |
| 2:28.8 | the past few weeks and I have to tell you there are some amazing places to eat here. |
| 2:34.0 | But I'll admit, after the excitement wore off, I just wanted a good home cooked meal. |
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