"The Kingmaker" filmmaker Lauren Greenfield on interviewing Imelda Marcos

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🗓️ 13 December 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Imelda Marcos is one of the most notorious figures in recent history, and she's the subject of Lauren Greenfield's new documentary The Kingmaker. It's an intimate profile of the former Philippine first lady as well as a critique on plutocracy. Lauren tells us how she got access to interview Marcos and about her other films: Generation Wealth and the brilliant Queen of Versailles.

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1:14.1	The Melda Marcos became part of the zeitgeist, at least here in the United States, when we found out
1:26.8	about her shoes. 3,000 pairs kept neatly inside a palace in Manila. The cameras found them after
1:35.2	Marcos fled her home in the Philippines. Her husband, Ferdinand, was the president of that country
1:41.6	for over 20 years, and the two worked together closely. It was a reign that saw countless human
1:47.0	rights abuses, the imprisonment and assassination of political rivals, billions of dollars stolen,
1:53.0	and a 14-year-long period of martial law. For a time, the Marcos' lived in exile. Ferdinand
2:00.9	died in Hawaii. Then in the 90s, Melda returned. She's now a member of the Philippine House of
2:07.6	Representatives, and she's still crafting her legacy. It's all in the Kingmaker, a new documentary,
2:14.7	and that documentary's director, Lauren Greenfield, might be the perfect person to profile a
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