Theodore Melfi: Hidden Figures

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Director Theodore Melfi discusses the importance of the highlighting the three African American women very instrumental in 1960s NASA space program in Hidden Figures.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.6	Welcome to The Treatment.
0:15.6	I'm Elvis Mitchell, sitting across from a guy who just this week, the recipient of an Oscar nomination for his...
0:21.6	Is it really your third feature, Ted?
0:24.2	Third feature, yeah.
0:25.0	Okay, yeah, because we know St. Vincent's, you did a film that turned up on Showtime about 15 years ago or so?
0:30.7	Yeah, winding roads.
0:32.3	That's the one, yeah.
0:33.1	But this new film, of course, we all know, is hidden Figures, as now come to be known, Hidden Fences.
0:37.7	Hidden Fences.
0:38.3	Theodore Melfay, the writer, co-writer and the director of the film.
0:41.1	First of all, Ted, thanks so much for doing this.
0:42.8	Oh, well, please.
0:43.6	Thanks for having me.
0:44.5	Oh, my pleasure.
0:45.2	And if you can tell the audience a little bit, for those who don at NASA during the Mercury Space missions, and the women were Catherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson.
0:59.8	And what makes the story extraordinary is these women were integral in the calculations that it took to get a man into space.
1:07.5	A, they were women.
1:08.7	B, they were black women.
1:10.1	And C, no one's ever heard women. Yeah, so these were integral...
1:11.1	And C, no one's ever heard about them.
1:12.2	Yes, these were integral in the place that was non-integrated.
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