All posts filed under: Archival

Beat of a Nation: Kerouac’s Road

Beat of a Nation: Kerouac’s RoadArchival Producer Directed by Ebs BurnoughProduced by Eliza Hindmarch, John Battsek, Ebs BurnoughEdited by Paul TrewarthaArchival Producers: Sophie Slemeck & Laura Coxson Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” finds new relevance as modern travelers and cultural figures like Josh Brolin, W. […]

Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer

Final Thoughts: Jerry SpringerArchival Producer From Leon Neyfakh and Prologue Projects — the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, Think Twice: Michael Jackson, and Backfired — comes Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer. You may think you know Jerry Springer—the iconic TV host who presided over America’s […]

Hidden Master (2024)

Hidden Master (2024)Archival Producer Director: Sam Shahid An intimate look at pioneering artist George Platt Lynes, who took radically explicit photographs of the male nude. The documentary reveals Lynes’s gifted eye for the male form, his long-term friendships with Gertrude Stein and Alfred Kinsey, and […]

The Just Enough Family

Host: Ariel LevyProducer: Melinda ShopsinResearcher: Laura Coxson Listen here Staggering success, unexpected loss, over-the-top parties, shocking betrayals, and profound intimacy are woven together into a high-profile family-therapy session. The Just Enough Family follows the meteoric rise and staggering fall of the Steinbergs, once one of […]

AKA Jane Roe

Archival Producer with Melissa Jacobson Director/Producer: Nick Sweeney Producers: Kerstin Emhoff, Chiemi Karasawa Synopsis: Behind what may be the Supreme Court’s most polarizing decision, Roe v. Wade, is a woman as controversial as the case itself. In her deathbed confession, Norma McCorvey, aka “Jane Roe”, finally […]

The Capote Tapes

(2019) The Capote Tapes Archivist Director: Ebs Burnough Producers:   Zara Akester, Holly Whiston, Ebs Burnough, Lawrence Elman Newly discovered interviews with friends of Truman Capote made by Paris Review co-founder George Plimpton invigorate this fascinating documentary on the author (and socialite) behind Breakfast at Tiffany’s and In Cold Blood, while […]

62,000 to 1: Three Teams, One City, One Year

(2019) 62,000 to 1: Three Teams, One City,  One Year Archival Producer Director:  Pete Sillen Producer:  Basil Iwanyk & Thunder Road Films Broadcast on SNY 62,000 To 1 tells the story of New York in 1969, a city divided and unraveled by war, riots and strikes […]

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

(2018) Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes Website: bluenoterecords-film.com/en/ Archival Producer Director: Sophie Huber Producers: Hercli Bundi, Chiemi Karasawa Editor: Russell Greene A revelatory, thrilling and emotional journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest […]

Graven Image

(2017) Graven Image Producer, Archival Producer Director: Sierra Pettengill Editor: Daniel Garber Executive Producers: Laura Poitras and Charlotte Cook USA, 10 minutes Told solely and entirely through archival footage and audio spanning from the 1910s to the present day Graven Image traces the construction of […]

Bayard & Me

(2016) Bayard & Me Archival Producer Directed by: Matt Wolf Bayard Rustin was the organizer of the March on Washington and one of the leaders of the civil rights movement. In the 1980s Bayard adopted his younger boyfriend Walter Naegle to obtain the legal protections […]