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Sandy Smolan
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Sandy Smolan Film Director
TRANSCRIPT:
It's gone through a couple permutations. It went from being on the fringe to then being delegated between news and the occasional film that would cross over to a more mainstream market. In fact, one of the first films I worked on was about a musical group called The Weavers. And we cut (edited) that in my living room -- talk about flatbeds. And that film had a theatrical release, which was unheard of then. But it was a political film and really talked about blacklisting and the power of music -- it had an impact on people. And led into the importance of music throughout the '60s and '70s.
And there was kind of a rediscovery of documentaries on television. And suddenly with Discovery, and with a lot of network news and cable, it's come back in a way that I think none of us imagined; because for years, it was always talked about as a dying art form. And it's great to see how resilient it is. And true stories have incredible power. And I think what we try to do in fiction -- because I move back and forth between both worlds -- is recreate the power of a really great true story. What happens in life, you can capture dramatically, but when you find one of those stories that's true -- there's nothing that has that impact.
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