Please join award-winning filmmaker Laurent Bouzereau in The Locher Room. Laurent will be here to tell us about his new HBO documentary Mama's Boy. Mama’s Boy premieres on Tuesday, October 18th at 9 p.m. EST / 6 p.m PST on HBO.

The documentary centers around the upbringing of the Academy Award®-winning screenwriter of Milk, Dustin Lance Black. Traveling back to the places where he grew up, Black explores his childhood roots, gay identity, and close relationship with his mother, who overcame childhood polio, abusive marriages and Mormon dogma, while becoming Black’s emotional rock and, ultimately, the inspiration for his activism. With a wealth of personal photographs and candid memories from Black’s family, colleagues, and friends, Mama's Boy embraces the personal to tell a universally hopeful tale of resilience and reconciliation through the power of love and shared stories.

Adapted from Black’s 2019 memoir “Mama’s Boy: A Story from our Americas,” the documentary is a provocative and powerful journey through America as well as a moving tribute to a mother’s courage and a reckoning with the strength she instilled in her son to fight for his beliefs. The film features interviews with screenwriter Dustin Lance Black; members of Black’s extended family; Black’s husband, Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley; filmmaker Paris Barclay; former president of the Human Rights Campaign, Chad Griffin; and executive director of Equality Utah, Troy Williams.

Laurent’s credits include the HBO/Amblin Television documentary film Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, and the Netflix/Amblin Television acclaimed series Five Came Back (with an Emmy winning narration by Meryl Streep), based on the book by Mark Harris. Nedland Media, his production company, with his partner, Markus Keith, also produces behind the scenes documentaries and marketing shorts, most recently on Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story and the upcoming The Fabelmans.

Come meet this talented director and my friend Laurent Bouzereau.

Original Airdate: 10/14/2022