For this episode I spoke to oscar nominated documentary director and producer Stanley Nelson. We spoke about his latest award-winning documentary Attica, based on the 1971 prisoner rebellion at the upstate New York prison which lasted five days and resulted in 43 deaths, both guards and inmates.

I also asked Stanley about his own journey thru documentary making and how it began, which of his documentaries he would recommend the most, the evolution of documentary film throughout the years and much more.. 

0.00 Intro, oscars
3.10 Stanley’s own start in doc making
6.30 Funding, commission for docs
7.43 Director vs producer
9.39 Initial interest in Attic as a subject
12.05 Stanley’s docs previous to Attica and Stanley’s favorite of his own work
16.41 Changes in docs over the years
21.26 Advice to young doc makers
23.20 Thoughts on “entertainment documentaries”
25.24 Docs made by others in the last few years that Stanley liked

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