Erin Lee Carr is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Her new film is Mommy Dead and Dearest.

“I feel like I’ve always had the story down—that’s not been really difficult for me. So the difficult thing, I think, for me, has always been access. Can I get the access? Can I withstand the pressure? You know, there’s been so many times where I wasn’t being paid to do the job, and I had to wait on the access. And it’s not for the faint of heart. You know, I could have spent a year and a half of my life doing [Mommy Dead and Dearest] and I could’ve not gotten the access to Gypsy, and it kind of would’ve been a wash.”

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[02:00] Mommy Dead and Dearest

[02:00] Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop

[02:30] "Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom To Be Murdered" (Michelle Dean • BuzzFeed • Aug 2016)

[04:30] Carr’s Vice archive

[05:15] Girls

[05:45] Capturing the Friedmans

[11:15] "First Animal to Survive in Space" (Motherboard • Sep 2012)

[12:45] David Carr’s Archive at The New York Times

[13:45] "David Carr: The News Diet of a Media Omnivore" (Fresh Air • Oct 2011)

[14:15] Click, Print, Gun: The Inside story of the 3D-Printed Gun Movement

[25:00] Raw Deal: The Untold Story of NYPD’s “Cannibal Cop” (Gil Valle • WildBlue Press • 2017)

[32:00] Nick Bilton on the Longform Podcast

[32:00] American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road (Nick Bilton • Portfolio • 2017)

[42:45] Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

[47:00] "Erin Lee Carr’s New True-Crime Documentary to Air on HBO (Exclusive)" (Gregg Kilday • Hollywood Reporter • Oct 2016)

[50:30] "Laura Poitras, Glen Greenwald and Edward Snowden with David Carr" (Times Talks • Feb 2015)

[52:15] "Still Rendering" (Medium • Feb 2016)

[55:00] The Night of the Gun: A reporter investigates the darkest story of his life. His own. (David Carr • Simon & Schuster • 2009)

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