First annual Goldie Feldman Legacy Event honoring Ed & Betty Rosenthal ������������������������������������������������������ �������������������������������� 8350 Carolina St., Sarasota Featuring cocktails, heavy hors d’oeuvres catering by Innovative Dining, walking tour of the grounds, and live music �������������������������������������������������������������������������������� underwriting opportunities are available ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� APRIL 2017 | SCENE 105 on the town Is there a filmmaker out there that you’ve looked at as being one of your mentors? I was aware in college of and had great admiration for the work of Barbara Kopple, the great female director. I loved the series, Eyes on the Prize, so I had some awareness of film having the ability to make a social impact. Now I have enormous respect for so many filmmakers in our field, every single one of the people who were nominated this year for an Academy Award for documentary features are all so fantastic. I have never seen so many people who have risked their lives. I have huge respect for so many filmmakers, my partner Liz Garbus. I love Michael Moore’s film and Heidi Ewing – an endless number of people that I won’t go through them all. I do feel that it’s an extraordinary community, and it’s great that Sarasota provides an outlet for it to showcase their extraordinary films and stories that they make. Your husband, Mark Bailey, is also a filmmaker. What is the greatest thing you learned from him in film and in life? I learn so many things from my husband. He’s my partner in work and my partner in life. He is the person I most admire in the world. On a classical filmmaking level, he comes to it as a writer and that’s his training. He is very disciplined and documentaries are kind of a funny thing because they’re real life and you’re also making a movie. You take elements that you might see in dramatic film and apply them to a documentary genre. So you figure those things out and how that works. When you make a film like Last Days in Vietnam, people would come up to me all the time and say to me, ‘This is like a thriller. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.’ So you want people to be engaged, and to do that you have to incorporate writing and structure techniques that are going to deliver that, obviously not at the expense of truth, but by sticking to the story at hand. You’re making choices that help make the audiences feel engaged. So I think in that capacity he’s made an enormous contribution to all the films I’ve made. �������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ ���������������������������������������������������������� �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Hershorin Schiff Community Day School 1050 S. Tuttle Ave. Sarasota | (941) 552-2770 www.CommunityDay.org BE INFORMED... BE ENTERTAINED… BE SCENE CONNECT WITH US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
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