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Simon Chinn: Working with James Marsh (2010)

Duration: 20:48    

Simon ChinnĀ | Masterclass | 2010

Simon Chinn is a double Academy Award- winning British film producer, responsible for some of the most successful feature documentaries of recent years including Man on Wire (2008), and Searching for Sugar Man (2012). Chinn continues to produce theatrical documentaries; his latest work with James Marsh on Project Nim (2011) which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2011, and Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie (2015).

In this masterclass, Chinn tells us about working with James Marsh on Man on Wire.

This class is made up of 7 parts ALL viewable at the top of this page in the embedded playlist:

Part 1: Marsh as Editor
Part 2: What Should a Director look for in a Producer?
Part 3: The initial stages of making Man on a Wire
Part 4: Collaboration as Producer
Part 5: 9/11
Part 6: Relationships when making the film
Part 7: The Story

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