Liz Garbus and Heidi Ewing have both been acclaimed for their documentary films, but that was no guarantee they'd actually get to direct their first narrative features, which both premiered at Sundance 2020.
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“I don’t know Todd’s trajectory, and if he tried to make more docs,” said Garbus. “But I had a script I was carrying around in my pocket for a long time after ‘The Farm’ that I couldn’t get made. So why are there more female documentary filmmakers? Because the pay is less. The threshold for entry is less. The budgets are less. I don’t think women are inherently better documentary filmmakers.”
In separate conversations, Garbus and Ewing — who are well-acquainted through the film world — spoke about the challenge of segueing into the narrative moviemaking.When you started your career, did you aspire to make fiction or nonfiction films?Some documentary filmmakers look at it as a stepping stone to narrative work. I wasn’t ever looking to do a narrative, and that does limit the kind of stories I can tell.As an undergrad, I actually made documentaries and narrative films.
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