‘Cheer’ and ‘Hillary’ Filmmakers Talk Objectivity and Truth in Documentaries

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  • Author: Danielle Turchiano
  • July 02,2020

‘Cheer’ and ‘Hillary’ Filmmakers Talk Objectivity and Truth in Documentaries One might think that “Last Chance U” and “Cheer” executive producer and director Greg Whiteley’s 2014 documentary experience with Mitt Romney would bond him to Nanette Burstein, who executive produced and directed “Hillary,” a four-part docuseries about Hillary Clinton. It would not be an incorrect assumption, but it would be a limiting one.

When Variety brought the filmmakers together for a candid conversation about their recent Emmy-eligible series, we found they have something much deeper in common: Both of their approaches to storytelling can be summed up by the opening of Burstein’s 2002 documentary “The Kid Stays in the Picture,
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