Keeping it Real--Reflections (and Clips) from Capturing the Real in Film and Televison
Thursday, February 5, 2009 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
The popularity of documentary films has exploded over recent years, bringing new interest to the art and technique of telling true stories for the screen. Two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker
Bill Guttentag will take us inside this world, drawing on his experiences from directing films and television programming on subjects as diverse as the Rape of Nanking (Nanking/THINKFilm), the legal
system (Law & Order: Crime & Punishment, NBC) and music and the civil rights movement (Soundtrack for a Revolution/Wild Bunch). He also recently wrote and directed the feature film
Live!(Mosaic Media/The Weinstein Company) starring Eva Mendes and Andre Braugher. He will show clips from his work and discuss storytelling for the screen, the business of film, and some future
trends. Since 2001 Guttentag has been teaching a class on the film and television business at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. The Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by the
English Department, the Valley Library, and the Office of the Provost.
