About this episode

Robert Stone discusses his documentary on the Patty Hearst kidnapping and its upcoming screening.

Robert Stone is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning documentary filmmaker. He is an Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary and a three-time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking. Four of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including Closing Night Film. His recent 6-hour epic history of the effort to land a man on the Moon, Chasing the Moon, won the prestigious DuPont Columbia Award and was seen by 8 million viewers in the United States alone and was broadcast in 13 foreign countries. Over the span of his 40 year career, his work has been broadcast worldwide and screened and honored at countless film festivals. Film critic Owen Gleiberman has called Stone “one of our most important documentarians” having directed “two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade.” Robert joins me to discuss his terrific 2004 documentary GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST, which has a special screening and Q&A at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, NY on Wednesday July 1 at 7pm. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy…

People in this episode

Host: Andy Ostroy

Guest: Robert Stone

Topics covered

• documentary filmmaking
• Patty Hearst
• film screening
• interview
• Robert Stone

Keywords

• documentary
• Patty Hearst
• Robert Stone
• film festival
• interview

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Upstate Films

Books & works: GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST, Chasing the Moon

Places: Rhinebeck, NY

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