Malcolm Ingram wrote for Film Threat and had a couple of low budget films produced by Kevin Smith. His doc is Small Town Gay Bar.
Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan's Troublesome Creek was nominated for an Oscar and aired on PBS. So Much So Fast is about Stephen Heywood who develops ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) and his brother Jamie who started the ALS Therapy Development Foundation. They were also the subject of an article in the New Yorker by Jonathan Weiner because of the book His Brother's Keeper.
Lauren Greenfield has produced remarkable photography books including Girl Culture. Her documentary for HBO, Thin, is about eating disorders.
Wordplay, by Patrick Creadon, is about Will Shortz who creates puzzles for NPR and a certain major paper.
ed: JH
Article comments
1 - Krasimir [FilmDailies.com]
It's interesting to know how many movies COMPETED for the official selection. NY Times put the number at 2,000+!