A Conversation with Davis Guggenheim

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Join Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Incovenient Truth, Waiting for ‘Superman’) for an intimate onstage conversation about his documentary work and most recent film, He Named Me Malala, an intimate portrait of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai and her fight for the rights of girls around the world. Learn how he came to choose his focus for the film, some of the challenges he faced in its making, and why Western audiences should learn about Malala’s life. Guggenheim has directed some of the most successful documentaries of the last decade, and this will be a rare opportunity to hear about his approach to his craft, his thoughts about balancing dramatic elements with the need to be faithful to the truth and his other ideas about the documentary form.