Three African-American women cross gender, race and professional lines to help put a man into orbit in Director Theodore Melfi’s new drama, Hidden Figures.
“Meet the women you don't know, behind the mission you do,” is the tagline for Melfi’s film which tells the incredible untold true story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson, three African-American female mathematicians working at NASA who were tasked with making the calculations for the momentous launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit and guaranteeing his safe return.
Following the DGA membership screening in Los Angeles on December 30, Melfi sat down with Director Anthony Hemingway (The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story) to discuss the making of Hidden Figures. Melfi had previously discussed the film in a conversation with Director John Patrick Shanley (Doubt) after the DGA membership screening in New York on December 7.
In addition to Hidden Figures, Melfi’s credits include the feature films St. Vincent and Winding Roads; and the shorts I Want Candy, Roshambo, The Beneficiary and The Story of Bob. He has been a DGA member since 2005.
You can listen to Melfi's Q&A by clicking the podcast episode embedded below. You can find all DGA podcast episodes here.