It takes preparation, perseverance, patience and empathy for documentarians to gain their subjects’ confidence. Documentary directors Liz Garbus, Alex Gibney, Steve James, Matt Tyrnauer and Marina Zenovich share their modus operandi in getting people to open up.
Directors Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein, Asif Kapadia, Gabriela Cowperthwaite, Alex Gibney and Bart Layton, who straddle the line between fiction and nonfiction, are storytellers first and foremost.
With The Looming Tower, directors Alex Gibney, Craig Zisk, Michael Slovis, John Dahl and Ali Selim retrace Al-Qaeda's path to 9/11
Alex Gibney
How has Alex Gibney managed to turn hard-hitting subjects like Enron and the war on terror into award-winning documentaries?