
HBO=Doc; Hollywood Back on the Couch
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Documentaries used to be relegated to PBS and college classrooms, but these days, they're just as liable to come to theater near you. We talk to Sheila Nevins, who's had a big part in growing of the nonfiction business as head of HBO Documentary Films for the past three decades. Plus, we revisit our session with Hollywood therapist Dennis Palumbo.
Guests:
- Sheila Nevins: Director of Documentaries, HBO
- Dennis Palumbo: screenwriter-turned-psychotherapist
Links:
- Palumbo's 'Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within'
- Sheila Nevins (Paley Center biography)
- Sheila Nevins (Patrick Goldstein's profile in the Los Angeles Times)
- Sheila Nevins (NY Times profile, 2002)
- Variety article on HBO buying ‘Polanski' documentary at Sundance, 2008
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