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Davis Guggenheim's Career Evolution & 'He Named Me Malala'
Early in his career, Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim declared he would never make documentaries. He tells us about the bad experience in Hollywood that made him have a change of heart, and talks about his newest film, He Named Me Malala, which profiles activist Malala Yousafzai and her family.
By Kim Masters • • 29m ListenFor filmmaker Davis Guggenheim, making documentaries was never the plan. He was a TV guy -- working on shows like NYPD Blue and Deadwood -- with hopes of making feature films. It looked like he was going to get chance with Training Day until he was abruptly fired. Guggenheim tells us how getting unceremoniously canned from the Denzel Washington thriller set him on a course to directing movies with a message, from the Oscar-winning doc An Inconvenient Truth to his latest film, He Named Me Malala, about the Nobel Prize-winning activist Malala Yousafzai.
Photo: Davis Guggenheim, director of He Named Me Malala, with Malala Yousafzai, courtesy of Fox Searchlight
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The new documentary He Named Me Malala tells the story of the young activist Malala Yousafzai, whose outspoken advocacy of education for girls made her the target of the Taliban. At age 15, Malala was shot in the head while en route to school in Pakistan's Swat Valley. Yet she survived, and now lives with her family in the UK.
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