BBC to air feature-length Harvey Weinstein documentary
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Your support makes all the difference.The dust has not even settled on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, with new allegations still coming out, but the BBC is already developing a feature-length documentary about the Hollywood mogul.
Set to focus on the producer, given the working title of Weinstein (as opposed to the wider sexual misconduct debate the allegations against him precipitated and other accused Hollywood men), the doc will feature interviews with a number of actress who have told their stories, according to Deadline.
Journalist, producers, directors, agents, lawyers and more will also help the documentary pick apart the scandal through interviews.
Ursula MacFarlane (Charlie Head: Three Days That Shook Paris, The Real Yoko Ono, Netflix's Captive) will direct the film.
"Others who have previously been unable or unwilling to talk publicly about Weinstein and the culture of fear and abuse that permeates Hollywood," will also appear in Weinstein, Deadline notes, which "will also aim to tell a broader story of Hollywood, through the prism of the sex scandal, from the emergence of the studio system in the 1930s and chart Weinstein’s history in the business from the 1970s."
BBC’s Head of Natural History and Specialist Factual Commissioning Tom McDonald, who commissioned the doc, said: "This film promises to be the definitive take on the Weinstein scandal.
"As well as revealing the inside story of the past few months in minute detail, it will also look to the past to tell the story of abuses of power within Hollywood since its very origins and chart the rise of Harvey Weinstein himself over many decades.
"This is a film which will ask difficult and challenging questions about complicity, the price of silence and the corrosive effects of power and I’m certain that Lightbox [the production company] will bring their signature approach to this important subject."
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