Three documentaries that likely will be awards-season contenders begin their theatrical rollouts Friday. Magnolia Pictures is opening Sundance Film Festival pickup Mike Wallace Is Here in New York …
In the fall of 2017, filmmaker Avi Belkin approached producer Rafael Marmor about an idea to tell the larger story about broadcast journalism though the work of maverick CBS newsman Mike Wallace. With the media labeled as “the enemy of the people” by the current U.S. president, Belkin wanted to contextualize the debate around “fake news,” which threatens to dislodge the fourth estate.
After getting the Wallace family’s blessing, CBS opened the entire vault, giving the filmmaking team entrée to footage fromand other Wallace programs. “We had all the raw footage from more than 60 years of Wallace,” said Marmor. “CBS had been approached before, as well as his family, but the time was right when we came to them. They liked the idea of telling [Wallace’s] story and relating it to what’s going on with journalism now.
Editing went down to the wire just ahead of the film’s Sundance Film Festival premiere in January — going from a first-cut nine hours down to the final 82-minute version. Magnolia Pictures caught the film at the festival and began talks immediately after the screening. “They understood [the film] immediately,” noted Marmor.opens Friday at the Landmark in Los Angeles and the Angelika and Landmark 57 West in New York.
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