Documentary filmmakers found reluctant subjects, wary distributors, polarization fears — and a long shadow from the hearings into the attack on the Capitol.
, committee staff members “tried to make a big fuss over how beneficial it would be to take part in it,” he recalled. He balked at that argument and
But he also received death threats and had to hire a security detail, Holder said. “The downside was the fact that I ended up becoming the story when I certainly didn’t want to.” And for Quested, serving as a witness meant he lost the anonymity he long relied upon when embedding with subjects; some people, he said, now assume that by merely complying with a subpoena, he chose to collaborate with the government.
But at least among the filmmakers focusing on Jan. 6, Sean Fine said, there is a sense of a collective community and collaboration, rather than competition.
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