Documentary producer, director and writer Jeffrey Tuchman, who helmed the Bill Clinton biography The Man From Hope, has died, according to Steve Elzer of Elzer & Associates. He was 62.
Tuchman, who was a documentarian for more than two decades, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles from pancreatic cancer.
The Man From Hope, which was shown at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, where Clinton accepted his party's nomination for president, features Clinton discussing his childhood and his early political career in Hope, Arkansas. The film won a Pollie Award.
After Clinton was elected president, Tuchman directed the 1994 documentary...
Tuchman, who was a documentarian for more than two decades, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles from pancreatic cancer.
The Man From Hope, which was shown at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, where Clinton accepted his party's nomination for president, features Clinton discussing his childhood and his early political career in Hope, Arkansas. The film won a Pollie Award.
After Clinton was elected president, Tuchman directed the 1994 documentary...
- 9/6/2017
- by Cheryl Cheng
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Jeffrey Tuchman, a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian whose Bill Clinton bio-film The Man From Hope was shown at the 1992 Democratic Convention, died September 2 of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 62. His death was confirmed by his family. Tuchman’s nearly 30-year career in documentary film included titles for A&E, PBS, The History Channel, Nhk, ABC, Discovery/TLC, Court TV, CBS, MSNBC and HBO. His 2005 History Channel hourlong…...
- 9/6/2017
- Deadline TV
Jeffrey Tuchman, a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian whose Bill Clinton bio-film The Man From Hope was shown at the 1992 Democratic Convention, died September 2 of pancreatic cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 62. His death was confirmed by his family. Tuchman’s nearly 30-year career in documentary film included titles for A&E, PBS, The History Channel, Nhk, ABC, Discovery/TLC, Court TV, CBS, MSNBC and HBO. His 2005 History Channel hourlong…...
- 9/6/2017
- Deadline
“The Man From Hope,” the 17-minute film that presented Bill Clinton to the Democratic National Convention, was big news in 1992. Produced by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason, the couple behind the hit TV series “Designing Women,” the short became the subject of innumerable long articles in major publications.
This year, the filmmakers behind the highest-grossing movies of all time also directed videos featured at the DNC. J.J. Abrams assembled the two-minute preamble to Michelle Obama’s speech, James Cameron contributed a 5-minute piece on the urgency of fighting climate change. Both left the media unrippled: Frankly, there was just too much competition.
Broadway luminaries filled the Wells Fargo Center’s stage for a rendition of “What the World Needs Now,” addressed to victims of gun violence, and the grace with which more than three dozen singers shared two microphones felt like socialism in action. Dozens more turned up in “Our Fight Song,...
This year, the filmmakers behind the highest-grossing movies of all time also directed videos featured at the DNC. J.J. Abrams assembled the two-minute preamble to Michelle Obama’s speech, James Cameron contributed a 5-minute piece on the urgency of fighting climate change. Both left the media unrippled: Frankly, there was just too much competition.
Broadway luminaries filled the Wells Fargo Center’s stage for a rendition of “What the World Needs Now,” addressed to victims of gun violence, and the grace with which more than three dozen singers shared two microphones felt like socialism in action. Dozens more turned up in “Our Fight Song,...
- 7/29/2016
- by Sam Adams
- Indiewire
Linda Bloodworth Thomason, the creator of Designing Women, Evening Shade and other television series, has been friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton for more than 30 years. The Hollywood Reporter asked the director of Bridegroom, a documentary portraying the tragedy that befell a young gay couple when one of the men died before same-sex marriage was permanently legal in California, to write about her relationship with the Clintons. Bloodworth Thomason, who grants few interviews, reveals how her role as the producer of Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign film, The Man From Hope, now considered a seminal piece of political filmmaking,
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- 11/19/2013
- by Linda Bloodworth Thomason
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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It was only May of last year when Shane Bitney Crone posted a YouTube video called “It Could Happen To You,” a very sad and moving 10-minute clip about his love Tom Bridegroom, who died after falling from a roof while taking pictures with friends. Bridegroom’s family never accepted their son’s gayness and they forbade Crone from attending his funeral, threatening him with violence if he tried.
Now Crone’s harrowing story has moved off of YouTube and into the documentary circuit. Bridegroom (which is out on DVD Nov. 19 and available on Netflix Instant now) aired on Own in early November and inspired rave reviews from Own heroine Oprah Winfrey and scores of celebrity admirers, including President Bill Clinton.
Perhaps that’s not terribly surprising considering Bridegroom‘s director Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who created Designing Women and Evening Shade as well as several episodes of M*A*S...
It was only May of last year when Shane Bitney Crone posted a YouTube video called “It Could Happen To You,” a very sad and moving 10-minute clip about his love Tom Bridegroom, who died after falling from a roof while taking pictures with friends. Bridegroom’s family never accepted their son’s gayness and they forbade Crone from attending his funeral, threatening him with violence if he tried.
Now Crone’s harrowing story has moved off of YouTube and into the documentary circuit. Bridegroom (which is out on DVD Nov. 19 and available on Netflix Instant now) aired on Own in early November and inspired rave reviews from Own heroine Oprah Winfrey and scores of celebrity admirers, including President Bill Clinton.
Perhaps that’s not terribly surprising considering Bridegroom‘s director Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who created Designing Women and Evening Shade as well as several episodes of M*A*S...
- 11/11/2013
- by Louis Virtel
- The Backlot
Washington — President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office.
Campaign manager Jim Messina says the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth," about Al Gore's global-warming campaign.
Messina says the documentary will, in his words, "put into perspective the enormous challenges that the nation faced when the president took office and the strides we've made together."
Campaigns frequently release documentary films to reach voters and amplify the narrative of a candidate's message. In 1992, TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason helped create "The Man From Hope," a campaign biography of Bill Clinton.
Campaign manager Jim Messina says the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth," about Al Gore's global-warming campaign.
Messina says the documentary will, in his words, "put into perspective the enormous challenges that the nation faced when the president took office and the strides we've made together."
Campaigns frequently release documentary films to reach voters and amplify the narrative of a candidate's message. In 1992, TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason helped create "The Man From Hope," a campaign biography of Bill Clinton.
- 3/7/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Washington — President Barack Obama's re-election campaign plans to release a 17-minute documentary next week about his first term in office.
Campaign manager Jim Messina says the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth," about Al Gore's global-warming campaign.
Messina says the documentary will, in his words, "put into perspective the enormous challenges that the nation faced when the president took office and the strides we've made together."
Campaigns frequently release documentary films to reach voters and amplify the narrative of a candidate's message. In 1992, TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason helped create "The Man From Hope," a campaign biography of Bill Clinton.
Campaign manager Jim Messina says the documentary was directed by Davis Guggenheim, whose credits include the Academy Award-winning, "An Inconvenient Truth," about Al Gore's global-warming campaign.
Messina says the documentary will, in his words, "put into perspective the enormous challenges that the nation faced when the president took office and the strides we've made together."
Campaigns frequently release documentary films to reach voters and amplify the narrative of a candidate's message. In 1992, TV producers Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason helped create "The Man From Hope," a campaign biography of Bill Clinton.
- 3/7/2012
- by AP
- Aol TV.
HBO's Sarah Palin-John McCain movie Game Change, with Julianne Moore playing the former Alaska governor, has competition from a feature film that will get to the screen first. It's the biopic Undefeated authorized by Palin, made by conservative filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon (Generation Zero celebrating the Tea Party movement, and In The Face Of Evil lionizing President Reagan), and set to premiere in late June in Iowa and then other early presidential primary states like New Hampshire and South Carolina and Nevada. Then the film will eventually release into between 50 and 100 markets nationwide. It may also have a DVD life since there are preliminary discussion about purchasing copies of the film from Bannon to distribute as gifts to SarahPAC donors. And Bannon is counting on a video-on-demand deal. Partisan filmmaking is a long tradition of recent presidential campaigns but usually as brief documentaries shown at Democratic National Conventions,...
- 5/25/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
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