Meet the 2014 Tribeca Filmmakers #47: Phillip Schopper and Keith Patterson Harness the Story in ‘All About Ann’
Phillip Schopper began making films as a child with his parents’ 8mm camera. He edited his first feature-length documentary, the much acclaimed music film “Heartworn Highways,” in 1976. Through the years he has worked in production or post production on many feature films including “Prince of the City,” “Resurrection,” “Nine to Five,” “Reds,” and “Ishtar.” He’s bringing “All About Ann: Governor Richards of the Lone Star State” to Tribeca this year.
Tell us about yourself: Schopper: I’ve been an editor on projects for PBS, Bravo and A&E. At ABC I was a senior editor for the DuPont Award winning series “Hopkins 24/7” as well as the Emmy nominated “NYPD 24/7.” More recently I’ve edited many documentaries for HBO including the Emmy winning “Teddy: In His Own Words” and the Emmy nominated profile of Gloria Steinem, “Gloria: In Her Own Words.”
Patterson: Accumulating our massive amount of archive materials. Many news stations in Texas erased or threw out their tapes when the conglomeration of media companies happened in the mid 1990’s. We had an amazing associate producer, Nancy Talcott, that drove all over Texas – climbing through attics and “storage” facilities where tapes sat to melt in the Texas heat. The stations didn’t even have machines to play most of the tape formats anymore, so she brought it all back to HBO where Phil and I sat combing through and ingesting 100’s of hours of tape into the AVID. Some tapes were so damaged we had to send them to be repaired. Many things we were told were “lost” we ultimately found. The movie is almost all archive.
Indiewire invited Tribeca Film Festival directors to tell us about
their films, including what inspired them, the challenges they faced and
what they’re doing next. We’ll be publishing their responses leading up
to the 2014 festival. Go HERE to read all the entries.
