Blair Foster

Blair Foster

Historia

Blair Foster is a filmmaker who won two Emmys for her work on the Academy Award winning film, Taxi to the Dark Side as well as an Emmy for Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World. In 2017 she directed and produced, along with Alex Gibney, Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge for HBO. She also produced the Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Foster produced the Emmy nominated Sinatra: All or Nothing at All and the Peabody Award winning Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown both directed by Alex Gibney.She is the Executive Producer of The History of the Eagles as well as We Steal Secrets: The Story of Wikileaks. In 2012 Foster produced Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream, part of the Peabody Award winning International Why Poverty series. She is the co-creator and director of The Conversation, seven short films about race published by the New York Times Op-Doc series. Blair attended graduate school for history and has a Master’s degree in documentary film from Stanford University.

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Blair Foster
Blair Foster

Películas

Take Your Pills: Xanax
Take Your Pills: Xanax
Executive Producer
Para unos, son la solución a su problema. Para otros, una maldición. En este documental, pacientes y expertos analizan los medicamentos para la ansiedad.
Take Your Pills: Xanax
Take Your Pills: Xanax
Director
Para unos, son la solución a su problema. Para otros, una maldición. En este documental, pacientes y expertos analizan los medicamentos para la ansiedad.
Totally Under Control
Totally Under Control
Consulting Producer
This documentary puts a spotlight on the White House’s failed response to the global pandemic and how it could have been prevented. Featuring damning testimony from public health officials and hard investigative reporting, director Alex Gibney reveals a system-wide collapse caused by a profound dereliction of presidential leadership.
Palabras en las paredes del baño
Palabras en las paredes del baño
Casting Associate
Un adolescente que padece esquizofrenia paranoide espera que su nuevo tratamiento con un medicamento experimental le permita llevar una vida normal tanto en el instituto como fuera de él.
A Conversation with My Black Son
A Conversation with My Black Son
Director
For generations, parents of black boys across the U.S. have rehearsed, dreaded and postponed œThe Conversation. But when their boys become teenagers, parents must decide how to handle discussions about race. In this short film originally published by The New York Times Op-Docs, parents reveal their struggles with telling their black sons that they may be targets of racial profiling by the police.
Mr. Dynamite: El Ascenso de James Brown
Mr. Dynamite: El Ascenso de James Brown
Producer
Pionero en el camino que recorre del 'rhythm and blues' al 'funky', James Brown cambió para siempre la música estadounidense. El documental "Mr Dynamite. James Brown", producido por HBO, sigue la vida del cantante desde sus primeros años en el difícil sur de Estados Unidos hasta convertirse en uno de los grandes de la música 'soul' y en uno de los talentos musicales más reconocidos del siglo XX.
Robamos secretos: La historia de WikiLeaks
Robamos secretos: La historia de WikiLeaks
Executive Producer
Documental que describe la creación del polémico sitio web de Julian Assange, que provocó la mayor violación de la seguridad en la historia de EE.UU.
Taxi al lado oscuro
Taxi al lado oscuro
Co-Producer
Documental sobre la práctica cruel de la tortura cometida por los Estados Unidos en Afganistán, Irak y la Bahía de Guantánamo (Cuba). La película cuenta como telón de fondo con la historia de un taxista afgano inocente que fue detenido, torturado y asesinado en 2002.
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost & Found
Saturday Night Live in the '80s: Lost & Found
Associate Producer
Following the departure of the show's original cast and creator after five seasons, SNL in the '80s is a look back at a decade of turbulent, often uncertain times that included the hiring and firing of several casts, numerous writers, producers and ultimately the revitalization of the show with the return of executive producer Lorne Michaels.