Slideshow
OBIT Filmmaker VANESSA GOULD with Subject/Former New York Times Obituaries Writer BRUCE WEBER
Friday, April 28, 7:00 show (Q&A) & 9:20 show (Intro)
In 30 years at The New York Times, Bruce Weber was an editor for the Sunday magazine, a metro reporter, a national arts correspondent, a recreation reporter and a theater columnist and critic – all of which were mere prelude to his final assignment as an obituary writer. Formerly a fiction editor at Esquire and the editor of “Look Who's Talking: An Anthology of Voices in the Modern American Short Story,” he is the co-author, with the dancer Savion Glover, of “Savion! My Life in Tap” and the author of two books of non-fiction – “As They See ’Em: A Fan’s Travels in the Land of Umpires,” a New York Times bestseller; and a memoir, “Life Is a Wheel: Love, Death, Etc., and a Bike Ride Across America.” He is at work on a biography of one of his obituary subjects, the novelist E.L. Doctorow.
Vanessa Gould is a filmmaker and editor working in Brooklyn. In addition to OBIT., she recently produced and shot for Showtime's Emmy®-winning Years of Living Dangerously, a documentary series about climate change executive produced by James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gould's previous film Between the Folds premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens in December 2009 and was re-broadcast the following season. In 2010, it received a Peabody Award. Between the Folds continues to screen at film festivals and art and science museums around the world. It has been translated into more than ten languages and broadcast in dozens of countries. She studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and art history, architecture and physics at Columbia University. She paints occasionally, and follows traditional music from around the world.