BYOD: Bring Your Own Doc
Episode 231
Documentarian Jeff Zimbalist on THE TWO ESCOBARS and FAVELA RISING
THE TWO ESCOBARS and FAVELA RISING documentary director Jeff Zimbalist shares his films with trailers, clips and insight behind his enthralling movies. From Pablo Escobar and the Medellin Cartel’s grip on Colombian soccer, to the struggle for survival in the slums of Brasil-we go deep on his films and also discuss YOUNGSTOWN BOYS and ARNOLD’S BLUEPRINT, which explores Arnold Schwarzenegger, in this uncensored BYOD interview, hosted by Ondi Timoner.
Episode Breakdown
00:01 Welcoming Jeff Zimbalist to BYOD.
00:38 THE TWO ESCOBARS, 30 for 30 and Narco-Soccer.
02:30 Pablo Escobar, “A champion of the poor”.
03:18 THE TWO ESCOBARS, Clip: Pablo at The Copa Libertadores.
05:33 Money, soccer and redefining Columbia.
06:57 Interviewing family, footballers, and hitmen.
08:37 THE TWO ESCOBARS, Clip: “Popeye”.
10:07 Pablo and Popeye.
11:18 THE TWO ESCOBARS, Clip: Pablo’s backstory.
13:55 The deaths of Pablo Escobar and Andres Escobar.
16:20 THE TWO ESCOBARS, Clip: The Colombian soccer team.
18:22 Andres Escobar’s goal and death threats.
20:20 Challenges with the films and “The Black Hand”.
21:55 Guns and gaining access within the favelas.
23:40 FAVELA RISING, Clip: Life in the Favelas.
28:18 One camera interviews and shooting techniques.
30:33 Gangs, status and creating art.
32:42 FAVELA RISING, Clip: Art and love.
34:53 YOUNGSTOWN BOYS, a father son story.
37:10 Professional sports and drug abuse.
38:45 YOUNGSTOWN BOYS, Clip: The press conference.
40:08 Personal connections to the film.
41:02 YOUNGSTOWN BOYS, Clip: The police chase.
43:42 Themes in Jeff’s films and subjectivity vs objectivity.
48:39 Interviewing Arnold Schwarzenegger.
50:09 Thank you and goodbye.
50:58 ARNOLD’S BLUEPRINT, Clip: Arnold’s dreams.
Guest Bio
Jeff Zimbalist is an Emmy Award nominated writer, director, and editor whose films have been broadcast on HBO, Cinemax, PBS, Channel 4 in the UK, the BBC, Current TV, BET, and WE television, as well as theatrically distributed throughout North America, Europe, South America, Australia and Asia. Jeff´s work has been featured at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Massachusetts, the Museum of Fine Art in Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art in London.
Jeff’s production company, All Rise LLC, has produced international documentaries on third world development issues for clients such as the United Nations Development Program’s South Asian Poverty Alleviation Project, the infoDev pilot program of the World Bank, and Legatum Global Capital. Jeff teaches at the Maine Photographic Workshops and The New York Film Academy and was a 2006 Ford Foundation grantee.
Jeff is currently working on a narrative feature he wrote and will direct with his brother, Michael Zimbalist, and developing a 3D IMAX film on Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro with Quincy Jones. Jeff’s segment on The Addiction Project, HBO’s 14 part series on drug abuse, premiered in 2007.
Hosts
Comments