Deadline’s Doc Talk Podcast: Directors Maite Alberdi And Kaouther Ben Hania Reveal Secrets From Their Oscar-Nominated Films
deadline.comIt’s been a busy week for Oscar-nominated documentary filmmakers Maite Alberdi and Kaouther Ben Hania. On Monday, Alberdi, director of The Eternal Memory, and Ben Hania, director of Four Daughters, joined fellow nominees at the glittering Oscar Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton.
Today, they sit down with Deadline for the latest edition of our Doc Talk podcast. In her film, Alberdi documents the relationship between two of Chile’s most prominent figures in the arts and journalism – Paulina Urrutia and Augusto Góngora – a love story that endured even as Augusto coped with advancing Alzheimer’s disease.
The director explains why she sees The Eternal Memory as “an answer” to her previous film The Mole Agent, which earned Alberdi the first Oscar nomination of her career. (She also shares news on the fictional adaptation of The Mole Agent, confirming which Hollywood star has been cast as Sergio, the lovable man charged with investigating a possible crime at an old folks home).
In Four Daughters, Ben Hania explores a story from her native Tunisia — the case of a woman named Olfa who raised four girls, only to see the two eldest fall under the sway of radical Islamist ideology and join ISIS.
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