How the Sports Film ‘Miracle’ Inspired Director Gillian Jacobs’ Disney+ Doc ‘More Than Robots’
thewrap.comHow did you get involved with the project?Seven or so years ago I directed a short documentary about this woman named Grace Hopper, who worked in computing.
And that sparked this whole interest that I have in STEM. Even though I don’t really know anything about STEM, I don’t have any technical knowledge.
I just have developed this curiosity about it. And kept going interviewing people in that world and sort of expanded into various other aspects, beyond just computing.And so, as a part of that I had interviewed a FIRST Robotics team years ago, but it was for a print publication and I never met them in person.
I didn’t get to see the robot, but I knew what the competition was. And I did an episode of a documentary series for Marvel called “616.” I had a great time doing that with my producer, Jason Sturman.And coming out of that, we were trying to think of another project to do.
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