Marina Zenovich is an American filmmaker known for her biographical documentaries.
21 Facts About Marina Zenovich
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Marina Zenovich's films include LANCE, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which won two Emmy awards.
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Marina Zenovich's sister is actress Ninon Zenovich.
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Marina Zenovich studied acting at the William Esper Studio in Manhattan, furthering her studies with Ron Burrus and Stella Adler.
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Marina Zenovich later acted in several movies including Robert Altman's The Player and actress Talia Shire's One Night Stand.
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Marina Zenovich is the voice of a rubber band in the 2011 children's film Bands on the Run.
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In 1997, Marina Zenovich began working as a segment producer on John Pierson's TV series Split Screen, which was broadcast on the Independent Film Channel.
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Marina Zenovich's documentary explores the struggles of independent filmmakers and includes interviews with Steven Soderbergh, Greg Mottola, Tom DiCillo, Eric Schaeffer, Sydney Pollack, Parker Posey, Roger Ebert, John Pierson, among others.
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Lelouch mentioned that the star of the film, Bernard Tapie, was in jail, prompting Marina Zenovich to find out why.
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Marina Zenovich was profiled in The New York Times about her quest to make the documentary.
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Marina Zenovich traveled the world filming profiles of artists as they prepared for major exhibitions.
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Marina Zenovich came up with the subject of her next documentary film, after reading a story in the Los Angeles Times in 2003.
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Since her documentary about the film director was being used as evidence, Marina Zenovich decided to continue shooting the story.
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Marina Zenovich filmed Samantha Gailey and her mother in Hawaii, and planned on meeting Polanski for an interview.
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The documentary premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 where Marina Zenovich participated in a discussion with Tracy Morgan, Wyatt Cenac, Walter Mosley and Jennifer Pryor.
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In 2014, Marina Zenovich addressed another controversial story, the 2006 Duke Lacrosse scandal.
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In 2018, Marina Zenovich returned to Sundance for the third time with her HBO feature documentary, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind.
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Marina Zenovich recorded interviews with Whoopi Goldberg, David Letterman and Billy Crystal, among others.
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Marina Zenovich included outtakes and little known clips from Williams' stand-up routines, after sifting through a large amount of archival footage.
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In 2020, Marina Zenovich returned to Sundance with her two-part film LANCE for ESPN.
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For Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Marina Zenovich won two Emmys for writing and directing for non-fiction programming.