Facts About Women's History

I still don't really know a lot about women's history because it was never something they taught when I was in school. And they still don't do a very good job of teaching it in school. So those kinds of things always fascinate me because I love history. {pause} So with this mini-series, how many episodes are you planning?

wp-1474256234630.pngRight now, we're thinking about ten episodes. That's the number we have in mind. It is scripted, and there will be actors. It's not a documentary. We are filming the women now, while we still have them, to be part of our special features on the DVD. There have been quite a number of documentaries in short form. I think PBS did a long documentary. But we really want to get away from the documentary style only …show more content…
I have seen some amazing documentaries. Don't get me wrong. I love documentaries. I go to Sundance every year, and I have seen some incredible documentaries or non-fiction films. A lot of documentaries do tell a great story, but it's different when it's a story because there are so many different elements that an audience could grab onto and make it their own. Then it does become more a give and take between us--the storytellers, the filmmakers--and the audience. You know, you create this thing and put it out there, and you perceive it differently from what someone else might. And that's great. It's what you pick up on and what's going to be important to you. It's going to be different how I experience it or whatever's important to me. With a documentary, it's like you're given the subject. They're real people. It depends on how the documentarian goes about it. If they're more like a reporter and have two sides to it...it just depends now. Some non-fiction films really follow through the people as characters. You just sort of follow along their life, their story, their journey. But it's not so much their side or their viewpoint. It's like this is what they're