Filmmaker Magazine: “Forgiveness is a Big Part of the Movie”: Director Lynne Sachs on her Slamdance-Premiering Doc, Film About a Father Who

I guess in filmmaking there’s a thin line between voyeurism and intimacy.

LRMOnline: Film About A Father Who Documentary: Director Lynne Sachs Interview | Slamdance 2020

When I started making the film, I didn’t know what I was talking about. [Laughs] You can’t be on a mission about your own life. It’s not like writing a novel, and you know what the ending is going to be. I didn’t know that the last two years would go in the direction that it did. I just kept doing it.

Salt Lake Dirt: An Interview with Filmmaker Lynne Sachs

So I kept collecting footage or shooting footage but not watching it. And then about two years ago I said, “I really have to start going through this.” I could see my dad getting older. But I’m getting older at exactly the same rate and so are you.

The Movable Fest: Slamdance 2020 Interview: Lynne Sachs on a Subject Close Enough to Feel Far in “Film About a Father Who”

In conventional documentaries, you sit someone down and ask them questions and then they reflect and they deliver it back, as demanded. That wasn’t the way I was able to capture most of the material from my dad.

Filmwax: Podcast Interview with Lynne Sachs by Adam Schartoff

The filmmaker Lynne Sachs makes her 3rd visit to the podcast to discuss her most personal film yet, something she’s been working on most of her life, a film about her father Ira Sachs, Sr.

The Park Record: Park City’s enigmatic businessman Ira Sachs is subject of Slamdance opener

Although Lynne had been working on the film for the past three decades, she knew that audiences would eventually see it and learn about some of her family’s dynamics and secrets.

Slamdance Festival’s opening film features a daughter exploring her father’s secrets

Sachs said she hopes people will see her father as a unique character, but not that different from most dads.

She said, “I want people who watch it to imagine, ‘Well, how might I explore my father? What would be the questions I would ask? Maybe there were things he kept from me, because maybe he was protecting me — or maybe he had a side he didn’t want me to know.’”