Docs according to George Butler

George Butler's controversial US$1.3 million doc Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry debuts at TIFF and hits theaters in October. Friends since 1964, Butler snapped 6,000 photographs of the U.S. presidential candidate before turning his documentary efforts to the big screen, raising the question: Can he do for Kerry what he did for the Terminator? In a conversation with Kimberley Brown, the trendsetting filmmaker sounds off on private investors, books as bait, the value of going theatrical, 16mm film, and being close to one's subject.

September 1, 2004

George Butler's controversial US$1.3 million doc Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry debuts at TIFF and hits theaters in October. Friends since 1964, Butler snapped 6,000 photographs of the U.S. presidential candidate before turning his documentary efforts to the big screen, raising the question: Can he do for Kerry what he did for the Terminator? In a conversation with Kimberley Brown, the trendsetting filmmaker sounds off on private investors, books as bait, the value of going theatrical, 16mm film, and being close to one's subject.