"I was running a fever of rage over how badly the [COVID-19] response was being handled by the federal government," says the Oscar- and Emmy-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney onThe Hollywood Reporter'sAwards Chatter podcast as we discuss what inspired his latest documentary, Totally Under Control, which he directed with his Jigsaw Productions colleagues Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger.
The trio began work on the film last spring with the goal of determining if the deadly mistakes of PresidentDonald Trump and his administration had been avoidable, and then sharing their findings with the world before the Nov.
3 presidential election. Says Gibney, "It felt like if that was true, and we're in an election year, then this is important.
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