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‘Francesco’ Director Evgeny Afineevsky On Interviewing Pope Francis For Discovery+ Documentary: “He Allowed Me To Tackle Any Issues”

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The head of Discovery+ is bullish on high-end nonfiction content.“We’re investing in premium documentaries, a genre that we know our subscribers want more of,” Lisa Holme, group SVP of content and commercial strategy for Discovery, said Thursday at the streamer’s Winter Press Tour presentation.

She added, “That allows us to support some of the best storytellers in the business.”Among those acclaimed storytellers is Oscar-nominated filmmaker Evgeny Afineevsky (Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, Cries From Syria), whose latest documentary, Francesco, premieres on Discovery+ on March 28.

The film examines Pope Francis’s moral leadership on many of the most important problems facing the world.“From the beginning the idea was to have

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