‘Frank Capra: Mr America’ Filmmakers On Why Their Candid Doc Of A Complicated Hollywood Legend Will Speak To Modern Audiences — Venice
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Frank Capra has long been considered one Hollywood’s most successful, influential and complex film directors and, in the new feature documentary Frank Capra: Mr America, which is premiering at the Venice Film Festival later this week, audiences will get a chance to view previously unseen archives that examine the Sicilian-born director’s rags-to-riches story whilst unpicking his complicated relationship with America.
The documentary, which is screening in the Venice Classics section on September 1, is the debut feature from British director Matthew Wells.
It chronicles Capra from his humble beginnings as a young and penniless immigrant who rose through the ranks of Hollywood to become one of America’s greatest storytellers through films such as Oscar-winning It Happened One Night to Mr.
Smith Goes to Washington and the now Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Producer Nick Varley, former co-founder of UK-based back-catalogue and classics distribution outfit Park Circus, first brought the idea of the project to Wells during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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