Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorFilmmakers Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw wore multiple hats to capture the lives of truffle hunters in Italy’s Piedmont region, acting as directors, writers, producers and cinematographers.Dweck and Kershaw’s Oscar-shortlisted documentary “The Truffle Hunters,” which opens Friday in theaters, follows several elderly men who have devoted their lives to searching out the increasingly rare fungi.
It took three years to capture the 107 shots that feature in the movie. Dweck and Kershaw wanted to present the documentary “like a storybook” which was influenced by Italian Renaissance painters.
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