Judd Apatow on Why He Produces Documentaries Like ‘Flipside’: ‘Life Is More Fascinating Than Fiction’
variety.comAddie Morfoot Contributor In “Flipside,” documentary filmmaker Chris Wilcha grapples with personal regrets and middle age through the lens of the documentary projects he started but never finished.
The 96-minute doc, which premiered last year at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, looks at those abandoned ideas including one about television writer David Milch and his connection to jazz photographer Herman Leonard; a passion project on the New Jersey record store where Wilcha worked as a teenager and a look at radio host Ira Glass’ attempts to make a musical.
Writer/director Judd Apatow executive produced “Flipside.” Apatow met Wilcha in 2009 when he hired him to make a behind-the-scenes movie about the making of “Funny People.” Wilcha moved his family of four from New York to Los Angeles to work on the project with the idea that he would become a successful documentary filmmaker.
But when that career didn’t take off, Wilcha began a lucrative career making commercials. In “Flipside,” the director ponders his expectations and where life and time have led him.
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