Directors Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw didn’t necessarily get much sleep when they were making their Sony Pictures Classics documentary The Truffle Hunters, about superannuated men and their dogs in Italy who search for the subterranean delicacy.“Usually truffle hunting’s done in the middle of the night, in complete darkness,” Kershaw says during Sony Pictures Classics’ panel for the film at Deadline’s Contenders Documentary awards-season event. “They go out alone with their dog and it’s very hilly, this area.
Sometimes it’s just sheer cliffs.”But for the filmmakers there were benefits.“The joy was sometimes at the end of a long night of being out with them they would reward us with a breakfast of truffles and eggs,” Kershaw says.
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