It was November 2018 and Nanfu Wang had four weeks before picture-lock on her third feature documentary, “One Child Nation.” The film, which Wang co-directed and edited, had already been accepted to the 2019 Sundance Film Festival but wasn’t quite ready.“I was debating and really struggling with what note to end the film on,” Wang says.
“I needed a fresh set of eyes.”Enter the documentary whisperer, Mark Monroe.The University of Oklahoma journalism graduate has been the doc industry’s go-to guy for the past decade.
His writing on the 2009 Academy Award-winning “The Cove” put him on the map.“The Cove,” which received equity money from Impact Partners, was Louie Psihoyos’ first film.“The Cove” producer “Fisher Stevens wanted to bring Mark on to help restructure the film,” says Geralyn White Dreyfous, co-founder and executive producer of Impact Partners.
“At the time, Louie’s film was so linear and just straight storytelling.
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