PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS
Two Part Documentary Series, Hulu /ABC News Studios
Sundance Film Festival
Additional Editor
Director: Lana Wilson
Producers: Christine O'Malley, Jack Turner
Executive Producers: Ali Wentworth, Alyssa Mastromonaco, George Stephanopoulos, Jay Peterson, Todd Lubin, Jacqueline Glover, Jennifer Joseph, Lana Wilson
Winner:
Cinema Eye Honors, Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Editing
Primetime Emmy® Award Nominations:
Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program
Outstanding Directing for a Documentary Nonfiction Program
Critics' Choice Documentary Award Nomination:
Best Biographical Documentary
Cinema Eye Honors Nominations:
Outstanding Broadcast Film
PRESS
"The best scene in the documentary, by a wide margin,
is a dinner in which Shields and her daughters try to make sense of what was progressive and what was regressive about her early career; it’s funny, relaxed and still welcomely analytical. " [Scene edited by David Cohen]
-THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"The impromptu dinner conversation that takes place is touching and revelatory... a documentary of fascinating depth…supremely well crafted…by the end of “Pretty Baby,” you do know who the real Brooke is. The film attains a cumulative power that’s quite moving.”
-VARIETY
"Near its conclusion, one of the movie’s most heartwarming scenes finds her engaged in candid dinner table conversation with her two daughters, exchanging perspectives on the nudity and overt sexualization of her early filmography. This sequence leaves viewers in a settled place, exhilarated for her health and happiness on a personal level and hopeful about intergenerational dialogues that might shape a world that better respects and protects childhood innocence."
- GOLDEN GLOBES.COM
“The family dinner scene is so remarkable…it’s just an incredible scene”
- DOC NYC
"CRITIC’S PICK. Absorbing…a biography of Shields with lucid insights into the culture that shaped her. Builds a mood of reminiscence gone rancid, and suggests a generation of women transformed by the prototypes society boxed them into."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Poignant…a remarkable story of resilience"
- ROLLING STONE
"The best of the (biopics) by far…excellent structuring."
-ROGEREBERT.COM, from the Sundance Film Festival
"Insightful, well-crafted, and inspirational."
RICHARD ROEPER, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES