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SCREENINGS AT TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2015
Public Screenings
World Premiere Screening & Tribeca Talks program
Thursday, April 23 at 6:30 PM at SVA Theater 1 (School of Visual Arts)
After the movie: Stay for a conversation with director David Holbrooke,
producer Stacey Reiss, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, Ronan Farrow,
Special Advisor to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, 2009-2011. Panel
Discussion moderated by Katie Couric, Global News Anchor, Yahoo! News.
Saturday, April 25 at 6:00 PM at Bow Tie Cinemas Chelsea (Theater 7)
Followed by filmmaker Q&A
Sunday, April 26 at 3:00 PM at Regal Battery Park Stadium 11 (Theater 6)
Followed by filmmaker Q&A
Press & Industry Screenings
Friday, April 24 at 9:15 AM at Regal Battery Park Stadium 11 (Theater 5)
Saturday, April 25 at 9:15 AM at Regal Battery Park Stadium 11 (Theater 5)
HBO DEBUT: FALL 2015
HBO will air THE DIPLOMAT this fall in commemoration of the 20th
anniversary of the Dayton Peace Accords, which ended the war in Bosnia and was
one of Richard Holbrooke’s greatest foreign policy achievements.
The Diplomat is not only a telling and forceful reminder of the singular political
achievements of a complicated man, once dubbed the diplomatic hope of a
generation, but also a unique and moving story of a son’s love for – and personal
coming-to-terms with – an all-too-imperfect father whose work and exceptional
career achievements more often than not took precedence over his family.
—Tim Sika, SFFS.org
SYNOPSIS
With the insightful and revealing documentary The Diplomat, David Holbrooke
attempts the seemingly insurmountable: capturing the legacy of his larger-thanlife father, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, while traveling across the globe to
reveal an inside view of U.S. foreign policy. Holbrooke’s career spanned fifty
years of American foreign policy. The documentary takes us behind the scenes of
high stakes diplomacy where peace is waged and wars are ended, including in
Vietnam, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.
Interviewing an impressive array of world leaders (including the sitting
presidents of Afghanistan and Bosnia), David grapples with Holbrooke’s public
versus private personas, creating a sensitive portrait of fatherhood, ambition and
the force required to affect change throughout the world. An HBO Documentary
Film.
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The Diplomat features interviews with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Secretary of State John Kerry, former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and
Henry Kissinger, President Bill Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, UN Ambassador
Samantha Power, Diane Sawyer, General David Petreaus and many more.
Interviews with General Wesley Clark and journalist Roger Cohen were filmed on
location in Bosnia, while Dexter Filkins traveled with the production to
Afghanistan.
INTERVIEWS
UNITED STATES Secretary Madeleine Albright, Christiane Amanpour, Rina Amiri, President Bill
Clinton, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Tom Donilon, Ronan Farrow, Dan Feldman,
Les Gelb, Vice President Al Gore, Ambassador Chris Hill, Ambassador Husain
Haqqani, Andrew Holbrooke, Anthony Holbrooke, Litty Holbrooke, Jim
Johnson, Stan Karnow, Secretary John Kerry, Secretary Henry Kissinger, Joe
Klein, Kati Marton, Vali Nasr, George Packer, General David Petraeus,
Ambassador Samantha Power, David Rohde, Barnett Rubin, Diane Sawyer,
Strobe Talbott, Ambassador Frank Wisner, Bob Woodward BOSNIA & KOSOVO & CROATIA General Wesley Clark, Roger Cohen, Mate Granic, President Bakir Izetbegovic,
Mayor Agron Kuci, President Haris Silajdzic AFGHANISTAN Nancy Hatch Dupree, Dexter Filkins, President Ashraf Ghani VIETNAM Vlad Lehovich EUROPE Secretary General Kofi Annan, General Douglas Lute, Ernesto Moos, George
Packer ABOUT THE FILMMAKERS
David Holbrooke (Director) is a filmmaker and Festival Director of
Mountainfilm in Telluride, CO since 2008. His last film, “Hard as Nails,” aired on
HBO in December 2007. Other documentaries include “Freaks Like Me,” “Time
for a New God” and “A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn,” featuring acclaimed nature
photographer James Balog. All are part of an ongoing series he created called
“Original Thinkers.” Other notable projects include “The Soul of Healing with
Deepak Chopra” and co-producing “The Trials of Henry Kissinger.” Before he
became a filmmaker, David spent a year in the dotcom world and previously,
worked extensively in television news, producing long-form pieces for “The
Today Show,” CBS News and CNN. David has been a contributing editor at GQ
and written for the Huffington Post. His production company, Giraffe Partners, is
developing narrative features and several documentaries. He lives in Telluride,
Col. with his wife and three kids.
Stacey Reiss (Producer) is an Emmy Award®-winning filmmaker who has
written, directed and produced documentaries and long form programs for HBO,
NBC, WNET, CNBC, National Geographic and The Weather Channel. Her current
documentaries include “The Diplomat” and “It's Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew
Eloise,” which both air on HBO in 2015. She produced “I Knew It Was You,”
about the late actor John Cazale (“Fredo" in the Godfather movies), which
premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and aired on HBO in 2010 and
“Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent,” about the Jewish leader who helped
organize the March on Washington. Stacey writes, directs and produces for the
documentary series Treasures of New York on WNET (PBS in New York). For
more than a decade at Dateline NBC, Stacey produced award-winning
documentaries, breaking news reports and network specials. Credits include “The
Last Days of Jesus,” “Vision Quest” (Front Page award, Best Documentary) and
“The Long Road Home” (Emmy® nominee). She also produces documentary style
campaigns for corporate clients, which have included KKR, Comcast, the Reebok
Foundation and Diageo. Stacey holds a journalism degree from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison and was a Harvard Medical School Journalism Fellow. Her
Brooklyn based company, Stacey Reiss Productions, specializes in producing
non-fiction content.
CREDITS
Writer and Director: David Holbrooke
Producer: Stacey Reiss
Editor: Seth Bomse
In Memory: Richard C. Holbrooke
For HBO Executive Producer: Sheila Nevins
For HBO Senior Producer: Nancy Abraham
Executive Producer: Scott Berrie
Executive Producer: Tom Freston
Executive Producer: Barbara and Andrew Gundlach
Executive Producer: Marshall Sonenshine
Executive Producer: Louis Venezia
Original Score: Graham Reynolds
Co-Producers: Sarah Holbrooke, Emily McAllister
Archival Producer: Jane Tucker
Associate Producers: Julian Feller-Cohen, Amani Vance
HBO Documentary Films
Giraffe Partners
Stacey Reiss Productions
ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE COURTESY OF: ABCNEWS VIDEO SOURCE, Associated
Press, CBS News, Charlie Rose, CNN, The Colbert Report courtesy of Comedy
Central © 2007 Comedy Parnters All Rights Reserved, Jay Corcoran/Corcoran
Productions, Council on Foreign Relations, CSPAN, ITN Source, ITN
Source/Reuters, National Archives and Records Administration, NBCUniversal
Archive, Ohio DCOWA, RTS Radio Television of Serbia, US Department of State,
US Department of Defense, The White House, WTOP Radio/Washington DC,
University of Sydney: James Der Derian/Jose Torrealba
Additional Archival Material Courtesy of: AP Images, Bebe Bischoff, Brown
University, Jimmy Carter Presidental Library/Courtesy: Jimmy Carter
Presidential Library, William J. Clinton Presidential Library/Courtesy: William J.
Clinton Presidential Library, Articles by David Rohde. Reprinted with permission
from the Christian Science Monitor. © 1995 The Christian Science Monitor
Jodi Cobb, Corbis Images, Hidajet Degi Delic, Fehim Demir, Foreign Policy
Magazine, Getty Images, Franz Hirsch, Andrew Holbrooke, Anthony Holbrooke,
David Holbrooke, Litty Holbrooke, ISAF Media, Trudi Kearl, Milomir Kovacevic,
Danilo Krstanovic, Brigitte Lacombe, Vlad Lehovich, Kati Marton, Minehanullstein bild/Granger, NYC, Viviane Moos, Thomas Munita/The New York
Times/Redux The New York Times © The New York Times Company, Magnum
Photos by Burt Glinn + Eric Lissing, Lou Mintz, Morgan O'Brien, Newscom/Sipa,
Newscom/UPI, Reuters, Brian W. Schlumbohm, Aric Schwan, Ben Skinner, The
US Embassy/Afghanistan, The United Nations, US Department of Defense, US
Department of State, The Washington Post, Official White House Photos by
Yoichi R. Okamoto, Official White House Photos by Pete Souza, Washington Life
Magazine
MUSIC
“Let's Win!”
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“Man on Fire”
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“Let's Get High”
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“On the Road Again”
Written by Willie Nelson
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