Kopple

Kopple is perhaps best know for her 1990 film American Dream, documenting the plight of striking Hormel workers in Minnesota.

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At the movie's premier last week, the filmmaker addressed a screening room at the Tribeca Grand Hotel packed with a who's who of documentary filmmakers, Barbara Kopple, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Kate Davis, as well as writers Erica Jong and others mesmerized by the epic dimension of the Spitzer story.

Regina Weinreich: Eliot Spitzer and the Madam Co-Star in Client 9 Regina Weinreich 2010

Over cocktails at the afterparty in the Garden Room of Michael's, another set of documentarians including Barbara Kopple and Robert Richter chatted about the inventiveness of their colleagues.

Regina Weinreich: Dream Team Documentarians Make Freakonomics Regina Weinreich 2010

Over cocktails at the afterparty in the Garden Room of Michael's, another set of documentarians including Barbara Kopple and Robert Richter chatted about the inventiveness of their colleagues.

Regina Weinreich: Dream Team Documentarians Make Freakonomics Regina Weinreich 2010

Barbara Kopple, director of Gun Fight, said there was little footage shot of Goddard for the documentary that she didn't use.

Virginia Tech survivor Colin Goddard lobbies for gun control 2011

At the movie's premier last week, the filmmaker addressed a screening room at the Tribeca Grand Hotel packed with a who's who of documentary filmmakers, Barbara Kopple, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Kate Davis, as well as writers Erica Jong and others mesmerized by the epic dimension of the Spitzer story.

Regina Weinreich: Eliot Spitzer and the Madam Co-Star in Client 9 Regina Weinreich 2010

Barbara Kopple's 1976 film, Harlan County, USA, about a coal miner's strike in Eastern Kentucky and her 1985 film American dream about the meatpackers strike against Hormel in Austin, Minnesota document just two of many instances of union-busting that has brought the percent of unionized workers in the private sector down to its current 8 percent.

Gary Anderson: Egypt and Wisconsin: Democracy is Alive and Well Gary Anderson 2011

At the movie's premier last week, the filmmaker addressed a screening room at the Tribeca Grand Hotel packed with a who's who of documentary filmmakers, Barbara Kopple, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles, Kate Davis, as well as writers Erica Jong and others mesmerized by the epic dimension of the Spitzer story.

Regina Weinreich: Eliot Spitzer and the Madam Co-Star in Client 9 Regina Weinreich 2010

Barbara Kopple, who won Academy Awards in 1977 and 1991 for her nonfiction films about striking coal miners ("Harlan County USA") and food-plant employees ("American Dream"), respectively, suggested that the form has also benefited from a change in public perception.

Documentaries Take Lead Role Steve Dollar 2011

Barbara Kopple, director of Gun Fight, said there was little footage shot of Goddard for the documentary that she didn't use.

Virginia Tech survivor Colin Goddard lobbies for gun control 2011