Remake

In Progress

For nearly forty years, Ross McElwee has made closely observed and profoundly subjective documentaries about how his personal life intersects with the world at large. But the sudden death of his son causes him to reassess his approach to filmmaking. Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee’s feature, Sherman’s March, into a work of fiction inches along.

The Filmmakers

Ross McElwee is a widely celebrated documentary filmmaker whose work blends autobiography, cultural observation, and humor. His breakthrough film Sherman’s March won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize. McElwee has made ten feature-length documentaries and received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Pennebaker Award. In 2005, MoMA presented a full retrospective of his work, later shown in Brussels, Seoul, Quito, Milan, and Moscow.

Mark Meatto is an award-winning documentary producer based in New York who began his career as Ross McElwee’s editing partner on Bright Leaves. He is a Creative Executive at Words + Pictures, where executive produced Super/man: The Christopher Reeve Story and is currently producing an eight-part series on his hometown New York Yankees for ESPN/Disney.