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‘Road Diary’ Director Thom Zimny On Bruce Springsteen’s Incredible Capacity To Connect With Fans – Contenders TV: Doc, Unscripted & Variety
'Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band' documentary director Thom Zimny interview about The Boss' Incredible Capacity To Connect with fans.
The group’s latest tour forms the backbone of the Emmy-contending documentary Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, streaming on Hulu. “What made this one unique, Road Diary, was that I was coming into the process very, very early, the very beginning of these rehearsals [for the tour], and it gave me this opportunity to tell a story that was different, which was not only with sit-down interviews, but verité footage, things unfolding, being a fly on the wall in that documentary sense of watching the band come together, Bruce find this set and then the bigger part, travel with them on the road and show that full arc.” He added: “As a filmmaker, I wanted to capture this audience, and I spent a lot of time in the pit waiting and shooting in slo-mo for those facial expressions that convey that sort of emotional transition.
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