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Doc Talk Podcast: Filmmaker Lucy Walker Treks Everest With Amazing ‘Mountain Queen’, And Inside Doc Contenders Hoping To Scale Emmy Heights
Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast features Lucy Walker talking Mountain Queen, and an analysis of the Emmy nominations.
For Lhakpa Sherpa, who has climbed the world’s tallest peak more than any other woman, it has required even more: overcoming poverty, defying her family and Nepali culture that did not support her ambition and surviving an abusive marriage to a fellow mountaineer who nearly killed her. Director Lucy Walker, a two-time Academy Award nominee, joins the latest edition of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast to discuss her film and the remarkable woman at its heart. Walker ( Waste Land, The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, Blindsight) explains why it was “terrifying” to make her film and why the relationship between Lhakpa and her daughters Sunny and Shiny became such a key part of Mountain Queen.
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