UPDATED PRESS RELEASE:
Academy Award® winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have composed the original theme music for the highly anticipated new SHOWTIME documentary series THE FOURTH ESTATE, directed and produced by Emmy®-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?). This marks the second time the duo have created music for SHOWTIME programming, having appeared in the 18-part limited event series TWIN PEAKS performing the original song “She’s Gone Away,” which is featured on their 2016 album Not the Actual Events.
Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross — Photo by Jason Merritt – © 2012 Getty Images
Reznor and Ross began working together as film composers on David Fincher’s The Social Network. They earned an Oscar and a Golden Globe® Award for the film’s score. They teamed with Fincher again and wrote an original score for the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The 39-track album won a Grammy® Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. The duo also scored Fincher’s 2014 adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl. In 2016, they teamed with Gustavo Santaolalla and Mogwai to create original music for the feature documentary Before the Flood. Earlier that same year, Reznor and Ross wrote the original score for Patriots Day. Recently, Reznor and Ross collaborated with celebrated documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on the eight-hour docuseries The Vietnam War.
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If you’ve ever wondered about the “fake news,” as Donald Trump likes to call it, The Fourth Estate is the docu-series you want to watch. Emmy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus goes behind the scenes at The New York Times as it covers the first year of Mr. Trump’s presidency.
Check out the official press release from Showtime below.
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THE FOURTH ESTATE, A SHOWTIME® DOCUMENTARY SERIES,
RECEIVES DISTINCTION OF CLOSING THE PRESTIGIOUS TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL
Groundbreaking Series Examines The Inner Workings Of The New York Times During President Trump’s First Year
Series Directed By Award-Winning Filmmaker Liz Garbus
Will Make Its Television Debut On May 27 On SHOWTIME
Behind the scenes at The New York Times in Showtime’s The Fourth Estate. Photo by: T.J. Kirkpatrick/SHOWTIME
LOS ANGELES – March 7, 2018 – SHOWTIME announced today that new original documentary series, THE FOURTH ESTATE, directed and produced by Emmy®-winning and Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus (What Happened, Miss Simone?), will have its world premiere at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival, receiving the distinction of being selected as the Festival’s closing night film. Following its screening on Saturday, April 28, Tribeca Film Festival will host a panel discussion with some of the subjects of the documentary including The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet, Washington bureau chief Elisabeth Bumiller, White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, Washington investigative correspondent Mark Mazzetti and Garbus. Following its Tribeca Film Festival world premiere, THE FOURTH ESTATE will premiere on Sunday, May 27 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on SHOWTIME.
A scene from the SHOWTIME original documentary series THE FOURTH ESTATE. – Photo: T.J. Kirkpatrick/SHOWTIME — Pictured: Elisabeth Bumiller, Washington bureau chief, and White House correspondent Michael D. Shear work in the newsroom as THE FOURTH ESTATE crew films at The New York Times bureau in Washington, D.C., before the president’s State of the Union address on January 30, 2018.
In these times when journalism is being questioned and attacked as “fake news,” Garbus turns her lens on The New York Times in THE FOURTH ESTATE, revealing the challenges, triumphs and pitfalls of covering a president who has declared the majority of the nation’s major news outlets “the enemy of the people.” Embedded for the past year with The Times and granted unprecedented access and interviews with editors and reporters on the front lines, the docuseries presents a groundbreaking portrait of the men and women who are fighting for freedom of the press. Viewers will witness the inner workings of journalism and investigative reporting during this administration’s first history-making year. THE FOURTH ESTATE is produced for SHOWTIME by RadicalMedia and Moxie Firecracker Films, in association with Impact Partners, with Jenny Carchman (Long Strange Trip) and Justin Wilkes (What Happened, Miss Simone?) also serving as producers. Jon Kamen, Dave Sirulnick and Dan Cogan serve as executive producers.
Garbus is an Oscar, Grammy® and Directors Guild Award-nominated and an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director. Her film, What Happened, Miss Simone?, was the opening film at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for a 2016 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature, and received a Peabody Award and four Primetime Emmy nominations (including Best Directing for Garbus), winning the Emmy for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special. Her most recent film, Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper, had its world premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Garbus’ past work includes Love, Marilyn and Bobby Fischer Against the World. Garbus produced the documentary short Killing in the Name, directed by her partner Rory Kennedy and nominated for an Academy Award. Garbus received her first Emmy and Oscar nominations in 1998 when she won international public and critical acclaim for her film about prison life in America, The Farm: Angola, USA. Her directing credits include Girlhood, The Execution of Wanda Jean, The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Coma, Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech and There’s Something Wrong with Aunt Diane. Producing credits include Street Fight and Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.
Packages and passes for the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival can be purchased online at tribecafilm.com/festival/tickets.
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