David Holbrooke spent more than a decade in network news including nearly five years at The Today Show. After a short and unsuccessful stint at a dotcom, he became a filmmaker. He made several short films about religion (www.originalthinkers.com) and also directed the PBS special The Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra. His wife and kids regularly go to church in Brooklyn ... Holbrooke does not.
Hard As Nails marks David Holbrooke's feature-length documentary directorial debut. He has several films in development but will also be spending his time as the newly-named festival director of Mountainfilm in Telluride.
Tonight at 8pm Eastern, one of the stranger relationships of my life will enter a new phase.
Tonight - and through January - HBO will air Hard As Nails, a documentary I directed about an incredibly charismatic and compelling Catholic lay-minister named Justin Fatica. In the film, Justin...
This column is a bit of a hustle to get you to come to the Tribeca Film Festival to see the World Premiere of our documentary, Hard As Nails. You see hustling is in the job description for filmmakers.
Posted December 17, 2007 | 01:10 PM (EST)