New York -- Oscar winner Alex Gibney is taking off with "Gravity," a documentary about the extreme sport of Base jumping.
The director of "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will executive produce and serve as a mentor on the docu, a look at death-defying athletes who jump off buildings and cliffs. Marah Strauch directs.
The movie's credits will feature a who's who of docu-world figures: "Riding Giants" producer Jane Kachmer will produce, along with Strauch and Eric Bruggemann. Josh Braun and Dan Braun of docu sales-agent powerhouse Submarine Entertainment will exec produce.
Base jumping, begun in the 1970s by engineer-filmmaker Carl Boenish, involves an athlete who jumps off natural and manmade objects without a cushion or harness and opens a parachute late in the jump. (Base stands for buildings, antenna, span and Earth). The movie draws from footage Boenish took three decades...
The director of "Taxi to the Dark Side" and "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will executive produce and serve as a mentor on the docu, a look at death-defying athletes who jump off buildings and cliffs. Marah Strauch directs.
The movie's credits will feature a who's who of docu-world figures: "Riding Giants" producer Jane Kachmer will produce, along with Strauch and Eric Bruggemann. Josh Braun and Dan Braun of docu sales-agent powerhouse Submarine Entertainment will exec produce.
Base jumping, begun in the 1970s by engineer-filmmaker Carl Boenish, involves an athlete who jumps off natural and manmade objects without a cushion or harness and opens a parachute late in the jump. (Base stands for buildings, antenna, span and Earth). The movie draws from footage Boenish took three decades...
- 9/26/2008
- by By Steven Zeitchik
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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