Intrepid documentarians have spied on a mass dolphin slaughter (in “The Cove”), faced off against the food industry (in “Food, Inc.”) and braved the heights of Mount Everest in the sort of antique tweeds worn by men who died there in the 1920s (in “The Wildest Dream”).
Now one is onto something truly difficult: an unauthorized film about Harvey Weinstein.
Barry Avrich, a Canadian filmmaker and marketing executive perhaps best known as the writer and director of “The Last Mogul,” a no-holds-barred 2005 documentary about the entertainment kingpin Lew R. Wasserman, has lined up backing for a similar portrait of Mr. Weinstein, the Miramax Films co-founder who currently oversees the Weinstein Company with his brother, Bob.
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