How the Sports Film ‘Miracle’ Inspired Director Gillian Jacobs’ Disney+ Doc ‘More Than Robots’
19.03.2022 - 19:23
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How did you get involved with the project?Seven or so years ago I directed a short documentary about this woman named Grace Hopper, who worked in computing. And that sparked this whole interest that I have in STEM. Even though I don’t really know anything about STEM, I don’t have any technical knowledge.
I just have developed this curiosity about it. And kept going interviewing people in that world and sort of expanded into various other aspects, beyond just computing.And so, as a part of that I had interviewed a FIRST Robotics team years ago, but it was for a print publication and I never met them in person. I didn’t get to see the robot, but I knew what the competition was.
And I did an episode of a documentary series for Marvel called “616.” I had a great time doing that with my producer, Jason Sturman.And coming out of that, we were trying to think of another project to do. When we heard that Lucasfilm was sponsoring the 2020 season of FIRST Robotics, I was like, “Oh, I know FIRST, I know this.” I have this sort of baseline knowledge of the world of STEM or things around it. And I thought it was really compelling and interesting, and so that was the circumstances that led to this film.What was it like working with Lucasfilm?It was surreal.
It’s surreal to have a Lucasfilm logo on your project. I mean they were amazing partners in this. Clearly they really love and believe in FIRST Robotics.
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