Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

Followed by a live Q&A with director Nanette Burstein

ELIZABETH TAYLOR: THE LOST TAPES offers an unprecedented exploration into the life of Elizabeth Taylor, Hollywood’s quintessential star. With extraordinary access to Taylor’s personal archives and seventy hours of newly-unearthed intimate audio, these candid conversations peel back the layers of one of cinema’s most enduring icons, revealing a woman at odds with her public image, yearning for respect and agency. Foregoing traditional talking heads, the film allows Elizabeth’s own voice to narrate her story and challenges audiences to reconsider Taylor’s legacy, presenting her not just as a film icon but as a trailblazer who leveraged her stardom for humanitarian efforts, effecting real change in the world.

Nanette Burstein began her documentary career directing the award-winning film, On the Ropes, which received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary, won the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, and received the DGA award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. Shortly after, she co-directed the award-winning Robert Evans biography, The Kid Stays in the Picture. She produced and directed a five-part documentary series with Quincy Jones Say it Loud: Black Music in America and executive produced VH1’s Rock Doc NY77: The Coolest Year in Hell, which was nominated for two Emmy awards. Continuing her success in the documentary field, her film, American Teen, earned the Documentary Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival and The Price of Gold, an ESPN 30 for 30 on Tonya Harding, won an Emmy and Best Documentary at the Cinema Eye awards. In 2016, she directed the feature documentary for Showtime, Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee, about the eccentric millionaire who was implicated in a murder. In 2020, she directed the four-part series, Hillary, about Hillary Clinton that earned the Critics’ Choice Award and an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Non-Fiction series. In 2022, she directed the three-part documentary series, Killer Sally, that aired on Netflix   She recently completed the feature documentary Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes for HBO. She is currently making a feature documentary about Carl Sagan for National Geographic. 

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