DAVID COHEN

 DIRECTOR | EDITOR

DAVID COHEN

 DIRECTOR | EDITOR  

PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS
Two Part Documentary Series, Hulu /ABC News Studios
Sundance Film Festival

Additional Editor

Director:   Lana Wilson
Producers:   Christine O'Malley, Jack Turner

Executive Producers:   Ali Wentworth, Alyssa Mastromonaco, George Stephanopoulos, Jay Peterson, Todd Lubin, Jacqueline Glover, Jennifer Joseph, Lana Wilson


Winner:

Cinema Eye Honors, Outstanding Achievement in Broadcast Editing


Primetime Emmy® Award Nominations: 

Outstanding Picture Editing for a Nonfiction Program

Outstanding Directing for a Documentary Nonfiction Program


Critics' Choice Documentary Award Nomination:

Best Biographical Documentary


Cinema Eye Honors Nominations:

Outstanding Broadcast Film

PRESS

On Cohen's dinner scene: 
"The best scene in the documentary, by a wide margin, is a dinner in which Shields and her daughters try to make sense of what was progressive and what was regressive about her early career; it’s funny, relaxed and still welcomely analytical. " 
-THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER 

"“A documentary of fascinating depth…supremely well crafted…touching and revelatory… by the end of “Pretty Baby,” you do know who the real Brooke is. The film attains a cumulative power that’s quite moving.”
-VARIETY

"CRITIC’S PICK. Absorbing…a biography of Shields with lucid insights into the culture that shaped her. Builds a mood of reminiscence gone rancid, and suggests a generation of women transformed by the prototypes society boxed them into."
- THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Poignant…a remarkable story of resilience"
- ROLLING STONE

"The best of the (biopics) by far…excellent structuring."
-ROGEREBERT.COM, from the Sundance Film Festival

"Insightful, well-crafted, and inspirational."
RICHARD ROEPER, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES

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