About the Screening
From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom) Won’t You Be My Neighbor? takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this documentary is an emotional and moving film that takes you beyond zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart of a creative genius, who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination.
Includes a post-film conversation with Morgan Neville, Director.
Morgan Neville is an Academy Award, Grammy Award and Emmy Award-winning director known for his work as a cultural documentarian. His acclaimed film 20 Feet From Stardom won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Documentary as well as a Grammy Award for Best Music Film. His documentary Best of Enemies, on the debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley, was shortlisted for the 2016 Academy Award and won an Emmy Award. Neville has been nominated for four additional Grammys for his films: Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied, Johnny Cash’s America, and The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. Neville’s other films include The Cool School, Shotgun Freeway and Beauty Is Embarrassing. Recent projects include Ugly Delicious, Keith Richards: Under the Influence, Abstract: The Art of Design and Won’t You Be My Neighbor, a documentary about Fred Rogers which was released by Focus Features in 2018 and has become one of the best reviewed and highest grossing documentaries of all time. Neville's film They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, about the futile making of Orson Welles’ last film, is due in theaters and on Netflix this fall.