Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg: Q&A with Filmmakers

WFTV members are invited to this online discussion with filmmakers Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill on their recent documentary, Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg. The portrait of a dazzling and irrepressible woman who helped create the DNA of rock 'n' roll. The Q&A will be moderated by Georgie Rogers.

There will be an opportunity to ask Alexis and Svetlana questions during the last 15 minutes of the session.

You can watch Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg in cinemas from 17th May. 

Event Schedule

18:25: Please join the webinar waiting room

18:30: In conversation with filmmakers Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill.

19:15: Audience Q&A

19:30: Finish

Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg, Synopsis

This intimate portrait reveals the story of an unapologetic rock ‘n’ roller, actress, muse and mother who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on words from her unpublished memoir, narrated by actress Scarlett Johansson, Anita draws us deep into her world, with the help of a supporting cast that includes her family - Marlon, Angela, and their father Keith Richards. Never-seen-before home movies and family photographs explore life with the Rolling Stones, in a bittersweet tale of both triumph and heartbreak. From Barbarella to the Swiss Alps, and the Lower East Side of New York, Anita Pallenberg was a woman ahead of her time.

Alexis Bloom, Filmmaker

Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Alexis now lives in New York. In her early career, she produced widely for the National Geographic Channel, and for BBC World. She also produced extensively for PBS Frontline and NOVA. In 2014, Alexis won the Producers Guild of America Award for We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks, a feature documentary for Universal Pictures, also nominated for a BAFTA Award. 

In 2017, she was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for Nonfiction Programming, and an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking (Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, for HBO.) Alexis directed Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2019. Alexis’ films have shown in film festivals around the world: the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride, Toronto, and the New York Film Festival to name a few.

Svetlana Zill, Filmmaker

Svetlana is a filmmaker born and raised in New York City. She has worked as a producer for some of the most renowned documentarians of our time including Alex Gibney, Errol Morris, and Morgan Spurlock. She began her career as an archival researcher on Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Mike Mills’ Beginners, and worked as a consulting producer for the Academy Award nominated Cutie and the Boxer, which also won an Emmy. Her work explores an impressive range of subjects that include vast CIA conspiracies, eccentric sports fans, pop culture icons and fine artists, and has been presented by HBO, Showtime, Netflix, PBS and The New York Times. Catching Fire is Svetlana’s directorial debut.

Georgie Rogers, Host

Georgie  is an established DJ, broadcaster, music journalist and voiceover artist from London.

She cut her teeth at BBC Radio 6 Music where she worked for 15 years as a key personality on its flagship breakfast and afternoon shows interviewing some of the biggest names in music.

Alongside the BBC she has several years of experience as a specialist broadcaster across alternative and electronic music as a DJ and curator on XFM, Virgin Radio, Soho Radio and contributing to Apple Music, Netflix documentaries and major TV news networks.

She also co-founded Super Women executive producing and presenting a series of short documentary films about trailblazing women across music, tech, design and motorcycling.

On the decks Georgie is an intuitive and versatile DJ. Her credits include spinning tunes for a host of major brands at venues far and wide from the V & A Museum to Glastonbury's Shangri La, on top of a mountain in Bulgaria to the middle of a lake at Secret Garden Party and from the disco ship at End of the Road.

How will the online event work?

This event will be live streamed via Zoom.us. Viewing details will be sent via your confirmation.

Attending participants will not be visible to others and will be muted throughout the session. After the talk, there will be an opportunity for audience members to ask their questions to the panel by using the Q&A feature.

This event is for existing WFTV members only.

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