Andrew Napier Interview – Mad As Hell Premiere

At the NYC premiere of the Mad As Hell Film, Director Andrew Napier answers questions about his career, the creative process of documentary filmmaking and what it's like to work with Cenk Uygur, the charismatic founder and host of The Young Turks. Buy MAD AS HELL on iTunesAlso on other digital platforms, DVD, & Bluray at

Questions asked:

1. How did you get started in filmmaking?

2. How did you start making Mad As Hell?

3. What was the biggest challenge?

4. Why are documentaries like this important?

5. Will there be a sequel to Mad As Hell?

6. Why did you want to be a filmmaker?

7. What made you want to start with documentaries?

8. Where can we see your Terminator 3 film?

ABOUT ANDREW NAPIER

Andrew Napier was born and raised in Wisconsin and attended the University of Wisconsin - Madison. In 2009, after working on Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” in Berlin, Germany, he moved to Los Angeles. Andrew was a producer of the 2013 Academy Award®- winning short film “Curfew,” and later edited its feature adaptation “Before I Disappear” (SXSW 2014 Audience Award Winner). His screenplay for “Dogtooth,” a remake of the Academy Award®-nominated Greek foreign film, is currently in development at Mandalay Pictures. Andrew directed the feature documentary “Mad As Hell” (Hot Docs 2014 Conscious Media Award Winner), which follows Cenk Uygur, who’s online news show “The Young Turks” has amassed over two billion views on YouTube. He also directed the narrative short “Grandma’s Not A Toaster” (Tribeca 2013) and the feature documentary “Mary and Bill” (Wisconsin Film Festival 2011 Best Documentary). Andrew produced and edited the documentaries “The Past is a Grotesque Animal” (2014), about the band “of Montreal,” released by Oscilloscope Laboratories, and “Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play.” Andrew co-produced the romantic comedy “Lust For Love” (2014), starring Fran Kranz and Dichen Lachman. He served as an executive producer for the documentary “The Culture High,” and the dark comedies “The Lord of Catan” starring Amy Acker, and “Limbo” starring H. Jon Benjamin.

ABOUT MAD AS HELL

The Young Turks, one of the most popular online news shows in the world, has amassed a YouTube network of millions of subscribers and billions of views. But that wasn’t always the case.

Mad As Hell documents the tumultuous, at times hilarious and altogether astonishing trajectory of Cenk Uygur, The Young Turks’ main host and founder, as he traverses from unknown Public Access TV host to internet sensation by way of YouTube. When he ventures into national television by landing the 6 PM timeslot on MSNBC, Cenk’s uncensored brand of journalism is compromised as he becomes a thorn in the side of traditional news media; his unwavering dedication to speaking the truth puts him at the very nexus of the battle between new and old media. The film is directed by Andrew Napier.

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