Lawrence Bender, producer of Quentin Tarantino classics like “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs,” and now Al Gore’s documentary “Inconvenient Truth,” revealed he’s got more doc projects in the works.
“‘Inconvenient Truth’ led to a bunch of phone calls,” Bender said during a panel discussion at the Nashville Film Festival this week. “There were some very interesting ideas. Some will hopefully get made this year.”
Bender politely declined to specify for The Documentary Channel what projects he’s got in the pipeline. I bet some of the documentaries are related to the environment or at least one has to do with global warming. Every one who attended the panel discussion Friday got an energy star compliant light bulb, more energy efficient and better for the environment than the average bulb.
Bender said he is, of course, still devoted to making feature films, but that these days his head is split about 50-50 between Hollywood and his social conscience.
So, as one festival attendee asked him, is his career heading in a documentary direction? Bender replied: “The answer is yes.”