Helena Coan Explains Her Audrey Hepburn Documentary

The writer and director of Audrey - a new documentary exploring the life and work of Audrey Hepburn - discusses how her own life prompted her to craft a film about one of the greatest movie stars of all time. Helena Coan explores the craft of working with archive footage and voiceover narration to reveal Hepburn’s life story. She discusses Hepburn’s triumphs on the Broadway stage, at the Oscars and campaigning for UNICEF in war torn Somalia. Coan reveals how she grappled with telling the story of Hepburn’s personal struggles with her parents and her husbands. The filmmaker also sheds new light on Hepburn’s creative partnership with Hubert de Givenchy including how they battled to get her long black Breakfast at Tiffany's dress exactly right.

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