Nick Broomfield Recalls the Power of Pat Kingsley
Uber-publicist played key role in celebrated 1998 Sundance Film Festival kibosh .
Among the feature documentaries to premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was Brett Morgen‘s Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Not so fortunate at the same event in 1998 was Nick Broomfield’s similar film Kurt & Courtney.
As Broomfield explained during a Friday interview with HuffPost Live’s Ricky Camilleri, his presence on the festival jury that year was no match for another duo – Pat and Courtney:
“It was great meeting Kurt’s friends and stuff [while making the documentary] but I remember MTV [was] involved and they stopped being involved because Courtney persuaded them to pull the funding.
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