Taking People Where They Don't Want to Go: Joe Berlinger on 'Tony Robbins' [PODCAST]

“If you go into a situation with a preconceived idea of the story, you sometimes miss the story. Let the situation tell you where the film is going."

Emmy and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joe Berlinger has had a prolific career. He's directed 12 feature docs that cover the darker side of the human experience, like the story of a brother on trial for murdering one of his kin in Brother’s Keeper, or following the band Metallica down the turbulent road of group therapy in Metallica: Some Kind of Monster.

His new film, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru, takes a different approach. It's a celebration of the work of motivational speaker Tony Robbins through an inside look at his annual “Date With Destiny" seminar, where thousands of people flock in hopes of changing their lives.

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