Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation

Client: The Nation Company, L.P.

Project: Feature-length Documentary

An intimate look inside America's oldest weekly magazine

Directed by Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple and produced by Suzanne Mitchell Centered through Editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, as well as an impressive array of passionate writers, the film is a journey into the soul of American Journalism. With unfettered access and unfiltered honesty, Hot Type captures the day-to-day pressures and challenges of publishing a weekly magazine and illuminates how the past continuously ripples through and shapes current events. It is the story of The Nation - and the nation - evolving into the future as it is guided by its remarkable past. In this excerpt, you will see segments shot in Haiti and the drought-ridden West extracts from this feature film.