Toby Oppenheimer

Birth Name:

Toby Oppenheimer

Birth Place:

Maryland, United States

Profession

Producer, Director, Camera department, Cinematographer, Assistant director

His documentary about Amish teenagers, "Devil's Playground," premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002
Quote: "I have a true aversion to recreations․ I find them to do the exact opposite of what they are intended to do - they take me out of the story as opposed to pull me in․"
Quote: "[on Marion Barry] "He's not an easy man to deal with․ He's very mercurial in his moods․ He does not look to the past; he prefers to look to the future․ And that's difficult when you're doing a documentary about somebody․""
Best known as a documentary director and producer who worked on "The Nine Lives of Marion Barry" and "The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist․"

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