Polley, who last directed the acclaimed documentary Stories We Tell, will write and produce the six-hour miniseries, with Harron on board as director.
Sarah Polley (the actress and director of the documentary "Stories We Tell") is the executive producer of "A Better Man"; the cinematographer is Iris Ng Khann co-directed the film, along with Lawrence Jackman.
More than that, though, his profiles often have the apparatus of personal quests, and offer little insights into the sometimes lonely work of getting documentary stories on a printed page.
In her quietly moving, intelligent documentary "Stories We Tell," the Canadian actress and director Sarah Polley sat down with relatives and friends and asked them to talk about her mother, Diane Polley, who died in 1990 when Ms. Polley was 11.
Her 2011 feature film, Take This Waltz, which she wrote and directed, was named one of Canada's Top Ten features of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as was her next film, the highly personal documentary Stories We Tell (2012), which explored the nuances of her family's history.
Away From Her remains her most celebrated work, exploring the fallout from an Alzheimer's sufferer, but she also won plaudits for her raw documentary Stories We Tell, in which she explores her family's history – it included the revelation that Polley herself was the result of an extramarital affair.
Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard.
"Ideally, it would be a documentary story we'd do at one location, with one set of characters".
Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard," Koenig told the Guardian.
The film achieves the best of what you can hope for from documentary story-telling: it makes you feel as if you are reliving the case with the team.
Mark Whitaker, CNN's managing editor, praised Spurlock for "creative and thought-provoking documentary story-telling" in a statement released on Thursday.
