Andrea Nevins, Who Made Touching Films on Quirky Topics, Dies at 63

Andrea Nevins, a documentary filmmaker who contributed sensitivity and depth to seemingly happy stories about losers and unlikely heroes, including Punk-Rock parents and Barbie dolls, died on April 12 at their home in Los Angeles. She was 63 years old.

His daughter, Clara, said the cause was breast cancer.

Mrs. Nevins received a nomination for the Academy Award in 1998 for her first independent project as a producer, the short film “Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies”, on a cabaret group composed of retirees in that city in the city of the South.

The film carries all the characteristics of its subsequent work: unconventional characters in conconental circumstances that, through their struggles, say something significant about life and how to live it.

His first long -lasting project, “The Other F Word” (2011), was based on the 2007 memories “Punk Rock Dad: No Rules, Just Real Life”, by Jim Lindberg, the main singer of the Pennywise band.

Somehow, the opposite of artists in Palm Springs, Mr. Lindberg was known for his aggressive presence on the stage and his profane lyrics, just as he sailed the daily challenges of raising three Daughters.

Working with a Lean film team, Mrs. Nevins could deepen the life of Mr. Lindberg and other punk parents, producing a moving portrait that went far beyond her premise of fishing outside the water.

“What I discovered was that many of these guys were really devastated by their own parents,” he told NPR in 2011. “And when a child was given, unless everyone hastened at the forefront, and had the day Weren Weren was a Trlaly to Trlaly

The film was acquired jointly by Showtime Networks and oscilloscope laboratories, a company founded by Adam Yauch by the Beastie Boys.

“When I listened for the first time about this movie about musicians, I thought:” Oh, no, no other movie that everyone thinks I will like it, “said Mr. Yauch in a statement at that time.” But I was really touched by her, pleasantly surprised and slippery I didn’t go with my first instinct. It is a beautiful and moving movie. “

Mrs. Nevins was also known by the HEN documentary 2018 “Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie”, a search study by the famous doll that tested source material for Greta Gerwig while she and Noah Baumbach write the script for the 2023 “Barbie” movie.

The germ of the project came from a comment from a friend who worked in Mattel, which makes Barbie: inside the company, he told Mrs. Nevins, there was a conversation at the scene of the wrist in the culture and how to adjust her image as the culture changed.

Mrs. Nevins and the team seven months persuaded Mattel to allow them to film within their offices. The documentary was filmed mainly in 2016, at a time when many people, although the United States was about to choose its first president, Hillary Clinton; It was launched in 2018, while the country dealt with #Metoo Scandals.

“I knew, whatever happens, Barbie was going to be an interesting way to see where we are now,” Nevins told The Los Angeles Times in 2018.

Andrea Blaugrund was born on March 15, 1962 in Manhattan. His father, Stanley Blaugrund, was an otolaryngologist (also known as a doctor, nose and throat); His mother, Annette (Weintraub) Blaugrund, was a curator of the museum.

After graduating from Harvard with a title in social studies in 1984, he worked as a journalist in North Carolina and Florida and then producer of the NPR program “All Things considered” in Washington.

He also worked for the ABC News documentary series “Peter Jennings Reporting” and was part of the team that an Emmy won in 1991 for a story about weapons control.

In 1996, he married David Nevins, who became president and executive director of Showtime. Together with her daughter, she survives her, like her children, Charlie and Jesse; His brothers, James and Jonathan; and his mother.

Mrs. Nevins made several other films, bringing her characteristic sensitivity to surprising characters in the moments of critical life.

Both the 2015 characteristic “Play It Forward” and “Happiness”, a 2014 episode of the Sports Series “State of Play”, analyzed the professional athletes to contemplate how to move from their sports careers.

“Hysterical”, which debuted at the SXSW 2021 Film Festival, tracked the stories of several female comics in an exploration of the role of the genre in the Standup comedy.

And his most recent film, “The Cowboy and the Queen” (2023), examined the unlikely friendship that flourished between a Texas cowboy and Queen Elizabeth II after she learned of her unconventional approach to raise horses.

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