110. Filmmaker Dan Mirvish on ‘18 ½’ and the Legacy of Watergate

Dan Mirvish is an award winning filmmaker and co-founder of the
Slamdance Film Festival. His films include Omaha The Movie, Open
House, Between Us, and Bernard and Huey. His new film is 18 ½, a
Watergate thriller and dark comedy starring Willa Fitzgerald and
John Magaro as a transcriptionist and reporter who find the
infamous gap of tape in Richard Nixon’s White House recordings.
Today Mirvish talks with Tom Knoblauch about the film’s thematic
relevance to today, how his filmic influences, including mentor
Robert Altman, played into its conception, and what the efficacy
of political art is in today’s climate.