At Fiction Factory, new documentaries on two classic Hollywood films just finished production: ILLUSION OF FREEDOM has veteran cinematographer Richard H. Kline (ASC) reminiscing about the making of John Frankenheimer’s BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (1962) starring Burt Lancaster, on which Kline was the camera operator for director of photography Burnett Guffey.

In MEANS OF SURVIVAL, veteran screenwriter Christopher Knopf talks about writing in Hollywood in the fifties, sixties and seventies, with special emphasis on being inspired by story elements from Jack London’s »The Road« for his screenplay EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (1973), directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine.

These two documentaries will first be published on the French blu-ray editions of BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ and EMPEROR OF THE NORTH, due out in early 2016.