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Nadia Hallgren is the director of Becoming, the Netflix documentary on Michelle Obama, one of the top five most-watched nonfiction films of all time.

Born in the Bronx to an on-and-off postman father and a domestic worker mother, without ever attending film school, she earned her stripes over 15 years behind the camera: production assistant on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, then cinematographer at the post–civil war tribunals in Sierra Leone, inside the busiest maternity ward in the world in the Philippines, and alongside attorney Ben Crump in the homes of American families bereaved by police violence.

Today a Netflix-signed director on Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE and the Victoria Beckham series, she comes to tell us how she landed the role of a lifetime opposite Michelle Obama, what she learned with a front-row seat to the best and worst of humanity, and why, in her view, real success is only ever built on the long game.

Timeline

04:00: From the Bronx to filmmaking | Modest childhood, library kid, photography as the first spark

12:00: 15 years as a cinematographer | Sierra Leone, the Philippines, North Korea — a front-row seat to humanity

19:00: The phone call that changed everything | Why her low-budget skill set, not film school, won her Michelle Obama

28:00: Meeting Michelle | "Be yourself," the hug, the conversation about their mothers

33:00: Building Becoming | The Chopped method — make the best meal with the basket you're given

45:00: The Netflix model | Flat fee, no back-end, but every door opens after

48:00: Directing as coaching | 35 people, no framework, never take the low-hanging fruit

53:00: Victoria Beckham | Refusing the Spice Girl angle to film a 50-year-old woman in full reinvention

1:08:00: Career as a long game | Real estate at 25, success at 40, why artists need a lawyer before an agent

1:17:00: Meditation, AI and the future | What machines will eat, what they never will

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