# Robert Stone on his Terrific Documentary About the 1974 Patty Hearst Kidnapping and its Special Screening/Q&A July 1 in Rhinebeck, NY

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Published: 2026-06-30T11:43:51+00:00
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Robert Stone is a critically acclaimed, multi-award winning documentary filmmaker. He is an Oscar nominee for Best Feature Documentary and a three-time Emmy nominee for Outstanding Achievement in Documentary Filmmaking. Four of his films have premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, including Closing Night Film. His recent 6-hour epic history of the effort to land a man on the Moon, Chasing the Moon, won the prestigious DuPont Columbia Award and was seen by 8 million viewers in the United States alone and was broadcast in 13 foreign countries. Over the span of his 40 year career, his work has been broadcast worldwide and screened and honored at countless film festivals. Film critic Owen Gleiberman has called Stone “one of our most important documentarians” having directed “two of the most explosively insightful documentaries of the last decade.” Robert joins me to discuss his terrific 2004 documentary GUERRILLA: THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST, which has a special screening and Q&A at Upstate Films in Rhinebeck, NY on Wednesday July 1 at 7pm. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel

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