Erin Sanger and Taylor Hess

Erin Sanger is a writer and director whose work spans both narrative and documentary realms. She is a Wasserman Award Winner, Student Academy Award Nominee, and Webby Award Honoree. Her directorial work has been featured on ESPN, National Geographic, PBS, The Atlantic, Topic, and Hulu. She is currently completing her first feature-length documentary. She is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Taylor Hess is a filmmaker, journalist, and contributing editor for Filmmaker Magazine. She recently wrote and directed two episodes for a Vox Media documentary series on Netflix and directed a short documentary for The Atlantic called Guts. She’s produced at Part2 Pictures and has worked at Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), and for Scott Rudin Productions. Taylor is a graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Talks

Meeting Mack Beggs and Making Mack Wrestles

By Erin Sanger and Taylor Hess | October 9, 2019

Meeting Mack Beggs and Making Mack Wrestles

The directors of the ESPN 30 for 30 film describe the experience of crafting their intimate portrait of the trans wrestler.