Cinematographer Nadia Hallgren opens up about directing her first feature Becoming, a Netflix documentary about Michelle Obama, two years in the making: 'I can't believe we did it'
For nearly two years, Nadia Hallgren has been keeping the biggest moment of her career a secret from even her closest friends. The Bronx-born cinematographer just directed her first feature,, a documentary about Michelle Obama which Netflix announced just a week before premiering the film on its service May 6.
I can't believe we did it. I would have these nightmares that some article would come out. Even my closest friends didn't know what I was doing. I finally just started telling people, "It's a secret project. I really can't talk about it. Don't press me." But I had one friend who would be like, "Every time I text you and you tell me you're somewhere, it's the same place Michelle Obama is." I was like, "That's a coincidence.
I get a phone call from [Higher Ground executive] Priya Swaminathan and she says, "Mrs. Obama is getting ready to go on her book tour and we're floating the idea of documenting it. It may be a film or it may just be footage that ends up living in Mrs. Obama's archives." I had worked with a friend of Priya's on a series before. The idea was that having someone with her who could have a small footprint in the field was really important.
Mrs. Obama is signing books and Malia happens to walk into the shot and this amazing scene plays out that was completely unexpected. I had a sound person with me that time, and he was on this long boom, and thank God he was there, because I was far away, in order to frame the shot to get them both in it, since Malia was standing and Mrs. Obama was sitting and Malia's also quite tall.At the end of that scene where the President joins her on her arena tour, we get this lovely moment.
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