Dr. Larry Nassar (NBC News)
Larry Nassar (NBC News)
An HBO documentary on the Larry Nassar scandal premieres at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, which starts April 24.
"At the Heart of Gold," directed and written by Erin Lee Carr, will focus on Nassar, who sexually abused scores of young female athletes while serving as a doctor for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University, reports Julie Hinds of the Detroit Free Press.
It also chronicles the survivors whose courage led to criminal charges against him in 2016.
HBO writes this about the film:
At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal, a new documentary about the sexual abuse scandal that shook the sports world in 2017, will premiere on HBO in 2019. Based on years of research by producers David Ulich and Dr. Steven Ungerleider, and directed by Erin Lee Carr ("Mommy Dead." "Dearest" and "Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop"), the film depicts a landscape in which women spend their youth seeking victory on a world stage, juxtaposed against a culture where abuse prevails and lives are damaged forever.
Featuring exclusive interviews with survivors, At the Heart of Gold looks at the shocking stories of the gymnasts who made courageous efforts to reveal a dangerous system that prioritized winning over everything. It examines how abusers such as Dr. Larry Nassar, the osteopathic physician for the U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team, could go unchecked for so many years.
Producers David Ulich and Dr. Steven Ungerleider ("Munich 72" and "Beyond, Extremis") have been involved in the Olympic Movement for 40 years. Dr. Ungerleider’s best-selling book, Faust’s Gold, about the East German doping machine, has made him a leading authority on issues confronting the sports world.
