Edward Norton Produced Documentary 'My Own Man' Set To Debut On Netflix

Edward Norton joins the team of David Sampliner's poignant forthcoming documentary 'My Own Man' as executive producer, as it prepares to air exclusively on Netflix this Spring having premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last year.

'When I started making this film, I wanted to document an experience I shared with a lot of my peers: becoming a husband and father in a time when the roles for men were changing so dramatically', Sampliner explains. 'But in the course of shooting over seven years, I realized that discovering how to be a 21st century dad meant coming to terms with my own father.' Sampliner first ventured into documentary making with Tim Nackashi in 2004's career film 'Dirty Work' - a film which also saw the support of Edward Norton in his own first stint in a documentary.

''My Own Man' is as deeply personal as filmmaking can get', Norton says about the movie. 'You rarely see an artist document their own personal experience with such candour and simultaneously offer such deep insights into the very universal struggle to communicate within a family.'

'My Own Man' joins the likes of 'Virunga', 'E-Team' and 'The Battered B*****ds of Baseball' as an Original Documentary on Netflix - the world's biggest internet/TV network which continues to attract numerous subscribers every year and now stands at around $53 million members. 'We're proud to be working with Edward Norton and David Sampliner on this film', says Netflix Original Documentary and Comedy Vice President Lisa Nishimura. 'My Own Man is both an exploration of the new masculinity and an examination of age-old differences between fathers and sons.'

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Netflix's 'My Own Man' is set to air on March 6th 2015.