A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (2006)

Directed by

Esther Robinson

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 15m

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A filmmaker investigates the disappearance of her uncle Danny Williams, who was an aspiring filmmaker and a former lover of Andy Warhol. The documentary pieces together his life and the events leading up to his mysterious vanishing in 1966.

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What happens

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory is a 2007 documentary film directed by Esther B. Robinson. It follows Robinson's inquiry into the truth behind the mysterious 1966 disappearance of her uncle Danny Williams, who was an aspiring filmmaker and a former lover of the artist Andy Warhol. The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Teddy Award for best LGBT documentary. It also won the New York Loves Film Award at the Tribeca Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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