{"id":69177,"date":"2026-03-06T18:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/?p=69177"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T00:52:42","slug":"sadoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/sadoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Charlie Sadoff, Gabriel London and Danielle Dupree"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>TV Interview!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69180\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sadofflondondupreebanner.png\" alt=\"director\/producers Charlie Sadoff, Gabriel London and debate coach Danielle Dupree of film &quot;Immutable&quot; (photos from official site)\" width=\"384\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sadofflondondupreebanner.png 634w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/sadofflondondupreebanner-300x141.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Interview with director\/producers Charlie Sadoff, Gabriel London and debate coach Danielle Dupree\u00a0on PBS by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/13\/biosuzanne\/\">Suzanne<\/a> 3\/5\/26<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is such an interesting documentary about Washington DC teens learning about debating and how it changes their lives. It&#8217;s very informative, uplifting and heart-tugging. I enjoyed speaking with the two men who made the film, as well as one of the woman that appears in it.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Interview with Charlie Sadoff, Gabriel London &amp; Danielle Dupree for &quot;Immutable&quot; on PBS 3\/5\/26\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6GRZ_annGVI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- TVMEGBODY -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1056557952271337\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8801203268\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-69179 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/immutablekeyart.jpg\" alt=\"Key art for the PBS documentary &quot;Immutable&quot;\" width=\"257\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/immutablekeyart.jpg 304w, https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/immutablekeyart-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>MORE INFO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.immutablefilm.com\/\">Official Site<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/immutable\/\">Official PBS Site<\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/9P07zA-6v54?si=1IWk1JAx2VADE066\">Trailer<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Directed by:\u00a0<strong>Charlie Sadoff\u00a0<\/strong>&amp;\u00a0<strong>Gabriel London<\/strong><br \/>\nProduced by:\u00a0<strong>Charlie Sadoff, Gabriel London,\u00a0<\/strong>&amp;\u00a0<strong>Keith M. Brown<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Immutable<\/strong>\u00a0is a feature documentary that follows a group of students from the Washington Urban Debate League as they fight to find their voices in a world that too often tries to silence them. Against the backdrop of a city marked by inequality, these young debaters confront daily challenges that range from housing instability to neurodivergence. For some, debate is a path to college. For others, it\u2019s a lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>We meet them at a summer debate camp, where their journey begins\u2014not just to win tournaments, but to sharpen arguments that reflect their own lives. One girl, autistic and fearless, demands the world see people with special needs as whole. Others argue for economic policy reforms while navigating poverty themselves. As multiple seasons unfold,\u00a0<strong>Immutable<\/strong>\u00a0captures the grit, intellect, and heart of students who are determined to not only become top-tier debaters but to change the course of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which is airing on National Speech and Debate Day as part of the PBS America @ 250 commemoration of the country\u2019s 250th anniversary, comes at a time of deep division in the United States. Debate, which emphasizes civil discourse and the ability to argue all sides of an issue, makes the film especially timely.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"HowToWatch-module-scss-module___Ud1Xa__how_to_watch__title\">How to Watch Immutable<\/h2>\n<p class=\"HowToWatch-module-scss-module___Ud1Xa__how_to_watch__text\">Immutable is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"HowToWatch-module-scss-module___Ud1Xa__how_to_watch__links\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/show\/immutable\/\">Stream Here on PBS.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pbs-app\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download the PBS App <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thirteen.org\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Check Your Local Listings for Broadcast Schedules<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Charlie Sadoff<\/strong> is a producer, director and editor whose most recent film <em>Against All Enemies<\/em> premiered to critical acclaim at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, went onto to win multiple best documentary awards and after its release in 2024 was the number one ranked doc on the Apple TV charts. His early work includes the Emmy Award winning <em>Liquid Television<\/em> and Peter Gabriel\u2019s VMA and Grammy Award winning music video <em>Steam<\/em>. Documentaries he has produced include <em>For Our Daughters<\/em>, <em>The Mind of Mark Defriest<\/em> which premiered at Hot Docs and aired on Showtime, <em>Dream Riders<\/em> (Sheffield Doc Fest, Discovery), the 10 part series <em>The Rites of Autumn<\/em> for ESPN and multiple docs for History and CBS Sports. Charlie seeks projects that can help affect meaningful change and <em>Cut Poison Burn<\/em> (Mill Valley) and <em>The Harvest<\/em> (IDFA, Epix) from executive producers Eva Longoria and Academy Award winners Shine Global both screened on Capitol Hill as part of efforts to move legislation. <em>The Definition of Insanity,<\/em> which he wrote and produced for PBS in 2020 is currently being used to help cities around the world change the way people with mental illness interact with the criminal justice system. Charlie has served as a judge for the Emmy Awards and a guest lecturer at the graduate school of journalism at Columbia University. He has won multiple Golden Trailer, Cynopsis Social Good, Promax Gold, BDA and film festival awards.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69182 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/immutablenational.png\" alt=\"Immutable key art - National Speech &amp; Debate Education Day\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gabriel London<\/strong> is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose films have tackled major policy issues of the day from mass incarceration to climate change. Gabriel won the Albert R. Broccoli best film award for his first prison documentary, Turned Out, and went on to collaborate with Human Rights Watch on the first nationwide study of prison rape. The resulting films, No Escape: Prison Rape in America, received the Soros Criminal Justice Award and were instrumental in the passage of Prison Rape Elimination Act. Gabriel has made intimate documentaries with notable talent, including Drew Barrymore&#8217;s film on voting, The Best Place to Start, and Snoop Dogg&#8217;s autobiographical story, Youth Authority: California. Gabriel&#8217;s most recognized work, The Mind of Mark DeFriest, won a number of awards at film festivals and went on to help reduce the title subject&#8217;s sentence by over 70 years, before being aired on Showtime. In 2020, Gabriel directed The Definition of Insanity, which aired on PBS and has been used as a tool for mental health reforms nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Danielle Dupree<\/strong> is a full time debate coach for Washington Urban Debate League, as well as a former debate judge and high school debater.\u00a0 An alumna of Howard University from PG County, MD, she spent 4 years at Duval High School,\u00a0 where she became a debater. Now she uses her youth and experience to relate to students and help them grow in their own relationships with debate.<\/p>\n<p>Proofread and Edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/20\/biobrenda\/\">Brenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvmeg.com\/index.php\/interviews\/\">Back to the Primetime Articles and Interviews Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV Interview! &nbsp; Interview with director\/producers Charlie Sadoff, Gabriel London and debate coach Danielle Dupree\u00a0on PBS by Suzanne 3\/5\/26 This is such an interesting documentary about Washington DC teens learning about debating and how it changes their lives. It&#8217;s very informative, uplifting and heart-tugging. I enjoyed speaking with the two men who made the film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","category-primetime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69187,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69177\/revisions\/69187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvmeg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}