Robert Port: Oscar®-winning Director, on Twin Towers: Legacy, 9/11, and the Weight of Memory
In this powerful episode of AW Confidential, AW sits down with Oscar®-winning director Robert Port to discuss his latest film, Twin Towers: Legacy.
A follow-up to Port and Bill Guttentag’s 2003 Oscar®-winning short documentary Twin Towers, the film revisits the story of NYPD Detective Joe Vigiano, a first responder in the elite Emergency Services Unit who gave his life on September 11, 2001. At the time of his tragic death, Joe left behind a widow, Kathy, and three young children.
Twin Towers: Legacy follows those children—now grown men—and their extraordinary call to service. Two became NYPD…
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