Documentary filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky passed away early in the morning on Saturday, February 21. Sinofsky had long suffered from diabetes, and it’s suspected that it played a role in his death. He would have been 59 years old next month.
Sinofsky, along with his filmmaking partner Joe Berlinger, gained fame for co-directing the seminal documentary Paradise Lost, about the infamous West Memphis Three. When the case gained traction with the press and started getting the attention of celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder, Sinofsky and Berlinger returned to the case with Paradise Lost: Purgatory and Paradise Lost: Revelations, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award in 2011. (If you haven’t seen them, all Paradise Lost films are on HBO Go, and they are as brilliant and engrossing as everyone says they are.) Sinofsky and Berlinger also directed the Metallica documentary Some Kind of Monster, also essential viewing.
Basically, Bruce Sinofsky spent the last twenty years co-teaching a master class in documentary filmmaking. You should find the work he did with Joe Berlinger and get ready to lose a lot of hours.
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