He was shooting a documentary about a pigeon serial killer in Manhattan; she was embarking to the Arctic to film Inuit polar bear hunters.
Many moons and dropped satellite phone calls and forty countries later, they discovered that they shared a knack for telling stories that were personal and sensory and real.
They decided to throw their lot in together and go wherever the road took them.
They got married and bought a house. Soon came the birth of their first son. He was healthy; they were happy. And they found that good things happened when they were a pair.
Cue the day they received a phone call about an unlikely story in Uganda about kids making music in the middle of a war zone. They had to see for themselves. So they flew there on a shoestring and made a movie about it.
War/Dance was nominated for an Oscar, won them best directors at Sundance and a slew of other awards. So that went pretty well.
And they continue to tell stories together: narrative ones, real ones, long ones, short ones. Lately they’re at work on a feature documentary for HBO, a project for MTV and a script about an Indian running prodigy. Only now there are two sons.
And yes, they really do still like each other, and yes they work together.