When the filmmakers screened it for a major studio in hopes of getting distribution, some of the executives fell asleep.
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It was a movie about a slide show, after all. Weyermann was a longtime executive, and hardly anyone in Hollywood thought it was a good idea. The film, which became one of the highest-earning documentaries ever made, was the second documentary made by the activist film company Participant, where Ms. Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize that same year, sharing it with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “An Inconvenient Truth” earned an Oscar in 2007, and Mr. “It is not an exaggeration to say she really did change the world.” “Diane was one of the most remarkable human beings I have ever known,” said Al Gore, the former vice president and presidential candidate whose seemingly quixotic mission to educate the world about climate change through a decades-long traveling slide show became an unlikely hit film with an odd title, “An Inconvenient Truth.” “She was enormously skilled at her craft and filled with empathy,” he added, in a phone interview. Her sister Andrea Weyermann said the cause was lung cancer. Diane Weyermann, who oversaw the making of potent documentaries like “An Inconvenient Truth,” “Citizenfour” and “Food Inc.,” and in so doing helped change the documentary world from an earnest and underfunded backwater of the movie industry into a vibrant must-see category, died on Oct.