It was during the production of their 2018 Oscar nominated documentary “RBG” that directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West fully learned about the incredible life and career of Pauli Murray. An influence on Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Thurgood Marshall and countless others, Murray was a lawyer, legal scholar, civil rights activist, Episcopal priest, poet and (perhaps unknowingly at the time) an icon for LGBT rights, especially transgender rights.
Private and humble, Murray died in 1985 at age 74 and was largely forgotten. But the new documentary “My Name Is Pauli Murray” is meant to remedy that.
Cohen and West were joined by producer Talleah Bridges McMahon and editor Cinque Northern for an engaging conversation about the film, moderated by TheWrap’s Alonso Duralde.