The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games

The World Is Watching: Making the Hunger Games (2012)

Documentary

A feature length, eight part documentary that covers everything from pre-production to adapting the source novel to casting to shooting to post and marketing. This is an amazing in-depth piece and it's notable how many women were involved in this production, from several Lionsgate executives to novelist Suzanne Collins herself. Jennifer Lawrence talks about her "hypocrisy" in not wanting to do a big budget blockbuster after having devoted herself to indies (despite X-Men, which she seems to discount somewhat). There's also a nice sequence on the strength and weight training the actors went through and the stunts that are so notable in the film, as well as having to dance around the violence implicit in the story due to the planned PG-13 rating the filmmakers were aiming for.

Casts

	Suzanne Collins as Self - Author
	Jennifer Lawrence as Self - Katniss Everdeen
	Josh Hutcherson as Self - Peeta Mellark
	Liam Hemsworth as Self - Gale Hawthorne
	Donald Sutherland as Self - President Coriolanus Snow
	Elizabeth Banks as Self - Effie Trinket
	Lenny Kravitz as Self - Cinna
	Woody Harrelson as Self - Haymitch Abernathy
	Stanley Tucci as Self - Caesar Flickerman
	Wes Bentley as Self - Seneca Crane
	Willow Shields as Self - Primrose Everdeen
	Paula Malcomson as Self - Katniss' Mother
	Amandla Stenberg as Self - Rue
	Alexander Ludwig as Self - Cato
	Dayo Okeniyi as Self - Thresh
	Leven Rambin as Self - Glimmer
	Jack Quaid as Self - Marvel
	Isabelle Fuhrman as Self - Clove
	Jacqueline Emerson as Self - Fox Face
	Sandino Moya-Smith as Self - Propaganda Film Tribute
	Renae Moneymaker as Self - Stunt Double
	Gary Ross as Self - Screenwriter
	Billy Ray as Self - Screenwriter
	Chad Stahelski as Self - Second Unit Director
	Allison Shearmur as Self - Executive Producer
	Robin Bissell as Self - Executive Producer
	Nina Jacobson as Self - Producer
	Jon Kilik as Self - Producer
	Diana Alvarez as Self - Co-Producer
	Bryan Unkeless as Self - Co-Producer
	Debra Zane as Self - Casting Director
	Philip Messina as Self - Production Designer
	Larry Dias as Self - Set Decorator
	Judianna Makovsky as Self - Costume Designer
	Ve Neill as Self - Makeup Department Head
	Linda Flowers as Self - Hair Department Head
	Sheena Duggal as Self - Visual Effects Supervisor
	Scott Farrar as Self - Visual Effects
	James Newton Howard as Self - Original Music Composer (archive footage)
	Lon Bender as Self - Sound Designer
	Stephen Mirrione as Self - Editor
	David Levithan as Self - Author, Nick & Noah's Infinite Playlist
	Drew McWeeny as Self - Film Critic

Crew