VOYEUR
Documentary Feature | 95 minutes

HIFF 2017

 World Cinema Documentary

Directed by
Myles Kane, Josh Koury

Produced by
Trisha Koury

Featuring
Gay Talese, Gerald Foos

2017 | English | USA

In 2016, legendary journalist Gay Talese published in The New Yorker an excerpt from his upcoming book The Voyeur’s Motel, which quickly proved to be one of the most controversial stories of his career. Following the writer during this period, documentarians Myles Kane and Josh Koury track Talese as he investigates the story of the Colorado motel owner, Gerald Foos, who secretly built an observation platform to watch the most intimate moments in the lives of his guests. As questions emerge about Foos’s trustworthiness, Talese is thrown into the middle of a controversy that threatens to destroy the story he’s been working on for more than three decades.