Randy Barbato
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Randy Barbato

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Writer, director, and producer Randy Barbato has a soft spot for making films about public figures ostracized or misunderstood by the media and, by extension, society at large. Along with his life and creative partner, Fenton Bailey, Barbato has created some of the more groundbreaking and sometimes controversial documentaries and made-for-TV specials. A native of New Jersey, Barbato attended graduate film school at New York University, where he met Fenton Bailey, originally from Great Britain. Both dropped out after a year to form a pop band, The Pop Tarts. In 1990, the duo created their own company, World of Wonder Productions, with the intention of recording Pop Tarts music, but only after established companies rejected them.

Known for

Party Monster
Inside Deep Throat
Stop! That! Train!
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Party Monster: The Shockumentary
Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes
Every Brilliant Thing
Becoming Chaz
In Vogue: The Editor's Eye
Stop! That! Train!
Yes I Am: The Ric Weiland Story
Going to Pot: The High and Low of It
Freedia Got a Gun
Wojnarowicz: Fuck You Faggot Fucker
Stonewall Outloud
Liberty: Mother of Exiles
30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing
When the Beat Drops
Menendez: Blood Brothers
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Out of Iraq: A Love Story
Every Brilliant Thing
I Am Britney Jean
In Vogue: The Editor's Eye
Becoming Chaz
The Strange History of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
When I Knew
Heidi Fleiss: The Would-be Madam of Crystal
Inside Deep Throat
The Hidden Führer: Debating the Enigma of Hitler's Sexuality
Party Monster
Monica in Black and White
Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
101 Rent Boys
Party Monster: The Shockumentary
The Real Ellen Story
Drop Dead Gorgeous (A Tragicomedy): The Power of HIV Positive Thinking
Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder
RuPaul's Christmas Ball
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