In 1980 New York, three young men meet each other and learn that they are triplets who were separated at birth and adopted by separate families. Director Tim Wardle’s documentary, Three Identical Strangers, tells the astonishing true story of David Kellman, Robert Shafran, and Eddy Galland, who come together by chance at the age of 19 and make the startling discovery. The reunion catapults them to fame but ultimately unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret about why they were pulled apart and never told about one another.
Following the DGA Special Projects Documentary Series screening in Los Angeles on September 25, Wardle sat down with DGA Special Projects Documentary Series Subcommittee Chair Chuck Workman (Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles) to discuss the making of Three Identical Strangers, which premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and won a Special Jury Prize for Storytelling.
In addition to Three Identical Strangers, Wardle’s other credits include the documentary feature Lifers: Channel 4 Cutting Edge; the television documentary One Killer Punch; and the episode “In Search of Mr. Average” of the television documentary series First Cut.