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Dan Lindsay is a documentary filmmaker. He is the co-director, producer and an editor of the 2011 sports documentary Undefeated , which received the 2011 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. [1]

Lindsay and T. J. Martin co-directed LA 92 for National Geographic Channel in early 2017. In June 2017, Lindsay was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. [2]

In 2021, Lindsay and T. J. Martin co-directed a documentary film about the life of singer Tina Turner, titled Tina , for HBO. [3] The same year, he signed a first look deal with Imagine Documentaries. [4]

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  2. "Nominees/Winners". Academy of Television Arts & Sciences . Retrieved July 13, 2017.
  3. White, Peter (February 10, 2021). "HBO's Tina Turner Feature Doc To Debut This Spring; Universal Pictures Content Group Takes World Rights". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved February 14, 2021.
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