The person sitting on a bed and being interviewed for a documentary is clearly in distress, tears welling. Someone offers water, but no break is given to Colaio. Later, outside in a park after filming a scene with Brian Cosgrove, whose father also died in the Twin Towers, Colaio has a panic attack.
The camera keeps rolling, catching his body slumped on a sidewalk with Bordo, lips pursed, holding his prone head on her lap. Colaio was filmed on an emergency room gurney, blinking eyes darting back and forth as a nurse examined him.
In a phone interview more than six years later, Colaio says he hates seeing himself that way, so vulnerable and hurt, and that he did not know he was being filmed by Bordo in the hospital until he saw a cut of the documentary.
It would, the marketing promised, be produced by Bordo and co-directed by Colaio. For clarity, it is useful to know that from childhood through most of the filming, Colaio used female pronouns, and that his last name is legally Colaio-Coppola, but he goes by Colaio.
Since , Colaio has publicly identified as male. This article refers to Colaio as he and him, other than when quoting a source. Seven years after it was announced, no film has been released. Besides being a tragically untold tale about the worst terrorist attack on U. As documentaries have grown from a cottage industry of mostly low-budget curios to being a core entertainment product with hits like Quiet on Set, Where Is Wendy Williams? What makes We Go Higher an especially illustrative case is the audit.
