Macon native wins Emmy for documentary 10/6/2001 (Charlton McMillan, editor, Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen)

​Macon native wins Emmy for documentary
 
From staff reports
 
 
A Macon native was among the Emmy Award Winners announced before Sunday night’s Emmy broadcast.
 
Charlton McMillan received five nomination for his work (sic Correction: The film received 5 nominations and Charlton received one) on the documentary “Living Dolls: The Making of a Child Beauty Queen.”  He won an Emmy for outstanding picture editing for nonfiction programming for “Living Dolls,” which was made in association with HBO Original Programming (sic Note: It was made for HBO Documentary Films).
 
McMillan grew up on Rogers Avenue and attended Stratford Academy, said his mother (sic Note: his aunt), May F. McMillan. He attended Vanderbilt University and transferred to the University of Texas, where he earned a film degree.
 
McMillan has been a film editor for 20 years.  His projects have spanned a range of nonfiction topics and styles, from the popular reality program “Rescue 911” to long-form documentaries.
 
McMillan’s first feature-length film, “Living Dolls,” represents his most ambitious project to date.  He spent almost a year in the cutting room, shifting through 130 hours of material to create the 79-minute odyssey of 5-year-old Swan Brooner’s rise on the beauty-pageant circuit.
 
McMillan lives in Los Angeles, where he recently launched his own production company, Sceneworks, with his wife, producer/director Shari Cookson, with whom he has collaborated on several films.
 
 

The Macon Telegram
October 6, 2001
Page 16
 
 
Transcribed By: S Cookson