ABOUT ELEANOR COPPOLA
Francis Ford Coppola 's wife who made several documentaries about her family. She was credited with directing the on-set footage for the famous documentary Heart of Darkness, released in 1991.
She met her future husband on the set of the film Dementia 13 in 1962.
She chronicled her husband's attempts to control the filming of Apocalypse Now, which later turned into one of her best-known documentaries.
Her daughter Sofia Coppola also became a respected filmmaker.
Her film Heart of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse showed a vulnerable Martin Sheen visibly shaken during Apocalypse Now's production.
