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So I went out to New York where he was doing something with Al Sharpton, and then I traveled down to D.C. He’s pretty interesting,” and I said to the producers, “If the access is real, let’s kick the tires and consider a development shoot.”

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I’m full up to my ears in politics.” But they told me to check out Pete’s town hall on CNN, and I watched and said, “Okay, he’s got something going on.

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I’m editing this other movie and I don’t know what’s going to happen with it. So when they called me, I said “No, I’m busy with Boys State. I think the stakes were low enough at that point that he could really contemplate it. To their surprise, Pete was open to the idea. And Pete, I was aware of because his wedding had been written up in The New York Times-he was clearly an ascending star in the party, but I wasn’t fully checked in on him as a candidate until one of my producers called and said they had reach out to Pete through a mutual friend and asked if he’d be interested in a documentary about his candidacy, which I’m not even sure Pete was taking seriously at that point. But like most people, I was paying attention to the 2020 field, which seemed pretty unpredictable. Until Boys State, I didn’t even make political documentaries. I used to be in Democratic politics way back in my early 20s but left that behind. He had done one CNN town hall, so what happened was, the producers, who are old friends, reached out and said “You might be interested in Pete.” The field was taking shape, and he had not yet announced his candidacy, but he had formed an exploratory committee, so there was a little bit of conversation. His office was like a private detective’s office. At the point that we started, he had a campaign staff of about five, if that. Yeah, it would have been hard to get in earlier. How did you land on him and begin those discussions with his team? It seems like you got in pretty early on in the Buttigieg campaign, and there were quite a few candidates to choose from at the time. Check out the engaging film, and please enjoy this conversation with Jesse Moss. I’d expected the film to be a fairly lightweight behind-the-scenes look at the relatively short-lived presidential campaign, but Mayor Pete turned out to be something far more substantial than Buttigieg’s mild-mannered, even-tempered persona might have you believe. I had a chance recently to sit down with director Moss to discuss how he was connected with the Buttigieg campaign early on and the steps he took to get beyond the man in the campaign image.

Buttigieg’s obstacles were many (including an officer-involved shooting back in South Bend, which turned into a public relations crisis in the midst of the campaign). From the earliest days on the campaign trail to his unlikely, triumphant victory in Iowa and beyond, the film reveals the strategizing and suspense of pursuing the highest office in the land-and the myriad ways that pursuit changes the lives of those at its center, including Buttigieg’s husband Chasten and his diverse campaign team.

In the tradition of campaign trail films like The War Room and Knock Down the House, Mayor Pete takes audiences inside the brief but trailblazing presidential campaign of South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, who, if elected, would have been the youngest and first openly LGBTQ U.S. Now streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Mayor Pete is director Jesse Moss’s follow-up to his exceptional, award-winning documentary Boys State.

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