Filmmakers Barbara Leibovitz and Jaime Hellman are doing a high-wire act for Discovery Channel with plans for a documentary special about tightrope walkers. The deal for the project, dubbed Extreme Aerialists: The World's Great Tightrope Walkers, comes on the heels of the July 23 premiere of Leibovitz and Hellman's well-received docu for PBS and National Geographic titled The FBI, which offered an in-depth look at the daily lives of FBI agents. "Aerial tightrope walking is a culture of its own," Hellman said. "As filmmakers we have found the community of circus and carnival performance fascinating."...
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