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Still in North Carolina, not a lot of time to check in to the blog but I’ve seen some amazing films — The Life of Kevin Carter (of the Bang Bang Club), a documentary about people who have been freed from prison by Barry Scheck’s Project Innocence called After Innocence (nobody should be able to vote on capital punishment until they see it and while we’re on the topic fuck the entire state of Florida who officially believe it’s more important to have “finality to the system” than it is to free an innocent man — and I’m not kidding, that was their argument), Barbara Kopple’s Bearing Witness, a documentary about women war journalists (who also happened to be next door to me in the hotel and were screaming drunk until three in the morning on Friday night, but that’s another story).
My allergies are killing me but Durham is beatiful & it’s fun to hang out with MTV Melinda. Off to watch Martin Scorcese hold court and see the Air America Documentary, Left of the Dial.
More later.
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Yeah, I met the director at the film festival, his film was amazing & if anyone can see it they should, MTV Melinda is going to catch it at Tribeca.
I agree with you about The Life of Kevin Carter.
It will be at the San Francisco Int. Film Fest and Tribeca. Hopefully, it will be shown on television.
The film was a thesis project for the UC Berkeley Grad School of Journalism which is head by John Else. The aim in their digital doc program is to make tv as cheap as radio.