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DEFENDER — Jeff Adachi Interview

April 14, 2017 By Leave a Comment

DEFENDER — Jeff Adachi Interview

Jeff Adachi has devoted his professional life to public service, serving as a public defender for 32 years, the last 15 of which in the top elected spot in the public defender’s office. Somehow he has also managed to carve out a sideline as a filmmaker, making documentaries that examine racial issues in our culture… Read More »

Tagged With: BART police, Black Lives Matter, criminal justice system, immigration court, implicit bias, Japanese internment, Public defender, racism, San Francisco, scapegoat, travel ban

SOUTHWEST OF SALEM — The San Antonio Four and filmmakers Deborah S. Esquenazi and Sam Tabet

June 22, 2016 By Leave a Comment

SOUTHWEST OF SALEM — The San Antonio Four and filmmakers Deborah S. Esquenazi and Sam Tabet

I spoke to the San Antonio Four, Elizabeth Ramirez, Cassandra Rivera, Kristie Mayhugh, and Anna Vasquez,on June 20, 2016, it was the afternoon before their film, SOUTHWEST OF SALEM screened at the 40th Annual Frameline Festival.  When they and director Deborah S. Esquenazi and producer Sam Tabet appeared on stage after that screening, it was to a five-minute… Read More »

Tagged With: child rape, criminal justice system, Debbie Nathan, documentary, exoneration, incarceration, junk science, jury trial, Latina, lesbian, LGBT, Miscarriage of justice, predator dorm, recanted testimony, ritual child abuse, San Antonio Four, Satanism, sex crime

3 1/2 MINUTES, 10 BULLETS — Marc Silver Interview

February 2, 2016 By Leave a Comment

3 1/2 MINUTES, 10 BULLETS — Marc Silver Interview

One of Marc Silver’s primary reasons for making 3 1/2 MINUTES, 10 BULLETS, was to humanize a statistic. In this case, a young black man, Jordan Davis, killed in an altercation over loud music. The case became notorious because of that reason, providing a catchy hook to media coverage, not because of the tragic loss of… Read More »

Tagged With: criminal justice system, Donald Rumsfeld, Ferguson, Florida, George Zimmerman, gun control, gun laws, Jacksonville, Jordan Davis, known unknowns, loud music murder, Marc Silver, media, Michael Dunn, racial profiling, Shooting, stand your ground, thug music, trayvon martin, trial footage, unknown unknowns

Herzog, Werner — INTO THE ABYSS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Herzog, Werner — INTO THE ABYSS

Ordinarily I edit out the the sound of a phone ringing during an interview, but there was something about the way Werner Herzog responded to it when it happened during our talk on November 5, 2011, that it seemed wrong not to include it.  The film we were discussing was his documentary, INTO THE ABYSS,… Read More »

Tagged With: CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, cinema, criminal justice system, death penalty, death row, documentary, executions, murder, murderer, Texas, Werner Herzog

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