If you would like to download Greensboro’s Child and watch it on your ipod just click on the ipod image on the sidebar and it is ipod ready. Or watch it on your desktop. If you would like to make a donation to the filmmaker (since he funded the entire documentary himself) please feel free to click on the image on the sidebar. No donation is too little or too much.
Thank you everyone for your support and encouragement. Stay tuned for the next project. If you would like to subscribe to my podcast to keep informed on what’s next, go here. Or check out my blog to see what I’m doing.
OK… I’ve had a lot of time to think about what the next steps should be with this documentary. I’ve gotten incredible feedback from the viewers at the screenings in Greensboro.
Should I submit it to more film festivals?
What about distribution?
How about making copies available for schools?
All of those were great suggestions that I would be happy to oblidge. Thanks to the smart people at revver.com I’m now making my documentary available on-line for anyone to watch. Just click over to the Theater section and I will be putting up the documentary in seqments. There will be 8 segments. I will set up one each week on a rotation.
I have a job for you… Let television networks, film festivals and distributors know about it. Email them and keep commenting, love the feedback.
The Commission finds that on the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, members of the Klan/Nazi caravan headed for Greensboro with malicious intent. At a minimum, they planned to disrupt the parade and assault the demonstrators (by throwing eggs), violating the marchers constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. Further, we believe there is sufficient evidence to conclude that they intended to provoke a violent confrontation and that this was broadly understood among those present in the multiple planning discussions. Those who left their cars to engage in violence did so willingly. More importantly, Klan and Nazi members have admitted since the event that they intentionally came prepared to use deadly force in order to be victorious in any violence that occurred.
I’m posting this from the screening of Greensboro’s Child. The Q&A after the 7pm screening was very intense. Not in a bad way either. Each person in the audience had a unique perspective and questions that furthered the conversation.
Come on down tomorrow night, 7pm, The Scene on South Elm, and check it out for yourself.
Q&A video to come soon…
UPDATE: Here’s some video from the Q&A following the 5/25 screening:
A preview of the first couple of minutes of Greensboro’s Child.
It’s hard to believe that I started this documentary back in ‘97. I was an amateur, in college, holding a mic and pointing a camera at an interviewee, with a light kit set up in no particular order and no clue as to the importance of white balancing.
Well, you live and learn. And have I ever learned some valuable lessons working on this documentary.
Today is the first public screening in Greensboro since it won, “Best Independent Documentary” at the North Carolina Film and Video Festival in 2002. The current version now has a soundtrack and is 15 minutes shorter than the award-winning version.
I have many people to thank for making this opportunity a reality:
My brother, Sean Coon — for his amazing blogging skills and great mind for creating avenues that I can take advantage of…
John Ford — Thanks so much for taking Sean’s design and making this blog functional. We couldn’t have done it without your help.
Jonathan Daniel - Another brilliant web guru giving some of his genius to help make this site a reality.
If you would like to download Greensboro’s Child and watch it on your ipod just click on the ipod image on the sidebar and it is ipod ready. Or watch it on your desktop. If you would like to make a donation to the filmmaker (since he funded the entire documentary himself) please feel free to click on the image on the sidebar. No donation is too little or too much.
