Kurt Kuenne joins BYOD to talk about Dear Zachary and shows clips of it to highlight the process of turning a letter to his lost friend’s son into a feature documentary that was a call to action.
THE BOWLER
Meet Rocky Salemmo. He’s a ramblin’ gamblin’ man. For the majority of his adult life Rocky has hustled bowling for a living. A short documentary about booze, broads and bowling. Film by Sean Dunne.
The Career of Comedian Jonathan Winters
Jim Lehrer talks to comedian Jonathan Winters, the 1999 winner of the Mark Twain Prize from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This interview originally aired Oct. 21, 1999. Winters died April 11, 2013, at age 87. (Source: PBS…
‘THE REAL ROCKY’: A Revealing Doc that Makes Blood Squirt on Your Screen
By Gregory Crofton “THE REAL ROCKY,” a film about Chuck Wepner, a boxer from New Jersey, starts with boxing reporters sitting around and talking about fighters and fights. Exactly the kind of thing I’m not interested in. Despite the beginning,…
Jean-Michel Basquiat Painting in Downtown NYC
Jean-Michel Basquiat (December 22, 1960 — August 12, 1988), was an American artist. He began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s and evolved into a Neo-expressionist painter during the 1980s. This extract is part…