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Michael Slate
Robert M. Young, the highly acclaimed independent filmmaker, talks about his more than 6 decades making films that matter - both documentaries and fictional narrative feature films. Young has called his work "dramas of the commonplace" and he found the beauty and power in the stories of everyday people. Young's body of work is immense and he continues to work to this day, laying bare the evil done in the world and the beauty and power of the everyday people who live in it.
Young made scores of documentaries, including being among the first to make documentaries for NBC until he turned in a film that NBC and the CIA found to dangerous to air and so fired him and destroyed the film. His feature films include "Nothing But a Man" which Malcolm X called his favorite film, "Alambrista!" (the story of the American nightmare faced by undocumented immigrants), "Extremities", "The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez", "Short Eyes", "Caught", "Walk Out" and more.
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