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A conversation with filmmaker Kurt Kuenne

A conversation with filmmaker Kurt Kuenne

From the course: Filmmaking Forum: Scene Analysis

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A conversation with filmmaker Kurt Kuenne

- Kurt thank you so much for sharing that clip with us from this amazing movie. I was wondering if you would just give us some background on this project for those of our audience that might not be familiar with it. - Dear Zachary itself is a documentary that originally did not start life as a public release documentary. It was just going to be a memory album about my friend Andrew after he died, that I just started making because I wanted to. It was like my grieving process I guess, and when the criminal case against his killer went off the rails I realized it was my responsibility to turn it into something for public release that could argue for change to bail laws, to prevent a second occurrence of what had happened before. So, yeah, so it evolved from a private project to a public project over time. So, that's kind of what the origin was. - [Interviewer] It definitely has a very interesting style, and before I put my own words on the style, can you talk about what you've done…

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