AIFF 2013: Filmmaker TalkBack: Close Up & Personal

The Ashland Indpendent Film Festival hosts an in-depth conversation with documentary filmmakers who disclose how their intimate encounters reveal the nuances and subtleties of the human experience. Moderated by Academy Award nominee Lucy Walker, winner of this year’s AIFF Rogue Award and the director of the new documentary The Crash Reel; the panel included Sam Cullman and Benjamin Rosen, who made the short documentary Black Cherokee, and Riley Hooper, who made the short documentary Flo. Also included was Jill Orschel, who made the short documentary Like a Dance, director Tad Nakamura (for Jake Shimabukuro – Life on Four Strings) and director Greg Finton (for The World According to Dick Cheney). Filmed by SOU video production students.