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🗓️ 23 October 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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WEB BONUS: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim joins Elvis Mitchell for a Q&A following a screening of He Named Me Malala at LACMA.
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0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Josh Barrow, your new host of Left, Right, and Center. |
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0:31.8 | The Academy Award winning director of an inconvenient truth, and he named me Malala. |
0:35.6 | Ladies and gentlemen, please, Mr. Davis Davis Gugnoyneye so talk to me a little bit about growing up in that house with your father making those films. |
1:00.0 | What was that like? |
1:02.0 | Well, for those, we mentioned it briefly, my father made documentary films, and one of my earliest |
1:07.0 | memories was in 1968. |
1:10.0 | My father waking me up and saying, do you want to go to work with me today? |
1:12.7 | And I said, but it's dark outside. |
1:14.4 | He goes, it was very early in the morning. |
1:16.9 | And it was, he was filming with Bobby Kennedy. |
1:21.9 | And I remember getting on this plane with these guys in suits and guys with cameras. |
1:27.3 | And I said, this is the coolest job I could |
1:30.1 | ever imagine and and my father was this lovely man he was a lovely man and he was a great teacher |
1:37.9 | and he was a great father and he felt very passionately about the movies that he makes, movies he made, and that sort of came through. |
1:48.0 | And the kitchen table conversation was about, you know, storytelling and that if you're going to be a storyteller, it better be for something good. |
1:56.0 | Well, that's something, that's why I mentioned the Little Rock film, because it's, in addition |
2:02.4 | of being a piece about an issue, it's a really great piece of storytelling. |
2:06.4 | And he gives us an emotional point of entry in all those songs. |
2:09.9 | In fact, that Bobby Kennedy show is a really beautiful piece of rabble-rousing. |
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