From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

It's unfortunate because of the circumstances, but it's interesting that I can pinpoint the exact moment that I became a filmmaker and that this became a documentary.

In 2008, Rudy Valdez was working low-level production jobs to get by.

Seemingly out of the blue, his sister, married, pregnant, and the mother of two little girls,

got a stiff mandatory jail term on charges related to years-old drug crimes committed by her ex-boyfriend.

And Valdez's career suddenly came into focus.

Valdez tells us about becoming a filmmaker after setting out

to document the lives of his sister's kids, precious years she was missing in prison. At the same

time, he used his family's trauma to show the injustice of mandatory sentencing policies.

His film, The Sentence, won a big award at Sundance this year and bows this month on HBO.

But first on the news banter, the Me Too movement one year later.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood Reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So it's just about the one-year anniversary of the two exposés, one in the New York Times, one in the New Yorker, about Harvey Weinstein.

And as we well remember, the floodgates opened.

We at the Hollywood Reporter were instantly overwhelmed with

people calling with other Times Up Me Too stories. Multiple stories were written. And a year later,

you know, looking around, I'd say the report card is kind of mixed. I think it's worth starting

with noting some of the positive movement that has happened over the

past year. I mean, a number of people who had had these stories that they had not told for

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