From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the Treatment, the Home Edition. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I am honored to have sitting somewhere in the continent of North America

today talking to me the esteemed and renowned and deeply talented filmmaker, highly

Garima. He's got a terrific month coming up this month. He will have a master class

arranged through Array here in Los Angeles,

and he will be honored at the Academy Museum during this inaugural gala,

as given, I guess, what they're calling the Vantage Award.

It's the re-release of his 1993 film, Sankofa,

but it's a body of work of his that needs to be seen.

We'll talk about Sankofa and

everything else. Highly, I'm so happy to have you here. Thank you for doing this.

Thank you, my brother. This is this very, very good surprise for me.

I mean, I think what I love so much about your work when you talked about this is you edit

your own work. And we can talk about this in Sankofa because you take your time with the opening credit sequence,

and then the cuts get fast, and then they slow down again.

It's like you're basically helping us to breathe what your editing techniques, aren't you?

I would say first, before I elaborate the point you're making,

it's still an imperfect journey for me because,

you know, as we translate our narrative story into the cinematic medium, we are also

transporting our form. Every content has its own inherent form, and then the inherent form

and the content has to be going through the

process of your intellectual, emotional approach to structure a narrative out of all that.

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