How Adam Irving stayed the course to make 'Off the Rails'

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

First-time filmmaker Adam Irving faced a lot of obstacles telling the tale of compulsive New York train thief Darius McCollum. But Irving was determined to get his movie Off the Rails made. He tells us how he did it, and what he learned about making and marketing documentaries along the way.

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0:00.0	A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life.
0:03.0	You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail.
0:08.0	Have I ever gone to jail?
0:09.0	Yeah, I just got out, actually.
0:10.0	If he doesn't show up the court, we've got to pay the $50,000.
0:13.0	No degree exchange, no kiss the bride.
0:16.0	There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding.
0:19.0	Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back
0:24.1	are now available on KCRW's iTunes page.
0:30.3	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.
0:36.9	When I discovered Darius's story, I stayed up till 4 in the morning that night making
0:41.2	sure there was no other documentary.
0:43.7	And when I was certain that there wasn't, I just knew in that moment that I would spend
0:47.6	the next three years of my life telling that story.
0:51.0	When aspiring documentarian Adam Irving approached Darius McCollum about telling his story, he learned he was the 27th person who hoped to make a film about this obsessed New Yorker who just couldn't stop stealing trains and buses despite repeated incarcerations.
1:07.9	Irving tells us how he succeeded where others failed, and how his documentary, Off the Rails,
1:12.7	turned into something more than the simple caper movie he originally intended to make.
1:17.4	But first on the news banter, will the feds let AT&T buy Time Warner, and Sumner Redstone wants a refund.
1:24.2	Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.
1:36.5	I am joined by my colleague in banter. Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. Hello, Matt.
1:42.9	Hi there. You know, last week, we had just been hearing rumors of a potential AT&T bid for Time Warner.
2:01.7	And very quickly, after we had that conversation, AT&T not only bid for Time Warner, but Time Warner agreed to accept the offer. It's a very rich offer. It's better than the one that Rupert Murdoch floated a couple years ago. It is a huge mega deal. It's very vertical, meaning we're not looking at a situation where one studio or television network acquires something very similar. You know, AT&T is broadband and wireless, and Time Warner is
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