Interview With "Incident" Director Bill Morrison & Producer Jamie Kalven

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

"Incident" examines the 2018 shooting of Harith "Snoop" Augustus by Chicago police officer Dillan Halley through a series of bodycam and surveillance footage montages. The film reconstructs the incident and its aftermath by piecing together perspectives from multiple sources—such as surveillance cameras, CCTV, dashboard cams, and body-worn cameras—into a synchronized split-screen presentation. Director Bill Morrison & Producer Jamie Kalven were kind enough to spend some time speaking with us about their work on the film which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now available to stream on YouTube and is nominated for Best Live Action Short Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.9	You are listening to The Next Best Picture Podcast, and this is Daniel Howitt's interview
0:19.7	with the director for incident, Bill Morrison,
0:22.5	and the film's producer, Jamie Calvin.
0:24.6	Police shot.
0:25.6	The shot's fired the police.
0:28.0	Police officer.
0:31.0	We've got a unit 70 emergency 7-1-5.
0:37.4	Fuck. Go ahead and 7-1-5. What we got? Who are you?
0:40.3	You got your fire.
0:42.3	We got a gun.
0:44.3	3.31. We're good EMS rolling for the offender and...
0:51.3	Sarge. That's me. You? Yeah. F fire, 31. Pull the gun out of me. Amor and her chance. You get him? Yeah. Was there only one? Wait, only one? Just you? Who else shot? Who else shot? Bill and Jamie, it is so good to chat with you about your film incident. It's such an impactful
1:12.0	film. I'm so thrilled for the Oscar nomination. Congratulations to the both of you on that
1:17.6	recognition. This is a very serious story, so it feels a little wrong to use the word celebration
1:23.5	in regards to your Oscar nomination. But how have you both been taking in this recognition
1:28.6	by the Academy for your film? I think, you know, the recognition is great, especially
1:33.5	among, you know, other filmmakers. But I think, you know, when you're trying to get a short
1:41.5	film out there, it's hard to garner much recognition.
1:45.8	And then it's reached this level.
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