Joe Berlinger

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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🗓️ 16 January 2012

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Alec talks with director Joe Berlinger about his latest film for HBO Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory -- the third film in a series of documentaries about a crime that took place 18 years ago in rural Arkansas.

Berlinger says, “We made these three movies as acts of advocacy” – which is not his usual style as a long-time documentary filmmaker. “I believe the audience should be treated like a jury. You give them the information, you weigh both sides, and you let them come to their own conclusion.” These films were different, acknowledges Berlinger: “We clearly have a point of view that there is a huge injustice.”

Early in his career, Berlinger worked for famed documentarians David and Albert Maysles. He says the Maysles brothers taught him about “The act of faith about making a film about real life as it’s unfolding.” Berlinger is known for his documentary work, has dabbled in features, but says he’d “love another opportunity to do a feature at some point, but, you know, I’m just used to being the author of my own work, being totally in control.”

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0:00.0	This is the story of a man who's fascinated me.
0:03.5	His name was Sweet Daddy Grace, and that's a name you don't forget.
0:08.0	He was a visionary who built a fortune as a black man during Jim Crow, during the Depression.
0:15.0	But today, not many people know about him.
0:18.0	He raised, sort of wiped out, and I wonder if this was done intentionally.
0:23.0	Listen to Sweet Daddy Grace on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.0	From I Heart Podcasts and Nomadic Engine, the acclaimed, dramatic thriller returns.
0:35.0	After Shock, Season 2. He's like a ghost.
0:38.0	We had an agreement to keep each other's secrets.
0:41.0	Not if you were making decisions to keep the rest of us safe, which leaves me.
0:46.0	I'm asking for your forgiveness.
0:49.0	After Shock, Season 2, starring Sarah Wayne Callies, David Harbor, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
0:56.0	Listen to After Shock on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:02.0	Hi, it's Elvis Jaran, on my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud with Elvis Jaran.
1:07.0	I'll be bringing you candid and maybe sometimes a little crazy interviews with people from all walks of life.
1:12.0	We'll touch on subjects that you just can't talk about on the radio, like life, love, success, failure, whatever else comes to mind.
1:18.0	But all jacked up, because after being in this business for as long as I have, I want to get to the bottom of what makes people tick.
1:24.0	Listen to my new podcast, Thinking Out Loud on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:32.0	I'm Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing.
1:36.0	Joe Burlinger has been making documentaries for almost two decades, along with his directing partner, Bruce Sinovsky.
1:43.0	Their first film, Brothers Keeper, about a murder among brothers who were struggling dairy farmers in upstate New York, won the Sundance Film Festival in 1992.
1:54.0	Their most recent film is also about murder.
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