So that moment happened really organically and we let it play out in real time in the movie,

and the same way it played out in real life.

When she said that, you know, that most of what the police do is legal, I was stopped in my tracks.

And when you hear me say, um, we didn't add any more time to that pause.

That literally was the first thing that came out of my mouth after she said that. And at that

moment, we also let, like, we let the curtain of the facade of the interview fall, right? So she's

fixing her lipstick. She's drinking water. She looks so uncomfortable. She's looking at me, look at her,

trying to figure this out. And, you know, when I, when I get to this thing, it's the first thing that came to mind. Like, I want to ask about this weed because who are you talking about?

I'm going to... Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, a critical look at the American police system is undertaken, and director Yancey Ford's documentary, Power.

Screened as part of the DGA's documentary series, the film investigates the American policing

system, which has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Driven to contain threats to

social order, it can now be described by one word, power.

In addition to power, Ford's other directorial credits include the documentary features, Strong Island, and the Color of Care,

episodes of the television documentary series Trial by Media, and Work in Progress, and episodes of the documentary mini-series Pride and

The Me You Can't See.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,

Ford spoke with director Christy Jacobson about filming power.

Listen on for their conversation.

I would just like to, I was going to say, it's hard to like applaud at the end of a film like this.

I don't know if maybe we should just take some breaths together.

I'm not someone who typically meditates, so this is hard for me. But I do think just a moment

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