When we went to her with this project, what was so interesting about her, as I, you know, I said to her, you know, Pamela, I can, I have no other skills. I have nothing else to offer you. I think I could make a film. You know, would you want that? Is that something you would want? And, you know, the body camera footage, we talked about it. And I also said there's some really terrible, hard things to watch in there.

What do you want?

And she was like, no, make a film.

She was like, no, you, I want,

she basically wanted the world to know.

She said, I want the world to know what happened to my baby.

I want the world to know, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, the violent actions of a disgruntled neighbor place a Florida law into question,

and director Gita Ganbier's documentary, The Perfect Neighbor, which was screened as part of the DGA's documentary series.

Told mostly through police body cam footage, the film uses the shooting of a beloved mother of four as a case study to examine Florida's controversial stand-your-ground laws, revealing the consequences that can occur when individuals feel emboldened by the law to act on their fear and prejudice.

In addition to the perfect neighbor, Ganbier' other directorial credits include the future documentaries,

Loundez County, and The Road to Black Power,

Hungry to Learn, and I Am Evidence,

and episodes of the documentary series Katrina come hell and high water,

Black and Missing, and Why We Hate.

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

Gunbeyer spoke with director Yancey Ford about filming The Perfect Neighbor.

Listen on for their conversation. There are so many things that we could talk about with this film.

There's so much.

I think maybe we should start with your choice to use body cam footage to tell

the entire story. It's a stroke of genius. It's genius. Thank you. And thank you to you all

for being here tonight. I know the film actually

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