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A Visit to San Quentin’s Death Row
“They resented me for cheating death. It seemed like they had been looking forward to it. “ An investigative journalist contacted me with the story of a man - lets call him K - who has been on Death Row in San Quentin prison in California for 29 years and who is...
IN-DEPTH: RAVE Magazine interview – the making of ‘PINK FLOYD: THE STORY OF WISH YOU WERE HERE’
Talking to Denis Semchenko, Rave Magazine, Australia: Hi John - where are you right now? Hi Denis. I’m in New York, where I’m semi-permanently based. How does one shoot a Pink Floyd documentary? The simple answer to that question is you shoot it with a great Director...
The Art of Documentary Editing
Ray Frawley 1950 - 2010. I was shocked to get a phone call in June that my friend Ray Frawley ,the film editor, had died of cancer. He had just reached his 60th birthday. Ray was the guiding hand behind the majority of my documentaries from 1991 until 2005. He was far...