Christine Acham and Clifford Ward, known for their 2011 documentary "Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise and Fall of The Spook Who Sat By The Door," are back at work on another feature film set in Chicago, this time looking at the plague of gun violence among Chicago youth. The new film, "A Dream Dispersed," seeks to tell a nuanced story of the people who live and work in Chicago’s inner city neighborhoods, in their own words. The documentary is to be filmed over a year and will follow a community program that mentors "at risk" youth in some of the city's most troubled neighborhoods. Says Acham of the project: We are working...
- 6/1/2015
- by Jai Tiggett
- ShadowAndAct
Here at S&A we’ve covered Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise And Fall of The Spook Who Sat By The Door a number times, before and after it gained prominence in the film market. For those unaware, this documentary tells the story behind the making of the cult-favorite movie The Spook Who Sat By The Door, with interviews centering around Sam Greenlee, the writer of the original book and screenplay, along with film co-stars Paul Butler, J.A. Preston and the late director Ivan Dixon’s wife Berlie Dixon, among other notables. The directors of this telling documentary are Christine Acham and Cliff Ward. Christine Acham received her PhD in Critical Studies from the USC School of...
- 3/19/2014
- by Curtis Caesar John
- ShadowAndAct
Here at S&A we’ve covered Infiltrating Hollywood: The Rise And Fall of The Spook Who Sat By The Door a number times, before and after it gained prominence in the film market. For those unaware, this documentary tells the story behind the making of the cult-favorite movie The Spook Who Sat By The Door, with interviews centering around Sam Greenlee, the writer of the original book and screenplay, along with film co-stars Paul Butler, J.A. Preston and the late director Ivan Dixon’s wife Berlie Dixon, among other notables. The directors of this telling documentary are Christine Acham and Cliff Ward. Christine Acham received her PhD in Critical Studies from the USC...
- 2/25/2013
- by Curtis Caesar John
- ShadowAndAct
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