Movie Talk with Nick Broomfield.
Description
Nick Broomfield discusses his most famous documentaries. Tales of the Grim Sleeper 2014 documents the situation in South Central Los Angeles where amongst the impoverished streets a crack cocaine epidemic was thriving, as was a serial killer named Lonnie Franklin. This documentary is about the murder of 10 black women and a dismissive and unaccountable police department. Biggie and Tupac is also set in Compton, South Central L.A. Nick discusses the gang war between the East and the West coast and the two infamous murders. Nick discusses meeting Sarah Palin in his doco You Betcha 2011, he mentions how affable she was. Another documentary discussed is entitled The Leader, His Driver from 1991. Nick follows Eugene Terre Blanche, leader of the neo-Nazi party in South Africa. Tracking down Maggie a 1994 doco about Margaret Thatcher. Nick goes into more detail about the Kurt & Courtney doco, how difficult it was to get made and screened. Alieen was very interesting to Nick because she was female serial killer and granted Nick her final interview before being executed. Ghosts 2006 Nick discusses the Morecambe Bay disaster where 25 Chinese cockle pickers drowned. Battle of Haditha 2007 is about the Iraq war, from the perspectives of the Marines, The Resistance and the local people living in the cross fire. Nick's demeanour is hopeful and humourous, he describes how not having a conventional script enables you to really take the audience on a journey.