Jason Osder, who visits UAlbany on Friday, is profiled in Filmmaker magazine:
Osder’s searing directorial debut, Let the Fire Burn, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, is an archival footage marvel. With no narration and sparse title cards, it dives into the maelstrom that was the Philadelphia Police Department’s tragic raid on the black separatist group MOVE’s West Philadelphia compound in 1985, during which the home, where 13 men, women and children lived, was shot upon 10,000 times, doused with unspeakable amounts of water and then finally firebombed. Almost everyone inside died, and nearly 70 other homes in the surrounding working-class black community were destroyed.
More in Filmmaker magazine: http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/jason-osder/#.VNO-ll8o7s0
More about Osder's visit tomorrow: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/osder_jason15.html
Thursday, February 5, 2015
A searing directorial debut-- Jason Osder
