We
want to thank HBO for putting on another great event for the The
New York Premiere of Little Rock Central: 50 Years Later. Sheila Nevins
took a chance on us years ago with a film called Dope Sick
Love,
and now again with a film about a famous high school in Arkansas. Like
so many other documentary filmmakers, we really do appreciate the
world Sheila has opened up for us. Where would documentary film in
America be without her.
So many people at
HBO poured their hearts into this film, above and beyond what their
job titles probably demanded. Our supervising producer, Lisa Heller,
is smart and talented beyond words and we can't wait to work with
her again. The event was made all the more important in that MinniJean
Brown, one of the original Little Rock Nine, who braved angry and violent
white mobs in 1957, to integrate Central High School, made the trip
to New York for the screening, and to support the film. If you get
a chance, watch, rent or buy the film, and let us know what you think.
