Questions by: Elissa Goldberg
Dr. Shawn P. Kildea is a full-time Communication/ Journalism professor at Rider University. He is a Native of Lawrenceville, N.J. and got his Doctorate at Rutgers University. He enjoys spending time with his wife and kids in his free time.
Q: How did you become interested in writing & producing movies?
A: I like specifically working with documentaries. These types of stories fascinate me and I am a minor history buff.
Q: How long does it typically take to write & produce a movie?
A: A small unfunded documentary film takes about 1 year to produce. A movie is typically 20 minutes long and the maximum is 30 minutes long.
Q: How did working on Stills of the Movement: The Civil Rights Photojournalism of Flip Schulke impact
your personal life?
A: A small unfunded documentary film takes about 1 year to produce. A movie is typically 20 minutes long and the maximum is 30 minutes long.
Q: How did working on Stills of the Movement: The Civil Rights Photojournalism of Flip Schulke impact
your personal life?
A: I researched an extensive archive of photographs from that time taken by a man named Flip Schulke. He documented the funerals of slain civil rights leaders Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King. While using these photos over the past year and a half I have developed a deep and abiding respect for these men whose lives were cut so short. Having four children myself, I understood in a way I couldn't have a decade ago just how much these men sacrificed for their cause. Many of these photographs show the children of King and Evers standing over their father's coffins as their mothers tried to console them. These photographs humanize men who have been rendered immortal by history.
Q: What film festivals have you attended & what awards have you received?
A: 1st place in the National Broadcasting Society, which won best documentary for a drama or comedy. Footnotes on Revolution won honorable mention with the National Broadcasting Society and won 1st place for best student film at Rider's Symposium.
Q: What film festivals have you attended & what awards have you received?
A: 1st place in the National Broadcasting Society, which won best documentary for a drama or comedy. Footnotes on Revolution won honorable mention with the National Broadcasting Society and won 1st place for best student film at Rider's Symposium.
Q: If you could work with any producer in the film industry, who would it be?
A: Judd Apatow- He writes contemporary "R" rated comedies which are raunchy and have "heart". The movies that he writes also are good stories about relationships.
Q: What is your favorite genre of movies?
A: Drama because I like to be moved and also like for movie to have meaning to it. For a movie to be good: all I ask for is for the movie is not to bore me!
For more information on Dr. Kildea and Still of the Movement visit: Story Teller: Shawn Kildea & Still of The Movement.
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I like that you incorporated photos into your Q&A and that you linked back to the documentary. You asked good questions.
As for style, I would have just noted in brackets the names real quick and then used initials.
Kaitlin MacRae said...
April 14, 2010 at 10:04 AM