Podcasts about war don don

Rebecca founded Racing Horse Productions in 2005. Rebecca is a lecturer on law at Harvard Law School teaching two classes in human rights and film.  In law school, Rebecca interned as an investigator at the Bronx Defenders and continued to do investigative work at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, after working there, she returned to Sierra Leone to begin production on War Don Don, a film which profiles the trial of a leader of a separate warring faction. Between trips to Sierra Leone, she has also been adjunct faculty at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and the Human Rights Institute at American University.  More recently, Rebecca has completed the documentary film, Code of the West, about the state of Montana is becoming the first in the US to repeal its medical marijuana law.  Rebecca has received coverage with an article published in the NY Times and Code of the West has launched a popular Kickstarter campaign for the film.

Special Court Prosecutor Christopher Santora discusses the award winning documentary "War Don Don", the story of the Sierra Leone Special Court on war crimes.

Steve and John meetup at the Diesel Cafe in Davis Square, Boston and discuss the movies they've see as of Day 2 of the Boston Independent Film Festival. These include short documentaries, Harmony and Me which is a Mumblecore film, War Don Don (see the earlier episosde for a for the interview with the director, Rebecca Richman Cohen), Cyrus and Drones. John talks about Lemmy, the documentary about the founder of Motorhead that he is planning to see and will review in the next update. Steve is going to pass on Lemmy and see Life 2.0, the film about virtual world, Second Life, which is playing at the same time.

John Black interviews  Rebecca Richman Cohen, director of War Don Don who talks about her experience as an intern on a defense team and how that led to the production of her documentary about the international war crime tribunal's trial of Issa Sesay, commander in the Revolutionary United Front of Siera Leone.