Sam Pollard
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Sam Pollard said
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“At Pulse Films we are passionate about making music documentaries that tell intimate, and unique stories about the world’s most iconic artists,”
eurweb Thursday, April 7, 2022 3:56:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard added
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“Some of these documentaries that used to be made about artists were, to be blunt, dull, just dull,” “Jeff came in with some visual motifs and a point of view and took it to another level”
guardian Thursday, April 15, 2021 10:05:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard recalls
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“Originally, Henry Louis Gates and myself thought we should build it around Thelma Golden’s 1994 exhibition that was at the Whitney, The Black Male. She was the one who suggested we reach out to David Driskell,” “I met up with David at his apartment on 100th Street and Central Park West. We had a very nice dinner and talked about the genesis of Two Centuries and the artists that he included in the exhibition”
guardian Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:08:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“The notion of a black aesthetic was something that was very important in the 60s and 70s coming out of the civil rights struggle and the black power movement,”
guardian Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:08:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“For me, it really opens the film up so you’re not just listening to them talk about their work, but you’re seeing them at work, which is very important,”
guardian Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:08:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard explains
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about Angeles County Museum
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“The only thing you had after the Two Centuries of Black American Art appeared at the museums in Los Angeles and toured in Dallas and Atlanta, and then came to Brooklyn, was the catalog,” “Now you have not just a catalog, but a documentary that speaks to the lasting legacy of David Driskell and the importance of his work. And how it’s absolutely important now”
guardian Wednesday, February 10, 2021 10:08:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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"A Black artist is going to be able to see those people, really see them, and not in a way the way that a white artist would. A white artist wouldn't see Michelle and Barack in the way they came in and Amy saw those people. That's why they were selected," "That's what Barack and Michelle understood, that in terms of representation, creating the representation of these two, they had to have a Black artist who understood who they were, who could see them, who could understand how to present them"
AfricaNews-English Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:29:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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"Specifically this: that as great as some of these artists are that we learned about when I was a young man, there was a group of (Black) great artists that still existed around that same time," "And there's a group of great artists in the 21st century, African-American artists, that are definitely on the rise of being recognized. It's important"
AfricaNews-English Wednesday, February 10, 2021 7:29:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard explained
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“For me, the process of making a film is shaped by first wanting to create,”
thedailybeast Tuesday, February 9, 2021 7:22:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"The first fear that [FBI director J. Edgar Hoover] had was that King was going to align himself with the Communist Party, which ... J. Edgar Hoover was obsessed with destroying,"
npr Monday, January 18, 2021 5:47:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“The film looks at this parallel story of the FBI and King and how they came together in terms of the FBI surveilling King, trying to destroy him,”
thegrio Monday, January 18, 2021 1:29:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“Here’s a man that was dealing with lots of things on his shoulders, and you see it etched in his face,”
nytimes Saturday, January 16, 2021 4:00:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“I’m trying to look at the complexity in human life from different perspectives,”
nytimes Saturday, January 16, 2021 4:00:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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about Rev Dr
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"And lo and behold, after they started wire-tapping Dr. King and his associates, they found out the other stuff about King and his personal life,"
abc7ny Saturday, January 16, 2021 1:08:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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about Dream
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"He was the great orator at the March on Washington, with his 'I Have a Dream' speech," "But he was a man who was complicated in his personal life"
abc7ny Saturday, January 16, 2021 1:08:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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"Not to say there hasn't been progress," "There has, but systemic racism is a part of America's DNA"
abc7ny Saturday, January 16, 2021 1:08:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"A lot of the stuff we were looking at and dealing with in this film continues to plague America – I use that word, ‘plague’," "Systemic racism, the notion of how the American notion of democracy sometimes doesn’t mean that Black people and people of colour should be included in it"
msn-uk Friday, January 15, 2021 1:09:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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about Martin Luther King
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"I kind of assumed that King was very popular in America, but he wasn't,"
arkansasonline Friday, January 15, 2021 10:54:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"The idea that Dr. King had been a close confidant of somebody who had been a Communist was enough to raise the alarm bells for J. Edgar Hoover," "He was obsessed with Communism basically destroying American society. He was obsessed with the idea that a Black man like Dr. King could have such a strong and positive hold on many Americans, African Americans and white people [trying] to change the directory about what this country was all about. He was obsessed with any organization or any individual that was going to undermine his notion of American democracy. With the creation of COINTELPRO [Counter Intelligence Program], he was watching Dr. King, the Nation of Islam, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, the Black Panther Party"
arkansasonline Friday, January 15, 2021 10:54:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard warns
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"You've got to be careful with that kind of material,"
arkansasonline Friday, January 15, 2021 10:54:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"When I was watching the attack on the Capitol last week with people smashing the windows and going to the Rotunda, it made me reflect that this isn't an anomaly,"
arkansasonline Friday, January 15, 2021 10:54:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"That group was revolutionary in its agenda and in its goals and execution. It was an amazing organization. It was a real honor to be able to spend time with the people involved in ACORN in Little Rock, Chicago and New York. I think it's a very important film,"
arkansasonline Friday, January 15, 2021 10:54:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard dijo
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about Martin Luther King
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“La pregunta que Ben y yo nos hicimos una y otra vez era: ¿Estamos haciendo lo que el FBI trató de hacer hace tantos años? ¿Le estamos haciendo eso al legado de King?”
orlandosentinel Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:51:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard dijo
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“Sabíamos que teníamos que lidiar con eso” “Pero nuestra responsabilidad y nuestro desafío era lidiar con eso de una manera que no fuera de mal gusto sino responsable”
orlandosentinel Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:51:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard dijo
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“Cada vez que leía un documento que fue ampliamente tachado decía, ‘Caray, ¿a qué suena esto en realidad?’” “Como cineasta, hubiera sido un tesoro tener las grabaciones. Honestamente, quizás tengamos que revisitar esta película cuando esas cintas salgan a la luz para hacer un apéndice”
orlandosentinel Thursday, January 14, 2021 11:51:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“In many ways, what we saw last Wednesday wasn’t an anomaly,”
seattlepi Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:26:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“The question that Ben and I kept asking ourselves over and over again: Were we actually doing what the FBI was trying to do so many years ago -- are we now doing that to King and his legacy?”
seattlepi Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:26:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“Every time I would read one of the documents that was heavily redacted I would say, ‘Damn, what does it really sound like?’” “As a filmmaker, it would have been gold to have the tapes. Honestly, we may have to revisit this film when those tapes come out to make an addendum”
seattlepi Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:26:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“We knew we had to deal with it,” “But our responsibility and our challenge was to deal with it in a way that we thought wasn’t going to be tawdry but responsible”
seattlepi Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:26:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"The question that Ben and I kept asking ourselves over and over again: Were we actually doing what the FBI was trying to do so many years ago -- are we now doing that to King and his legacy?"
startribune Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:02:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"Every time I would read one of the documents that was heavily redacted I would say, 'Damn, what does it really sound like?'" "As a filmmaker, it would have been gold to have the tapes. Honestly, we may have to revisit this film when those tapes come out to make an addendum"
startribune Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:02:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"We knew we had to deal with it," "But our responsibility and our challenge was to deal with it in a way that we thought wasn't going to be tawdry but responsible"
startribune Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:02:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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"In many ways, what we saw last Wednesday wasn't an anomaly,"
startribune Thursday, January 14, 2021 9:02:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“In many ways, what we saw last Wednesday wasn’t an anomaly,”
beaumontenterprise Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:46:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“The question that Ben and I kept asking ourselves over and over again: Were we actually doing what the FBI was trying to do so many years ago -- are we now doing that to King and his legacy?”
beaumontenterprise Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:46:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“Every time I would read one of the documents that was heavily redacted I would say, ‘Damn, what does it really sound like?’” “As a filmmaker, it would have been gold to have the tapes. Honestly, we may have to revisit this film when those tapes come out to make an addendum”
beaumontenterprise Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:46:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“We knew we had to deal with it,” “But our responsibility and our challenge was to deal with it in a way that we thought wasn’t going to be tawdry but responsible”
beaumontenterprise Thursday, January 14, 2021 8:46:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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"They're going to learn this was a man who was at the head of the civil rights movement and became probably reluctantly at the beginning the leader, when he sort of led the people in the Montgomery bus boycott," "But at the same time, they had to know that he was being surveilled 24/7 by the FBI you know, every day of his life,"
AfricaNews-English Monday, January 11, 2021 7:39:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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about Lyndon Johnson
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"Realising that he had to take a stance on Vietnam, that he knew, he knew as an intelligent man, he knew that he would get pushback from not only people in his constituency, in the civil rights movement, but from LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) and the federal government,"
AfricaNews-English Monday, January 11, 2021 7:39:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“It’s actually not that difficult to get material from the FBI,”
guardian Thursday, December 31, 2020 6:17:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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about Martin Luther King
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“Dr King makes a TV appearance,”
guardian Thursday, December 31, 2020 6:17:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard says
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“Unless he could have adapted to the time,”
guardian Thursday, December 31, 2020 6:17:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We are using all available resources to search for the boater who has been missing since yesterday,”
foreignaffairs-nz Monday, June 15, 2020 5:28:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. … there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
expressindia Saturday, April 4, 2020 8:19:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. … there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
citynews-ca Saturday, April 4, 2020 2:10:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. … there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
therepublic Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:34:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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"We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer," "But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody"
timescolonist Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:28:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
accesswdun Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:15:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
news4jax Saturday, April 4, 2020 12:04:00 AM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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about Wayne Williams
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. … there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that didn’t kill anybody”
washtimes Friday, April 3, 2020 11:49:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
seattlepi Friday, April 3, 2020 11:24:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
TorontoStar Friday, April 3, 2020 11:23:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
kiro7 Friday, April 3, 2020 11:21:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
clickondetroit Friday, April 3, 2020 11:19:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
click2houston Friday, April 3, 2020 11:09:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. … there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
ChinaPost Friday, April 3, 2020 10:55:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
beaumontenterprise Friday, April 3, 2020 10:54:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
actionnewsjax Friday, April 3, 2020 10:52:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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"We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer," "But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. ... there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn't kill anybody"
startribune Friday, April 3, 2020 10:51:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard said
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“We walked into this project thinking Wayne was the killer,” “But as we started to dig into the research, educate people and connect the dots. … there may have been a rush to judgement in this trial. For me personally, I came to the conclusion that Wayne didn’t kill anybody”
tribtown Friday, April 3, 2020 10:27:00 PM EAT
Sam Pollard added
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"People around the world can watch this series and see some of themselves. And maybe rethink their own attitudes,"
CBSnews Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:19:00 PM EAT
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