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A Problem of Power was
commissioned by the National Council of Churches and was meant to portray
poverty in Latin America. At that time I was the Manager of the Center for
Mass Communication (CMC) at Columbia University, and the small budget for
a 45 minute documentary limited our location to one country which we felt
was representative of most of South America. Colombia was the country sel
ected. \; My crew consisted of a cinematographer (who was a native of
Bogota), a sound man, a bilingual interviewer selected by the NCC plus one
of their representatives, and myself. \; \; We brought with us a
number of contacts in and around Bogota and began our film interviewing a
Protestant missionary who had lived in South America for many years. \
; He identified a rebel Roman Catholic priest who became the narrator and
hero of the film. \; During the course of our one month stay, we inter
viewed members of the power elite: \; the rich\; and the poor, includi
ng many peasants and dwellers of the most primitive shacks in the barrios.
I believe we created an intimate \; portrait of the life of some of t
he most desperate mass of individuals alive, replete with awesome and tell
ing visuals, as well as much local music. \; Although the film was mad
e some time ago, I think that their lives and living conditions have not i
mproved very much at all.
A Problem of Power will be preceded by a short titled Fable Safe which I produced at the height of the Cold War, and it opened the N
ew York Film Festival the year it was released.
My career as a
filmmaker began with my first job as a page at NBC just after graduating
from college. \; Six years there became my basic training in televisio
n, followed by three years at Radio Free Europe in Munich. When I returned
to the US I created the first independent-voiced international news servi
ce, the precursor of CNN. \; After a couple of years as manager of For
eign News at WOR and RKO General, I spent two years at PBS and then a deca
de at Columbia University where I was first hired as Manager of the Center
for Mass Communication and then segued into my teaching career. \; I
resigned to found Mass Communications during which time I was a consultant
to the United Nations, the Consulate General of Japan, and the President
of Harvard. \; In 1988 I was appointed Director of the Department of F
ilm, Video and Broadcasting at NYU, a position I held until my early retir
ement. \; After leaving my day job, I founded Westminster Productions,
Inc., which has kept me busy ever since. \; In addition to the above,
I have lectured on eleven luxury cruise lines giving a workshop titled &#
8220\;Creating a Video Documentary of Your Cruise”\; and have been th
e principal author of the best-selling text Movie Making: A Guide to F
ilm Production. \; I am currently editing a series of interviews
I created with John Kenneth Galbraith when he was 90 years old. \;
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