This episode of Zack's Film Talks at SDSU is hosted by Libsyn.

My guests are Nathan Mook and Gabe Dinsmoor, producers of the HBO documentary Baltimore Rising, directed by The Wire's Sonja Sohn (Detective Kima Greggs).

Sohn's directorial debut, which has won high praise from the Baltimore Sun, Essence, Newsweek, Newsday, and WBAL, looks at Baltimore in the aftermath of the death of Freddie Gray.

Mook and Dinsmoor talk about:

following the documentary's nine principal characters, including community leader Genard "Shadow" Barr; youth organizer Makayla Gilliam-Price; activist Kwame Rose; Dayvon Love and Adam Jackson, who created the Baltimore think tank Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle; Melvin Russell, the Baltimore Police Dept.'s Community Partnership Division chief; and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis.
dealing with the arrest of a cinematographer and cast members in the midst of shooting the documentary
editing 600 hours of footage down to 90 minutes
how director Sonja Sohn "let circumstances speak for themselves" rather than going in with a fixed perspective

Listen to Sonja Sohn at Salon.com.

Episode edited by Chris Burke.