by Cliff Vaughn | Apr 1, 2011 | Opinion
“You don’t have to go to India to see a tiger. You don’t have to go to Canada to see a cougar. You don’t have to go to Africa to see a Gaboon viper. You can go to Anytown, USA. Those animals are here,” says Tim Harrison, one of the...
by Cliff Vaughn | Mar 31, 2011 | Opinion
Some legislators want to defund U.S. public broadcasting. If that happens, one organization that would be affected is StoryCorps. Since 2003, StoryCorps has recorded and archived more than 30,000 interview sessions with ordinary Americans and, significantly, archived...
by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 12, 2010 | Opinion
Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer is back in the public mind these days with a new show on CNN – and a new feature documentary about his rise and fall. One might also add that the popular new CBS show “The Good Wife” is nourishing a Spitzer-esque...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 19, 2010 | Opinion
Virtually nothing of what you’re about to read survived the final cut of “Sacred Texts, Social Duty.” In editing any documentary, you have to cut – a lot. And you have to cut lines, explanations and scenes that you think are important, even terribly...
by Cliff Vaughn | Oct 11, 2010 | Opinion
To produce our new documentary, “Sacred Texts, Social Duty,” Robert Parham and I drove to Arkansas and Alabama and flew to Illinois, Virginia and Oregon. With neither time nor money for advance or follow-up visits, we got one chance to get the story. We...
