Journalist and filmmaker Robert Exley Jr. talks about the difficulties in covering one’s own personal history. Exley reflects on the challenges producing his award-winning doc, ‘Prodigal Father’, a film exploring the aftermath of his father’s decades-long heroin addiction and violent past.
The interview streams alongside the short film ‘Prodigal Father’ and was produced in collaboration with The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
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