i think it was an unconscious way of protecting me. >> actress mariel hemingway barbara kopple and barbara. we will talk more about their film in a moment. ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we continue our conversation in partpark city, utah with mariel hemingway and barbara kopple about "running from crazy" >> it on thing is, that was hard to believe. she modeled her life after my grandfather. the navy as a child she did not know. but as she went out into the world and became a model and was traveling to paris and going -- >> she was a super model. >> she was the biggest. no model has ever been on the cover of "time." she was the first model to be paid several million dollars at one that just did not happen. -- back when that justice not happen. in my mind, it was a misinterpretation of someone's life. it is doing all the things that my grandfather did but without doing the creative part -- he was doing it for a reason. i'm not saying it was the most functional, but it is how he got himself to write. i think there's a

. >> we speak with mariel hemingway and two-time oscar- winning filmmaker barbara kopple about the hemingwayfamily history of mental illness and the suicides of seven relatives, including her sister, super model margaux, and her father ernest hemingway. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. thousands of people marched in washington, dc saturday in a rally for gun control. the demonstrators included a group of residents from newtown, connecticut, cited the december shooting rampage that killed 27 people. >> i have watched the news and other tragedies and, shame on me for just sitting there and being upset an not assigning it was time to change. i have always said, "oh, it is so horrible they could not get to that individual and help them." and now it has happened in my backyard. it is time. >> my sister was killed by a bullet through her heart 20 years ago, so all of the things that have been happening have really resonated with me. it really makes me happy and no finally there is movement on gun control -- to kn