it follows the granddaughter of the great novelist ernest hemingway, mariel hemingway, focusing on her family's history of mental illness and suicide of seven relatives including her sister margo, the super model, and her grandfather, earnest. in the film, she opens up about how she put her own depression and suicidal thoughts behind her. the film is directed by two-time oscar-winning filmmaker barbara kopple, the first film she ever made alone, to cut carbon county usa" won an oscar in 1977. i sat down with barbara kopple and last mariel hemingway to get the sundance film festival. first, let's go back to 1954, an excerpt of the late, great writer ernest hemingway's speech accepting the nobel prize for literature. >> except other which humility. there is no need to list these writers. everyone here may make its own list according to his knowledge and his conscience. it would be impossible for me to ask the ambassador of my country to read a speech in which a writer said all the things which are in his heart. things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this s

no one knows for sure, but these seem to be the last real sentences ernest hemingway set down on paper amid so much ruin, still a beauty. thank you very much. [applause] >> robert richardson is next from the 30th annual literary seminar in florida. he has written on henry david thoreau, william james and ralph waldo emerson delivered a speech titled in search of lost time, biography and fiction. "in search of lost time: biography and fiction". >> good morning. stacey shift was a wonderful biographer of among others cleopatra, recently observed biographers have all had two lives. okay in the back? can you hear? in one realm, she says, the biographers, they are moving forward in ignorance. in the other you are moving backward with something resembling omniscience. what she doesn't say is that along with the illusion of something like omniscience, the biographer usually has a lot of attitude on display. one can be washable, a geographic, feel pious, or the bunker, muckrakers, one can defend or defame, expos, sensationalized, sentimentalized, one can be a myth buster or a mythmaker. not ma

i had appeared on the day before is that for all of the undeniable, appalling, dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light. there was this bone of generosity and sometimes it came out best when a child was involved and not his own child necessarily, and especially an ill child. who would not respond to that? but he seems to respond in a special way. and so i was thinking of reading something of a key west passage and i said no, that would be like a piece of coal. i will bring something to newcastle so i'm not going to read that. i'm just going to read this little moment from the end of the prologue and indeed it is the end of ernest hemingway's life. when everything is lost but there is still something there. loop backwards 17 days from his death to june 15, 1961 in rochester minnesota. a man in the psychiatric ward at saint mary's st. mary's hospital at mayo clinic is writing a letter to a 9-year-old toy. the man writes it on two small sheets of no paper and his big round legible hand with his trademark downhill slant and irreversibly damaged ernest hemingway of paranoids nightma

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 know finally there is movement on gun control. it seems like an important time for us to stand a gathering keep moving forward on it. that is what

. >>> she's the granddaughter of the legendary author ernest hemingway but mariel hemingway gained famet. she explores her family's history of depression. mental illness and suicide. it is a way to help herself and others. i want you to see this. this is an excerpt from "running from crazy" premiered at sundance. take a look. >> there's no one outside of yourself that can help you or love you the way you need except you. you know this is what i talk about to people. i know a lot about how to -- how people can live a better life. how they can be happy. how they cannot fear stuff that i've feared my whole life. but sometimes it's such a misunderstanding of the being i really am. you know, i get that. i often say it, i'll speak to people, yeah i know you think you know me, tall blond, no problems, what does she have to say to me? ooh i say that, of course, i get it. i would think the same thing. guess what? a bunch of funky [ bleep ] in my family, i'm scared, too. >> mariel hemingway, she's joining us from park city, utah. so nice to see you. really such a pleasure here. let's talk a littl

and about eight or ten of them have been signed by ernest hemingway, and that was a really great find. there were other books in their signed by barnaby conrad, who was an altar that wrote about bullfights, so it was related to hemingway who was also a physician of bullfights. and there was a book signed by john steinbeck. it was just a great catch. when we get something like that it cannot be they collectors or other dealers, they are quick to come in and make purchases. we started out as a pretty small store and it slowly grew over the years and had been able to adapt to the changes in the book trade, which had been pretty substantial with the introduction of the internet and changes in people's book buying habits. the people coming into the store was the dominant driving force for sales. we did some mail-order, but it was pretty small. once the internet started, especially amazon, that kind of changed people's buying habits. so we saw a reduction of people coming into the store, what-and traffic, and then increase in mail-ordered traffic and people order -- ordering over the phone,

panel that i appear on the day before is that for all of the undeniable, appalling dark side of ernest hemingway there was also the light. it cannot best when a child was involved especially and ill child who wouldn't respond to that but seemed to respond in a special way. so i was thinking of reading something of a key west passage and i said it would be like a piece of coal offering something in newcastle so i'm not going to read that. i am just going to read this little moment from the end of the prologue of, and indeed it is the end of ennis hemingway's life when everything is lost but there is still something of their. look backward 17 days from his death to june 15th, 1961 at rochester minnesota. a man in the psychiatric ward of the mayo clinic is writing a letter to a 9-year-old boy. amana writes on too small sheets of newspaper in the ground level hand with his trademark. his landscape now has found within himself at the end of his life the kindness and courage and momentary lucidity not to say literary grace but right beautiful kids to a -- rights words to kids he likes. when i read his

outreach program and it was a donation of books, about eight or 10 of them had been signed by ernest hemingway and that was a really great find. there were other books in their signed by barnaby conrad who was an author that wrote about old sites, so it was related to hemingway, who is also an aficionado of all faith. there is a they make john steinbeck. it is just a great catch. when i get something like that, either collectors are rather dealers are quick to comment and make purchases. we started out as a pretty small store and slowly grew over the years and have been able to adapt teaching is in the booktrade, which have been pretty substantial with the introduction of the internet and changes in people spoke buying habits. the people coming into the store was the dominant driving force for sales. we did some mail order, but it was pretty small. once the internet started, especially amazon, that kind of changed people's buying habits, suicide reduction of people coming into the store, walk in traffic and an increase in mail-order traffic and people ordering over the phone, by mail, especial

one documentary in particular caught the eye of our very own zoraida, it involves the author ernest hemingwayie, running with crazy. >> reporter: it is running with crazy. and it stars mariel hemingway, it is her documentary. and she was running around like crazy yesterday promoting this film. and we talked about the fact that her grandfather, earnest hemingway, shottest in the head and that her sister, margo, died of a drug overdose. >> we go a little bit into my grandfather. the reason why he killed himself is because he was very depressed and couldn't write anymore. and then his father had killed himself and my grandmother's father had killed himself and high great uncle and my uncle and -- and then my sister, margo. >> so you see the girl sitting next to her, that is her daughter, langley, and she actually saw the film for the first time here at sundance. and i asked her how did it feel for you to sit there and listen to your mother share all of her deep dark secrets. here's what she had to say. >> if you just like -- if you ultimate yourself into a position where you're going to not see