we took it to sundance and what happens when you go to sundance is you bring some actors and some are given to you. i hadn't worked with the actors who we teamed up with at sundance, both excellent actors but people we didn't know so we didn't have a working relationship. there were moments where we worked where i could tell that the fellow, in particular, wasn't happy with his character because i had him standing there while the african american character went on and on. finally he said, phillip, i would not stand there and take that crap. the moment he opened his mouth, i would say stop. okay. so it wasn't contentious but what it was that area of discomfort. racial politics are very tricky this day and age and if you want to really address certain things, you have to go to that area of discomfort and you have to go to the area beyond discomfort of being slightly offensive of each other. as long as you are in a context of trust and say this is an art piece we are working on, we are working for the truth of the characters, at sundance i worked with two, in terms of the african america

phillip is also a respected independent film maker whose film recently premiered at sundance, but we're here to talk about his upcoming production, after the war. a jazz-infused drama set in post-war san francisco japan town in 1948 which chronicles the return of japanese americans into the internment -- from the internment camp. sharing this evening is chloe veltman. chloe was born in london and received a master's degree with distinction in conjunction with harvard university and the moscow art theater school. she has worked as a staff reporter for the daily telegraph and is a freelance writer, her articles appearing on both sides of the atlantic. she is the chief theater critic for the san francisco weekly, theater commentator for klaw. chloe worked for several years in u.s. and uk theater companies and is the recipient of the allen wright award for arts journalism, the sundance institute arts fellowship and the nea fellowship of journalism. in 2006, she received a best columnist nomination at the annual san francisco media excellence awards and her first book on acting was published

>> the sundance film festival, robert redford's festival in utah. it is really a very great platform to launch a film. first of all, all the industry is there, but a lot of press or there. we have always felt that the movie has a certain urgency to it. we would like for it to be a part of the conversation or debate about what the future of journalism is. even the pay wall, which is something the times has launched an people are debating whether it can work or not. the movie does not come down on one side or another as to the viability of that, but it does treat a lot of the arguments on either side. >> when you shot this documentary, what were the rules about when you return the camera off and leave it on and when you do something one of these reporters would say? >> the only understanding i had with the journalists was that if someone said to me at the moment that we were shooting, this has to be off the record, i have to call my wife or do something, that i would not use it. i think that only happened literally a handful of times. >> in the middle

amc owns it's namesake cable channel, as well as the sundance and ifc-- independent film channel-- cable brands. this is the past 180 sessions. c-v-c shares jumped 4.5% up to its highest price since march. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: one done, a few more to do. social networking web site linkedin was the first of what may be several social web sites going public. coupon web site groupon may be the next. but with high expectations comes high volatility. that brings us to tonight's "word on the street"-- "backbone." debra borchardt is a markets analyst at thestreet.com. so, deborah, you're looking at companies providing the backbone for social media web sites. what's really important here for investors to look at? >> well, i think what's really important is looking at these companies and what they're providing for these social networking sites. there's much lower risk in these-than-buying a linkedin or groupon stock. you look at these providing data storage and software that makes their pages load faster. so it's all those things that keep these social networking sites, yo

it had a big screening at sundance and stars east side morales who is the father who was in new yorkypd bill and labm but a and judy reyes who is the mother who is on scrubs. and basically they are dealing with their wonderful child who is in transitioning to becoming a girl and it's a great story. and the actors who plays vanessa, the daughter, is just phenomenal. >> and just while we were on that before we move on, chaz bono is scheduled to be here with his document, becoming chaz which people caught on oprah win free's network which i thought was done and chaz is a good spokesperson for this. >> exactly. chaz bono is coming to the festival. we are doing a big screening. it's such a special film and we are so excited about having him here and he is going to be a grand marshall in the pride parade as well. >> all right. let's see some of the clips we have here. one is called wish me away. >> wish me away is about the wonderful country music star shelly wright. she is the first lesbian country music star who came out of the closet. this happened in the past couple of years and made t

also calls for sundancer redemption after more than thirty years in u.s. prison and countless global supporters touting his innocence what's so wrong with clemency for leonard peltier. good evening it's monday june twenty seventh it's eight pm here in washington d.c. i'm lauren lyster and you are watching r.t. now the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for libyan leader moammar gadhafi along with his son also his military intelligence chief there for crimes against humanity against political opponents now this is the second time in the court's nine year history that it's issued an arrest warrant for a sitting head of state let's look at the success of the other one it was sudanese president omar al bashir who is not facing trial at the hague rather he is still ruling not facing those charges you see there here's some of the other arrests the court has issued the kenyan prime minister and minister for finance was charged with murder rape persecution among other charges he is at large not handed over to the court a few of the. people tha

and calls for sundancer redemption after more than thirty years in the u.s. prison and countless global supporters touting his innocence what is so wrong with clemency for leonard peltier. that evening it's monday june twenty seventh i'm laurin lister here in washington d.c. you're watching our t.v. now the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for libyan leader moammar gadhafi along with his son and also his military intelligence chief they are for crimes against humanity against political opponents now this is the second time in the court's nine year history that it has issued an arrest warrant for an actual sitting head of state let's take a look at the other that was for sudanese president omar al bashir and he is not facing trial at the hague he is still ruling in sudan despite those charges you see there now here are some of the other arrests the court has asked for the other charges that they have made one is for the former or the kenyan leader his deputy prime minister and minister of finance for the republic of kenya he is still i

. >> it was supposed to be a video and it ended up becoming a 30-minute short film that went to sundance to party" video? >> yeah. it's like -- >> jimmy: so they crawl out of the thing and then you see what they do. >> like susan sarandon. >> jimmy: they're basically just breaking things through glass -- >> like constantly for half-an-hour. >> jimmy: they keep breaking glass for half an hour. >> the craziest thing for me personally was -- ad-rock is my personal jam from the beasty boys. >> jimmy: that's your dude? >> uh, yeah. like big-time. >> jimmy: oh really? >> yeah. like in another lifetime yeah. yeah. >> jimmy: really? >> oh yeah. >> jimmy: so you love him. what happened, did you freak out? were you cool? >> well, he was there. i didn't talk to him at all. and then i -- and then i -- you know, i got out of the limo and we were all done. and i saw him and he was so handsome and like getting older and like more handsome. you know? and got super nervous. and so i went over to him he was just like quiet and gave him a hug. he was like good job. i'm like, "you're like the best of the bi

it was part of the sundance film festival and later won best documentary short at the ashland independent march the city of birmingham hosted a red carpet screening of this wonderful movie and it was attended by over 2,000 alabamians. it was featured at the alabama theater a venue that once refused admission to african-americans. tonight, we will celebrate the "barbour of birmingham" with its -- "barber of birmingham" and will be screened at civil dots festival in silver springs, maryland. mr. speaker, the screening of this film and its historic accounts are deserving of tribute. i commend the independent filmmakers and co-directors, robin friday, and the late gail dolgen for their collaborative vision and capturing mr. james armstrong's life. a birm --ingham legend, it told the thousands of foot soldiers that were not written in the history books. i applaud the directors for their wonderful ren dention of mr. james armstrong's life. i applaud gail dolgen for her steadfast determination while battling breast cancer and co-directing through her hospice bed in order to submit the film for t

the subject of a new documentary called "buck" which received the audience award at this year's sundanceroubled background. as a young child he was abused by his stage dad who thrusted him into the world of trick roping. >> every day we talked about whether a dad would kill one of us or both of us. and that's a weird conversation for an 11-year-old boy to have to have with his 13-year-old brother. >> reporter: buck eventually found solace and his true calling, horses. >> i figured the only friends i had in the world were horses. it's almost like they sort of understood me. >> when you look at a horse, you can honestly say you saved my life. >> oh, yeah. there are things that the horse did for me that the person, a human, just couldn't have done. >> reporter: his uncanny ability to connect with horses from the docile to the dangerous got this straight talking cowboy noticed, and hollywood came calming. he was the inspiration for the best-selling novel and movie "the horse whisperer" directed by and starring robert redford. >> buck played a greater role than a lot of people realized. he co