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Right Now Film Festival

Peace Officer

+ Skype Q&A With Directors Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber

Dir. Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber, USA, 105 mins, 2015

Since the late 1970s there has been a 15,000% increase in SWAT team raids in the United States.

This multi award-winning documentary considers the increasingly militarised state of American police as told through the story of William ‘Dub’ Lawrence, a former sheriff who established and trained his rural state’s first SWAT team only to see that same unit kill his son-in-law in a controversial standoff 30 years later.

Engrossing and well crafted The Peace Officer picks apart illuminating cases from Dub’s unique perspective and combines the passion of a committed detective with the grief of a victim.

‘As engrossing and well crafted as it is timely’
VARIETY

‘A refreshingly objective and levelheaded documentary that’s as culturally relevant as it is expertly paced and captivating.’
INDIEWIRE

‘A powerful and important film’
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Directors Q&A Session

The screening will be followed by a skype Q&A with the directors Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber.

Scott Christopherson

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

As an undergraduate Scott worked for Ross McElwee of Harvard University on his film In Paraguay. Ross helped guide Scott’s first film titled Only The Pizza Man Knows, which was broadcast internationally for over a year on the satellite cable network BYUtv. After his undergraduate work Scott worked as the Documentary Arts Director/Instructor for Spy Hop Productions and the Sundance Institute’s youth documentary workshops. His students’ films went on to win multiple awards locally and internationally and were nominated as the top short film in Utah two consecutive years. While living in San Francisco for graduate school, Scott shot, directed, and edited over 20 short films for Project Runway’s season six website. Scott received his MFA in documentary cinema from San Francisco State University and he also earned an MA degree in Anthropology from UW-Madison. He is currently an Assistant Professor of documentary film at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas.

Brad Barber

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Through a stroke of luck Brad got his start in documentary by shooting one across five continents in 2001. After returning to the states he attended USC where he received an MFA in Cinema-Television Production. He then worked in Los Angeles as an editor, cinematographer, and director/producer of documentary film and television, with credits on PBS, Showtime, Discovery Channel, ESPN, and Google, among others. Brad was nominated for an Emmy for his work as an editor on the HBO documentary Resolved, on which he also served as an associate producer and cinematographer, and has won multiple regional Emmys for his public television documentary series Beehive Stories. Brad is currently an Associate Professor of non-fiction film at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

Showing Times:

• Tue 1 Nov, 7.30pm

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix