The last interview I had at the Tribeca Film Festival was with producer Abigail Disney. She had 2 films at this years festival - Playground and Pray The Devil Back To Hell - both documentaries.
Both of these films are powerful stories on subject that Hollywood and the major media just won't touch. Which is a shame as what is being shown to the audience is important and affects millions of lives. Let me clarify what I mean.
Pray The Devil Back To Hell is the story of the women of Liberia (Chrisitians and Muslims) that joined together to create peace in their war-torn land. This was not political, or religious. It was exactly what Dr. Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi did. And it worked. In fact it is being used as a template (for those women that have seen the film) to bring peace to other regions of the world.
Playground is another documentary based in solid fact. It covers the child sex trade from overseas to the U.S. and back again. It details how over 300,000 U.S. children, and perhaps countless others in the world are in danger from this growin issue. It is a call for attention to a subject that the U.S. media is either to squeamish or uncaring to cover.
Both documentaries are movies that need to be seen. They deserve coverage. And they are the only means currently for anyone to know what has happened. Because CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and all the other news media are ignoring the subjects.
But enough of what I think of the subject, here is Abigail Disney in her own words.
Don't forget about the International Day of Peace.
Also, I want to apologize to Abigail for not covering enough of Playground in this interview. I will be following up with her to get the rest of that interview soon.
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