NaFF09 – The Other Side of the Lens
Reed Cowan, Paolo Mugnaini
On the evening of April 23, 2006, Emmy Award winning TV anchor and news reporter Reed Cowan was on call for his Salt Lake City employer. He was paged to the scene of the accidental hanging death of a child. Arriving on the scene, Cowan discovered that every parent’s nightmare ? the loss of a child ? was his own. The reporter became the news. The Other Side of the Lens is Reed Cowan’s first film and it follows Cowan and his journey of self-examination, liberation, and activism that would assist him through his grief. The juxtaposition of the necessity for personal healing the sensationalism of present-day television news becomes jarring when the person leading us on this journey has truly seen both sides. On his journey, Cowan meets the Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Kenyan grandmother of Barack Obama, and others whose worldviews remind us that from great tragedy comes great hope.
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