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Hello
and welcome to The Rob Burgess Show. I am, of course, your host, Rob
Burgess.
On
this, our 25th episode, our guest is Marc Levin.
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"Dark
Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion” by
Gary Webb; “The Killing Game: Selected Writings by the Author of
Dark Alliance” also by Gary Webb and edited by his son, Eric Webb;
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Marc
Levin is an award winning independent filmmaker who brings narrative
and verite techniques together in his feature films, television
series and documentaries. Among the many honors for his work, he has
won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, the Camera
D'Or at Camera D'Or, three National Emmys and four duPont-Columbia
Awards. He is the director of such feature films such as “Slam,”
Whiteboyz” and “Brooklyn Babylon,” and documentary films such
as “CIA: America's Secret Warriors,” “Protocols of Zion” and,
most recently, “Class Divide.” He also directed the television
series “Brick City” and “Chicagoland,” an episode of “The
Blues,” titled “Godfathers and Sons”; and three episodes of
“Law and Order.”
I first interviewed Marc, and the subject of his documentary, “Freeway: Crack in the System,” “Freeway” Ricky Ross, last year. The film
premiered on Al Jazeera America and I was lucky enough to screen the
film prior to its release. Here's the movie's trailer:
I first became aware of the story of “Freeway” Ricky Ross in 2008
when it was revealed that not only was the rapper calling himself
Rick Ross was actually named William Roberts, but Roberts had also
been a correctional officer in Florida. I then went on to read the
late Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb's seminal series,
“Dark Alliance,” in which he connected the dots between Ross, who
was being supplied with cocaine by Nicaraguans raising money for the
CIA-backed Contras through drug sales. (Webb's story was also told
the Jeremy Renner-starring dramatic film “Kill the Messenger,”
based on the book of the same name.)
July
21, Levin's film, “Freeway: Crack in the System,” was nominated
for an Emmy award in the Outstanding Investigative Journalism: Long Form category. The winners will be announced during the awards
ceremony Sept. 21 in New York City.
And
now, on to the show.
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