As a post-Baby Boomer, Sam Greene was barely alive when most of the events discussed in his documentary, THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, occurred. Perhaps because he was able to come to the project without the emotions that colored that era that resulted in the balanced portrait he and partner Bill Siegel have created of those troubled times of the 1960s and the anti-war movement.
When I spoke with Greene on July 18, 2003, the film had already garnered several awards on the festival circuit, including the Golden Gate Award for best documentary feature at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Our conversation ranged from the effect 9/11 had on his attitude while putting the film together, the difficulties of finding funds for controversial subjects, and what he learned while making the film about the moral ambiguity that can arise from wanting to do the right thing.
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