Jul 20, 2020
On this week's show, we meet Mark Bosco, S.J. and Elizabeth
Coffman, the filmmakers behind the new documentary "Flannery" coming soon to virtual
cinemas nationwide.
About the Filmmakers:
Elizabeth Coffman has produced and
directed films about communities in crisis from Louisiana to
Bosnia. Many of her films include or are about writers, such as
Flannery, One More Mile with writer Aleksandar Hemon, Veins in the
Gulf with Martha Serpas and Souls and Sonnets with Rita Dove. She
works with Ted Hardin at Long Distance Productions.
Mark Bosco, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and
a professor. He is an authority on the works of Flannery O'Connor
and Graham Greene. Mark’s most recent book is Graham
Greene’s Catholic Imagination, published by Oxford University
Press. He is the Vice President for Mission and Ministry at
Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Flannery is his first
film.
About Flannery:
Winner of the first-ever Library of
Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film, Flannery is the lyrical,
intimate exploration of the life and work of author Flannery
O’Connor, whose distinctive Southern Gothic style influenced a
generation of artists and activists. With her family home at
Andalusia (the Georgia farm where she grew up and later wrote her
best-known work) as a backdrop, a picture of the woman behind her
sharply aware, starkly redemptive style comes into focus. Including
conversations with those who knew her and those inspired by her
(Mary Karr, Tommy Lee Jones, Lucinda Williams, Hilton Als and
more), Flannery employs never-before-seen archival footage, newly
discovered personal letters and her own published words (read by
Mary Steenburgen) alongside original animations and music to
examine the life and legacy of an American literary icon.
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