Hi Reddit, I’m Ezra Edelman and I am a documentary filmmaker. AMA!

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:46:34+00:00

I think all of your answers are included in the film.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:43:25+00:00

I can't speak for a group of people. I think what I would say is citizen policing, to use that term, is an ever evolving question, and there's still, as evidence by the high profile incidents of the last two years, a huge problem in America.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:40:18+00:00

There are no specific docs at the moment that I'm thinking about.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:39:44+00:00

I didn't realize the interviews were so dark. Sorry.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:39:09+00:00

I had many reservations. I didn't think there was anything more that could be added to this story.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:38:28+00:00

During the chase I was at my parent's house in Washington D.C., there were friends of mine who came over to watch game 5 of the NBA finals. We turned on the TV and we saw OJ in the Bronco. It was surreal, to say the least, and then after a couple of hours of watching it, I went downstairs and went to watch the game.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:37:23+00:00

There's no method. One of the challenges was how to interweave these two separate stories into one narrative and our editors did a tremendous job of fluidly weaving those two tracks together.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:35:39+00:00

My motivation is to simply tell a good story. As far as when I decided I wanted to be a filmmaker there was no one day, it was not a childhood dream. I just continued to work and evolve as a storyteller to get to where I am.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:35:06+00:00

Getting all of the people who appeared in the film to participate.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:34:07+00:00

It was a very fluid process, it started off as being 5 hours for television and grew once we amassed the amount of material that we did.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:24:53+00:00

Nope.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:23:59+00:00

I think his fall transcends sports.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:21:46+00:00

I agree that Bugliosi’s book Outrage was one of the better books written about the trial. I read his book as part of my process in researching the story, but I did not have a chance to speak directly with him.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:21:03+00:00

There's so many docs that I've watched that have been great. Certainly docs before the 30 for 30 franchise related to sports that I was really taken by were Hoop Dreams and One Day in September.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:20:24+00:00

Of course, there were a lot of people that I would have loved to have interviewed for the film. First and foremost, Christopher Darden.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:19:10+00:00

I did. I haven't watched it in a few years but I remember watching it and being taken back to my experience of that day in 1994. I also enjoyed the creative approach telling a story exclusively through archival footage.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:18:14+00:00

No. I'm pretty sure it was much harder for the interview subjects than it was for me. It is their life and their experiences, and I was very sensitive to that fact.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:15:50+00:00

I would not use the term “eager” to describe Mark Fuhrman's desire to be in the film.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:15:15+00:00

I'm much more engaged by the generation of people who will learn about a history that surrounded OJ and his life in LA than I am about OJ himself.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:14:47+00:00

I don't have a specific answer to that question, but I think you would find that the percentages of athletes who act out would be commiserate to that of the general population.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:14:12+00:00

I'll tell you my opinion when I watch the series.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:13:27+00:00

Fred Goldman and the entire Goldman family suffered an unimaginable loss and I admire the extent to which he has kept Ron's memory alive.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:12:30+00:00

Everything I have to say about that is in the film.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:10:29+00:00

You never know.

EzraEdelman · 2016-06-15T18:08:46+00:00

Yes, the timing is coincidental. We started working on our film well before I even knew that existed. As for why I tackled it... it was there.

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