Today, Leonard talks with Alexandria Bombach and Elizabeth Schaefer Brown, the filmmakers of the documentary “On Her Shoulders.”
“On Her Shoulders” is Alexandria Bombach’s deeply moving portrait of Yazidi genocide survivor-turned-global advocate Nadia Murad. Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Documentary Directing Award and the prize for Best Documentary at the recent Camden Film Festival, the film focuses on Nadia’s life as the 23-year-old participates in a dizzying display of diplomacy—from giving testimony before the U.N. to visiting refugee camps to soul-bearing media interviews and one-on-one meetings with top government officials.
Talking with Leonard today is Eileen Rivers, author of Beyond The Call, about three brave soldiers and her experience documenting them. Eileen Rivers is...
On today’s Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard has a conversation with Edwin Frank, founder of New York Review Books Back In 1999, Edwin Frank...
On today’s show, Leonard interviews Shraysi Tandon, Director of Invisible Hands and Margaret Wurth from Human Rights Watch. Produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Charles Ferguson,...