David Craig, Media Professor at USC Annenberg Take a cursory glance through social media and you’ll find myriad filmmakers, educators and enthusiasts doing whatever they can to feed their creative needs during our shared quarantine. Some are working with colleagues remotely (did you catch Saturday Night Live at Home or A Late Show with Stephen Colbert ?). Others are taking time to learn a new skill, enter a few film festivals or knock out the latest draft of a screenplay, novel or, in the case of today’s interview, the non-fiction tale of the battle to make The Day After - and how that TV movie changed history. Over the next couple weeks (or longer?), we’re checking in with filmmakers big and small to find out how they’re doing - and what movies are on their stay-at-home must-watch list. Know a filmmaker who we should spotlight? Email us at midwestmovies@gmail.com . Today we’re talking to David Craig , a Media Professor at USC Annenberg, who writes academic books abou...
Championing films made in and filmmakers from the Midwest
