Snippets: recovered from the editing room floor
Snippets is our new podcast designed to address this problem: When we make a film, we perform hours of interviews with some of the most important minds in the world. But we only use minutes, or even seconds, of those interviews! Snippets is our way of bringing you in on the adventure by showing extended portions of interviews otherwise lost "to the cutting room floor."
Scott Horton is a law professor at Columbia University Law School in New York. He is also a writer and journalist for Harper's Magazine. This interview was performed in March 2009, just after President Obama issued an executive order banning torture.
In March 2010, Horton authored a groundbreaking article in Harper's laying out the case that three prisoners at Guantanamo did not commit suicide, as official reports had shown, but were instead either murdered or were victims of a botched interrogation.
Sayyid Syeed is the Executive Director of the Islamic Society of North America, one of the largest organizations of Muslims in the United States. He is an active advocate of peaceful relationships between Muslims, Christians, and Jews.
In this episode, Dr. Syeed addresses the central concerns of American Muslims as they seek to integrate fully into American life.
Tyler Wigg-Stevenson (Part 2) is the director of the "Two Futures Project," a movement of American Christians for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. From the Two Futures web site: "We believe that we face two futures and one choice: a world without nuclear weapons or a world ruined by them. We support the multilateral, global, irreversible, and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons, as a biblically-grounded mandate and as a contemporary security imperative."
In this podcast, Tyler explains the tremendous danger of nuclear terrorism, and how it's possible to use this danger to rid the whole world of nuclear weapons.
Dr. Dagmar Herzog is the author of "Sex After Fascism" and "Sex in Crisis." She teaches at the Graduate School of CUNY and, in this podcast, explains that the usual explanations of the rise of Nazism don't tell the whole story.
Tyler Wigg-Stevenson is the director of the "Two Futures Project," a movement of American Christians for the abolition of all nuclear weapons. From the Two Futures web site: "We believe that we face two futures and one choice: a world without nuclear weapons or a world ruined by them. We support the multilateral, global, irreversible, and verifiable elimination of nuclear weapons, as a biblically-grounded mandate and as a contemporary security imperative."
In this podcast, Tyler describes the experience of his conversion to Evangelical Christianity, and how this conversion thrust him into the unconventional (to some) work he now pursues.
Gita Gutierrez is an attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights. In 2004, she was one of the first Habeas attorneys to enter the detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay. In this podcast she describes in detail the condition of Mohammed Al-Qatahni, the supposed "20th Hijacker" of 9/11.
Columbia University professor Randall Balmer is an expert on the history of religion in America. He is also a filmmaker, Pulitzer Prize winner, and Episcopal priest. In this interview, filmed for our 2007 production "Renewal or Ruin?", Randall explains the takeover of the Southern Baptist Church by fundamentalists and its effect on the separation of church and state.
Susannah Heschel unravels the history of "The Institute For the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Church Life," active during the latter years of the Nazi era. Dr. Heschel is one of America's greatest scholars and brings her formidable expertise to the the subject of her latest book on "The Aryan Jesus."
Michael Peppard delivers a devastating look at how religious abuse is used to torture prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Learn how detainees are made to self-torture by prison guards using copies of the Quran.