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Each year, RadioWest sits down for in-depth conversations with filmmakers and producers during the Sundance Film Festival. Just like the festival, the RadioWest team has eclectic taste. We hope you enjoy the diversity of topics as much as we do.

Sundance 2018: Bisbee '17

Courtesy Sundance Institute

Friday, we wrap up our coverage of the Sundance Film Festival with a compelling and original documentary. Filmmaker Robert Greene tells the story of modern-day Bisbee, Arizona, and a century-old event that haunts it.

RadioWest divider.

In July 1917, striking miners in Bisbee, Arizona, were rounded up at gunpoint, loaded into cattle cars, and left in the desert to die. It was called the Bisbee Deportation, and it split the community down political, class, and racial lines. So, the town tried to forget it. It’s a story though that rattled filmmaker Robert Greene, who has created a film that layers the ghosts of the past with a town grappling with the legacy. Friday, we wrap up our Sundance coverage with Greene and BISBEE ’17.

Robert Greene is a filmmaker and writer. His feature documentary Kate Plays Christine earned him a special jury prize at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival.  You can learn more about Bisbee '17 on Facebook or at Sundance.org

Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER News since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of KUER's RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show on KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City. He has gained a reputation for his thoughtful style. He has interviewed everyone from Isabel Allende to the Dalai Lama, and from Madeleine Albright to Desmond Tutu. His interview skills landed him a spot as a guest host of the national NPR program, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting and for his work with RadioWest and KUED's Utah NOW from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, the Public Radio News Directors Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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