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Bio: Frances Reid has been producing, directing, and shooting documentary films for over 30 years. Her last production was Skin Deep, a film exploring race relations on college campuses that was broadcast on PBS. In 1994, she received an Academy Award nomination for her documentary short, Straight From the Heart. As a cinematographer, she has lensed The Times of Harvey Milk, Visions of the Spirit, The Ride to Wounded Knee, Reno's Kids, and scores of other award-winning works. Frances was awarded the 1998 James D. Phelan Art Award in Video, and in January, she received the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival for Long Night's Journey Into Day.
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remarkable documentary about the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC), as they attempted to re-establish justice, and
heal gaping wounds in the social fabric of a country racially divided
by apartheid. The primary focus of the hearings was to bear witness
to the truth-to allow perpetrators and victims to speak freely about
the horrors each endured. A white special-forces officer, deeply
remorseful for the crimes he committed, struggles to reach peace
with the embittered wife of a black activist he killed 14-years
before. A group of mothers, after enduring years of misinformation
and denials by authorities, learns the truth about how their sons
were set-up, betrayed, and killed in a vicious police conspiracy.
A young black activist 
comes
to recognize the anguish he caused killing a white American student
during a mob riot, while her parents see beyond their pain to embrace
a new, multi-racial South Africa. Shot over the course of the two-and-a-half
year process, this documentary offers insight into an ambitious,
bitter, and difficult process that was both cathartic and painful.