Today Leslie has a fascinating conversation with Documentary Filmmaker Cevin Soling about what it's like to investigate ancient tribes that still exist. How do you put together a compelling film when you have no idea what you will find? Do you go in with a planned story or agenda? Cevin addresses this and much more in this informative episode of Best in Fest.

More About Cevin

Cevin Soling, president of Spectacle Films and Xemu Records, works as
writer, director, producer, artist, and academic. 

Soling directed and produced, THE WAR ON KIDS, winner of the best educational documentary award at the New York Independent Film and Video
Festival. The film demonstrates how American public schools have become
modeled after prisons in response to fear and a burgeoning intolerance of youth.
The film ran at the Quad Cinema in New York City and screened at Harvard
University as well as other major universities. It has received accolades from
The New York Times, Variety, and The Huffington Post. Soling was a guest
on numerous radio shows including The Lionel Show on Air America, The
Joey Reynolds Show on WOR, and The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC. In
addition, the film was featured on national television along with an interview on
The Dr. Nancy Show on MSNBC, as well as on RT Television, and Soling was
the featured guest on The Colbert Report. The film has been broadcast
internationally on The Sundance Channel and aired domestically on The
Documentary Channel.

Soling also produced and directed IKLAND, a film about a tribe in Northern
Uganda that had been described as the most despicable people on the planet by
the anthropologist who studied them over forty years ago. IKLAND won the
award for Best Documentary content at the Boston International Film Festival
and was released theatrically in June of 2012 where it received enthusiastic
reviews from The New York Times, Discovery Magazine, and from several
syndicated critics.

Soling wrote, directed, and produced the feature film, THE WAR ON THE WAR
ON DRUGS, winner of the best experimental feature film award at the New York
Independent Film and Video Festival, the Stoney Award for best documentary
from High Times, as well as the “Clear Creek” Honorable Mention Award at the
Winslow International Film Festival.

The New York Times proclaimed in a rave review that THE WAR ON THE WAR
ON DRUGS "...a lively and well-executed satire that sweetens its occasional
truths with rebellious humor..." The film was acquired for DVD distribution
worldwide through Time Warner by The Disinformation Company.