Summary: DownloadGet it on iTunes {pb_mediael audio_mp3=[http://d343ypnmzkqpnf.cloudfront.net/filmwax/1309-filmwax.mp3] } In this first 2013 Sundance Edition of Filmwax Radio, host Kristin McCracken interviews filmmakers Lana Wilson & Martha Shane about their new documentary, AFTER TILLER, which explores the controversial topic of late term abortion. This is the first of several dispatches from Park City. After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, four physicians—Dr. LeRoy Carhart, Dr. Warren Hern, Dr. Shelley Sella, and Dr. Susan Robinson—have become the new number-one targets of the anti-abortion movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to keep doing work that they believe is vitally important. With unprecedented access into the lives of these doctors and the patients who seek their help, AFTER TILLER will paint a vivid portrait of these four unforgettable men and women and the battles they fight every day in the name of choice. Martha Shane (co-director/co-producer) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. From 2006 to 2008, she co-directed, produced and co-edited the feature documentary BI THE WAY, which had its premiere at the SXSW film festival in 2008 and debuted on MTV’s LOGO channel in summer 2009. Subsequently, Shane worked as a freelance editor, producer and cinematographer for projects ranging from a short documentary about a community health center in post-Katrina New Orleans to an experimental film about the Japanese writer Osamu Dazai. After Tiller is her second feature documentary. Shane is currently finishing Make the People Happy, a short documentary that follows the Xylopholks, New York’s only animal-costumed, xylophone-playing, subway-busking ragtime band on a whirlwind tour of India. She is also in production on THE MYSTERY OF MARIE JOCELYN, a suspense-filled feature documentary that unravels the many mysteries surrounding alleged con artist and former film festival director Marie Castaldo. Shane graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005 with a BA in Film Studies. Lana Wilson (co-director/co-producer) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. AFTER TILLER is her feature documentary debut. Wilson was previously the Film and Dance Curator for Performa, the New York biennial of new visual art performance, where she has curated and produced performances including Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin’s TALES FROM THE GIMLI HOSPITAL: Reframed and French choreographer Boris Charmatz’s Musée de la danse: expo zero. She has also organized several film retrospectives, including Not Funny: Stand-Up Comedy and Visual Art, The Polyexpressive Symphony: Futurism on Film, and Dance After Choreography. Her film programs have been presented by the Jerusalem International Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Tanzquartier Wien (Vienna), among other venues. She recently edited the book Performa 09: Back to Futurism (2011), and is currently developing several other documentary projects. Wilson holds a BA in Film Studies and Dance from Wesleyan University. HOST: After abandoning a career in higher education, Kristin McCracken realized that writing about movies all day long was way more fun. Until recently, she was the Vice President of Digital Media at TribecaFilm.com. She now writes about film and consults with filmmakers about social media. Her most recent book is entitled 101 Things to Do Before You Turn 40.
