Comments on: Cease and desist letter sent to “Robb-ed” Documentary Director Charlie Minn https://uvaldehesperian.com/cease-and-desist-letter-sent-to-robb-ed-documentary-director-charlie-minn/ Uvalde's Free News Source Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:22:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: admin https://uvaldehesperian.com/cease-and-desist-letter-sent-to-robb-ed-documentary-director-charlie-minn/#comment-20 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 19:22:53 +0000 https://uvaldehesperian.com/?p=3603#comment-20 In reply to Jean dodge.

Thank you for pointing the error out. I fixed it

]]> By: Jean Dodge https://uvaldehesperian.com/cease-and-desist-letter-sent-to-robb-ed-documentary-director-charlie-minn/#comment-19 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:32:28 +0000 https://uvaldehesperian.com/?p=3603#comment-19 Charlie Minn may think he means well but he is also giving independent film makers a bad name. Community engagement and peer review cannot be neglected by producers with integrity and his long track record of controversy should have raised many red flags for parents. At the same time I don’t fault anyone who signed a release and may now regret it. Authorities in high places at ISD, city, county, state and federal levels have conspired to stonewall, stall, obfuscate and slant the truth and transparency Uvalde so desperately lacks, and eyewitnesses/ survivors deserve a voice. These elected and appointed authorizes alone created the desperation that drove survivor parents to trust and rely on a fringe – but somewhat intriguing figure such as Minn, who, to his slight credit does at least remain consistent in his methodology and style of “advocacy” for victims. I’m not a fan, nor will I attend his exhibition. I won’t call it a documentary because no one has seen it yet. It’s an event, and probably an exploitative one. But neither do I believe in prior censorship. So I strongly recommend the best course from here is to ignore him and learn the lesson of being more aware of what you sign and where you allow your kids to goin general. In the most horrific manner possible the parents of Texas and of the USA learned that the police will not endanger themselves in order to protect our children. Next time a film maker or a journalist wants to film you or your kids, make sure they are supported and peer-vetted by the film or journalism community. The documentary film makers I’ve worked with and supported often embed themselves into a community for over a year before recording a single interview, that’s almost standard practice for the best ones. This will all pass, From studying his history, almost no one distributes his films after he books them for a week of screenings in the locales where he’s generally no longer welcome. He needs to move on and so does Uvalde.

]]> By: Jean dodge https://uvaldehesperian.com/cease-and-desist-letter-sent-to-robb-ed-documentary-director-charlie-minn/#comment-18 Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:14:04 +0000 https://uvaldehesperian.com/?p=3603#comment-18 (Feb 3rd not Jan 3rd, fix typo in story please.).

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