About a month ago, a friend of mine, Michael Blatter had asked me to film something for him. When I asked what, I had no idea that it would be a mini doc on a demonstration that was to take place in honor of a classmate, sixteen year old Paula Bohovesky, that had been raped and murdered over 30 years ago.
I wondered, "Why so many years later are they doing it now." It was then told to me that the young girls killers were about to be up for parole.
Michael introduced to me Dari J. Knight, who was heading the whole demonstration. The experience was an once in a life time thing. When I got to the scene the day of, the story of sixteen year old Paula really hit me. I think when I had interviewed the young girl's mother, Lois, her words are what really stuck. Even my crew said they were shaken up as well as all the people who told their sides of the story.
But in the end the community was moved by the piece that we had created, as was I by them.
I think it was Lois and her son Peter who really touched me with their strength to go through this in honor of Paula. It hit me so much, that I am thinking about doing a full documentary on them maybe some day. But for now look at the first finished piece below.
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It truly was a once in a lifetime experience -- and I'm so glad that you were there to capture it, and share it with this group of people. Thank you, Kyle, for preserving something very, very special.
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