'Real Life Is More Tragic Than Fiction,' A Filmmaker Documents NYC Protests
Filmmaker Julian Marshall chronicled New York City's overwhelming response to the killing of George Floyd.
"WE ARE GEORGE FLOYD," by Julian Marshall, is a film that captures New York City's protests in the days after George Floyd was killed by a police officer. It tells the story in two parts.
The first half of the film, shot entirely at night, is narrated with excerpts from a CNN interview with Harvard philosophy Professor Cornel West, who describes how, in his words, "We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment." We see fires and shattered windows and protestors under arrest, their hands zip tied
