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Intersection - The True/False Podcast, Building Character with Lou Pepe and Keith Fulton

This week on Intersection, we listen to the first episode of the new True/False Podcast presented by KBIA. Host Allison Coffelt talks with directors Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe about their film The Bad Kids and the process of developing character in nonfiction film.

 

 

Listen to the full show here:

The Bad Kids follows three students and the principal of Black Rock Continuation High School. Black Rock is an alternative high school giving students their last chance at graduation and a diploma. The film tells the story of students facing the struggles and obstacles that make it difficult for them to reach their goal of graduation.

Fulton and Pepe talked with Coffelt about the process of deciding which storylines to feature in the film as they worked to strike a balance between sharing a wide range of stories and experiences and taking an intimate look a few students' lives.

Listen to a selection here:

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  Intersection's producer is Claire Banderas.

Sara Shahriari was the assistant news director at KBIA-FM, and she holds a master's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism. Sara hosted and was executive producer of the PRNDI award-winning weekly public affairs talk show Intersection. She also worked with many of KBIA’s talented student reporters and teaches an advanced radio reporting lab. She previously worked as a freelance journalist in Bolivia for six years, where she contributed print, radio and multimedia stories to outlets including Al Jazeera America, Bloomberg News, the Guardian, the Christian Science Monitor, Deutsche Welle and Indian Country Today. Sara’s work has focused on mental health, civic issues, women’s and children’s rights, policies affecting indigenous peoples and their lands and the environment. While earning her MA at the Missouri School of Journalism, Sara produced the weekly Spanish-language radio show Radio Adelante. Her work with the KBIA team has been recognized with awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and PRNDI, among others, and she is a two-time recipient of funding from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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