Director: Connie Field Producers: Connie Field, Gregory
Scharpen
Description: The
Whistleblower of My Lai is
a unique fusion of opera and documentary that blends the emotional
crystallization of a dramatized human story with the concreteness of
real life. It tells a story that captures both the best and worst of
humanity through the examination of one incident in one man’s life:
army helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson and his discovery and exposure of
the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
Biography: Connie Field is an
Academy Award nominated, and Emmy Award winning director. Before
getting involved in film she worked as an organizer in many social
and human rights organizations where she established her commitment
to progressive social change which she has carried into her film
career. Some of her previous work includes Al Helm: Martin Luther
King in Palestine, about an African American gospel choir touring
Palestine in a Palestinian play about Martin Luther King Jr; the
seven-part series Have You Heard From Johannesburg, on the
global movement that ended Apartheid in South Africa, Freedom on
My Mind a history of the civil rights movement in Mississippi;
the feminist classic The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter and ¡Salud! on Cuba's role in the struggle for global health
equity. She has won numerous awards including Academy Award
nominations, the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, a primetime Emmy Award,
British Academy Award Nominee.
Gregory
Scharpen was the series editor for Clarity Films' Emmy-winning series Have
You Heard From Johannesburg,
and edited Al
Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine, The
Whistleblower of My Lai and Oliver Tambo for
them. He has also edited music videos for Project Soundwave, Zoe
Boekbinder, Kronos Quartet, and Vân Ánh Võ. Under the name Thomas
Carnacki he records and performs what is occasionally referred to as
"experimental music", having released several lps, cds, and
ep under that monicker. Over the course of over a decade of activity,
Carnacki (or Scharpen) has worked with luminaries such as Carla
Bozulich, Nurse With Wound, irr. app. (ext.), and Carla Kihlstedt.
