How does a documentary change when the director becomes the subject? Filmmaker explored this in her directorial debut 鈥�.鈥� The documentary features interviews with eight men who were raised by single mothers and includes McWilliams鈥� own story.
She weaves in home video footage and interviews with her son Chase, whom she is raising as a single mother. McWilliams started working in documentary film after she produced Spike Lee鈥檚 documentary 鈥�.鈥�
Host Frank Stasio talks to McWilliams about how she got into documentary film and what it was like to make a film that features her own personal story. McWilliams is a at the at Duke University. She will speak at the Center for Documentary Studies in Durham on Wednesday, Nov. 14. The reception starts at 5 p.m. and her talk 鈥� begins at 6 p.m.
