For more than 30 years, Al Milgrom ran the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, putting directors and their artistic visions in the spotlight.
But this weekend Milgrom, who stepped down as director in 2010 will participate in the festival in a different capacity as a filmmaker.
Four and a half decades after taking his camera into the Minneapolis streets, he has completed his long-awaited documentary The Dinkytown Uprising.
The film documents a student protest in April 1970, when the University of Minnesota campus was tense over President Richard Nixon s escalation of the Vietnam War.
Milgrom confesses people who know him are surprised when he tells them he has finished the project sometimes to the point of astonishment.