ten new black fliems by and about african-americans will be released this year. including several award contenders from independent and major distributors. one film, based on the real life shooting death of 22-year-old oscar grant at the hands of a bay area transit officer in 2009. just one of the movies getting a lot of buzz right now. are we seeing a renaissance in filmmaking by and about african-americans? or is it just a little too early and maybe too late to celebrate? joining me now to discuss this is tim reid, famed actor, director and producer and co-founder of new millennium studios. an independent film production studio in virginia. beside him is filmmaker i messed it up. i just had done it perfectly before. at that nana reeve. i ve been practicing. she s also the cosby chair of humanities at spellman college. here is comedian, ver tan day
and when the older brother, tamerlan, was tackled by police, that one gun was empty. it was the moment his younger brother tried to make a run for it in a stolen suv. there was a lot of gunfire at that point. that was probably the highest point in gunfire. and really as soon as that as soon as the suv turned around in the street, it was just accelerated gunfire. all coming from the officers. you grabbed your iphone and yeah, i grabbed my phone, and just immediately jumped on to the bed and started taking pictures. reporter: andrew kitzenberg took these dramatic pictures and saw that escape. so did an eyewitness, named jane dyson from a third floor window. at that moment, she told the boston globe and said it looked like someone fell to the grouped and was hit by gunfire. that would have been a transit officer who was standing right here. at the time he was shot,
accelerated gunfire. all coming from the officers. you grabbed your iphone and yeah, i grabbed my phone, and just immediately jumped on to the bed and started taking pictures. reporter: andrew kitzenberg crouched in his second floor window and taking these dramatic pictures and saw that escape. so did an eyewitness, named jane dyson from a third floor window. at that moment, she told the boston globe and said it looked like an individual had fell to the ground and was hit by gunfire. that would have been a transit officer who was standing right here. at the time he was shot, tamerlan tsarnaev was lying on the street. his brother, dzhokhar, was driving away. only the police were firing. officially, state police tell us the matter remains under investigation. law enforcement sources tell cnn, officer richard donahue was
first reports was that a watertown police officer was down, didn t know if i was off duty. we saw each other, just that moment of recognition in the eyes, and officer done hue in the air, tossed in the ambulance with my brother and jimmy, and then a paramedic got in the back, they started to work on him. a transit officer, who is going to help drive to the hospital. the team that drove this ambulance there is now in the back trying to save the life, so the regular driver is back there trying to save officer donahue s life. they worked to save him, i hopped in the driver s seat, tear off out of there, try to get to the hospital as fast as possible. you had never driven one of these before? now, that s what i take out of all of this, you know, this i call for help, we re in a small
thank god you re not on the ground, thought maybe i might have been. he heard the radio traffic there was an officer down, was worried it could be his brother, tim. first reports was that a watertown police officer was down, didn t know if i was off duty. we saw each other, just that moment of recognition in the eyes, and officer done hue in the air, tossed in the ambulance with my brother and jimmy, and then a paramedic got in the back, they started to work on him. a transit officer, who is going to help drive to the hospital. the team that drove this ambulance there is now in the back trying to save the life, so the regular driver is back there trying to save officer donahue s life. they worked to save him, i hopped in the driver s seat, tear off out of there, try to get to the hospital as fast as possible. you had never driven one of these before?