but to be honest, it was, that idea came from the bbc. the bbc community programme unit. jeremy gibson was doing a series that was very successful in the uk called video diaries. and people would be given a video camera and tell their story. and when the la riots happened, and because they had happened because of this tape, this rodney king tape, randy and i thought, well, what if we did a kind of mass video diary exercise, where we gave cameras to lots of different people in la to tell their stories? so it really was an idea that began with it. and that actually run on the bbc. it was called la stories. la stories, yes. you know, you left the uk for america, as you mentioned, and you went to film school in america, new york. i did an interview with donna langley, who s the chairman of universal pictures, last year, and she was saying she very much felt at about the same age as you, i think that she needed to leave britain to make a success of herself and to,
the way you could tell stories, or the stories that were getting on tv? it was. but to be honest, it was, that idea came from the bbc. the bbc community programme unit. jeremy gibson was doing a series that was very successful in the uk called video diaries. and people would be given a video camera and tell their story. and when the la riots happened, and because they had happened because of this tape, this rodney king tape, randy and i thought, well, what if we did a kind of mass video diary exercise, where we gave cameras to lots of different people in la to tell their stories? so it really was an idea that began with it. and that actually run on the bbc. it was called la stories. la stories, yes. you know, you left the uk for america, as you mentioned, and you went to film school in america, new york. i did an interview with donna langley, who s the chairman of universal pictures, last year, and she was saying she very much
lajust exploded in riots. and for, like, several days, it was like a huge reality show. it was like the world had gone sort of television. and you had the same thing with oj, when he fled down the freeway from, well, pursued by cameras and helicopters and everything. that was another kind of weirdly. ..mm, life as a reality show, i suppose. and after rodney king s beating, you gave out cameras to people in south central la. was that transforming the way, that technology was transforming the way you could tell stories, or the stories that were getting on tv? it was. but to be honest, it was, that idea came from the bbc. the bbc community programme unit. jeremy gibson was doing a series that was very successful in the uk called video diaries. and people would be given a video camera and tell their story. and when the la riots happened, and because they had happened because of this tape,
he really feels it was the tabloids who killed his mother. and he has a certain legitimate grievance. this was a tirade against the britt media these first two episodes. the other thing i thought was discordened was some of the video diaries, they were doing them in march of 2020, which suggests they were already planning all this. i know you re there in london. there s zero sympathy for harry and meghan. is there any sort of because of what happened with that royal aid who had to step down after asking repeatedly a black british woman where she came from, is there any retlex in the uk about whether actually did hearth are you and meghan get unfair treatment because of her race? reporter: yeah, i had to watch all three episodes.
the video diaries of a 16-year- old. she could be any teenage girl anywhere in the world goofing around, dancing, singing, just having fun, but this isn t anywhere in the world. this is the islamic republic of iran where life s expressions are anything but free. [ speaking non-english ] reporter: three months after that video serena joined the thousands of iranian women and girls rising up for their liberties demanding their rights. serena was forever silenced on september 23rd. amnesty international says based on information it has, security forces beat her, striking her on the head with batons severely beating her to death. iranian judicial authorities denied she was killed. they say sarena died by suicide jumping from the roof of her