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Founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a big conference on nonfiction writing a...

1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about the field. This kind of work is not part of mass culture shall we say but its a Distinct Community of people who really care about it and are devoted to it and help and support each other and it was very important to tony to be part of that community he put on with me as his sort of deputy a...

Welcome everybody. Were here for the J Anthony Lucas prize pride project ceremony will be honoring excellence in Nonfiction Book writing with four awards. Im nick lemon. Im x dean now faculty member here at columbia journalism school, and im especially happy to be here because i was back in 1997. I guess 25 years ago part of the founding crew that set up this this program. Tony lucas was a wonderful nonfiction writer and reporter who was not only great at what he did, but also cared a lot about ...

Start any trouble. Just thank your agent and your stylist and leave the stage. And the other voice is going, no, no, you have a responsibility. Theres a war going on. You must Say Something. Ive invited my fellow documentary nominees on the stage, because we like nonfiction. And we live in fictitious times. We live in the time where we have fictitious Election Results that elects a fictitious president. [ boos ] we live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons. Whet...

The few surviving images by robert kappa, to bring the battle to life. >> as filmmakers, we took every inch of that beach. and it took us 25 days of shooting to capture 25 minutes of those landings. >> follow me. >> it was very, very loud. there was a lot of explosives. theyre planting pyrotechnics on your body or in the ground. this is a lot of places to get hurt. >> reporter: every agonizing moment was based on the recollections of veterans who were there. >> after the first explosion took my ...

Make nonfiction movies. well do things we never did, we will say things we never said, but outside, were going to be as authentic as possible. >> we have been in normandy together. is there a danger well lose sights of the real meaning? >> it will be some mythological place. it becomes a time of gods and heroes. if we forget it was a bunch of individuals and they had names like ernie and buck and robert, thats when were bad citizens of the world, i think. >> that was tom brokaw with steven spiel...

The photo journalist robert kappa. he landed with the first wave at 6:30 the morning on omaha beach and he took hundreds of photographs. only 10 or 11 shots survived. those still photographs said more to me about what it was like to land on those beaches than anything i had ever seen. so i said, i want the whole landing to look like these nine photographs. [ gunfire ] >> it wasnt like a series of shot lists. i dont think steven did story boards on them. that was a brand of documentary film makin...

>> i believe the status of young people who come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and should be solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country. i think the action that the president took today more difficult to reach that long-term solution. >> well, thats g.o.p. candidate mitt romney obviously slamming the president after the president announced that his administration will stop deporting younger undocument...