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...Kathy Eldon pointed directly to the parallels between their experience of mourning and the experience of the United States. “Angry negative energy can eat you alive,” she said. “What I think is exciting in America, though, is that we, as a global tribe, can use those feelings to transform this world. I don’t mean we don’t want justice, but this is such a wake-up call. Let us not have what happened be in vain. We have to use the inspiration of this film...
...film, Amy Eldon says that this is her way of dealing with her grief, which had left her with large questions as to Dan Eldon’s motivation and what his death meant in the larger scheme of things. The documentary started off as a paper for one of Amy Eldon’s college classes. She wrote a treatment for a film that would explore what led her brother to feel so passionate about work under horrible and extremely dangerous conditions. “It got a B+,” she noted wryly. The actual film...
Dying to Tell the Story casts Amy and Kathy Eldon as modern-day Cassandras. The film shows the enormity of the task of pushing horrific events past public apathy and into a public consciousness. Journalists tried in vain to raise concern about Afghanistan and the Taliban. “I’ve gone back to Afghanistan every year, but have been totally unsuccessful in achieving a result,” said Mavroleon in a chillingly portentous segment of the film...
...presentation, Amy Eldon said that the “silver lining to Sept. 11” is that “we can no longer afford to be so introspective as a nation.” She commented that, before these events, Americans tended to “care much less about what was happening in Uzbekistan than about the latest dieting plan. But people are risking their lives on a daily basis to bring us the news, the least we can do is read...
...Kathy Eldon...