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...featured who were killed in action after the film’s completion, but its main protagonist is Dan Eldon, who was stoned to death by a violent Somali mob in 1992. He was 22. The portrait is wrenchingly intimate—the film’s host is Eldon??s sister, Amy Eldon, and its producer is his mother, Kathy Eldon, who is also an international journalist...
...Eldon??s avenging trio (his sister, mother and father, Mike Eldon) held a screening of the film and a discussion about his legacy in light of recent events on Oct. 12 at Fisher College in Boston. The event was part of a Fisher College Honors Colloquium, “In the Extreme: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Grave Human Rights Violations.” The audience was still audibly shaken by the hard-hitting film they had just watched, but Eldon??s family did not wait. They immediately pushed ahead to put the film in the context...
...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...
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