A NECESSARY DEATH World Cinema

The difficulties facing today’s independent filmmakers ore immense. In addition to securing financing, mentorship and other support, these artists also need a subject or story worth their time and effort With exploitation and sensationalism ever more reworded, how can young artists make a name for themselves? It is in this context that a group of young filmmakers hove on incendiary idea: What about filming a person’s suicide. Using the popular Web site Craigslist, they send out a call for proposals. “Documentary filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparation to final act” To their surprise, they receive numerous responses, and they choose a perfect subject But the challenges don’t end there. Exploring, with incisive wit, the growing questions of media ethics in the digital video age, this debut feature by AFI grad Daniel Stamm was partially shot in and around the AFI campus, highlighting the intensity of every film student’s rood lo discovery. It is on American independent film that should not be missed.