Q: Do you have any interesting and/or amusing behind-the-scenes stories about the making of this particular work?
A: I came to New York to shoot the documentary in the winter of 1994. Only now, I have found a U.S. channel interested in the final piece, by the way. As you may remember, this particular winter was pretty cold, with temperatures often well below zero centrigrade and heaps of persistent snow. My (New York-based and Afro-American) cameraman Bobby Shepard, with whom I worked together very well, made sure that we and our entire crew where present on location despite all atrocious weather conditions. One particular day, we were supposed to shoot in the homeless shelter at Wards Island, under the supervision of a bureaucrat of the Mayor's office. The city was reluctant to let us make the film, its reputation being at stake.
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