00:09One of the things I've always loved about Michaud was that independent spirit, that
00:13thing of not letting anything stop him from being his artistic self.
00:21He gets a little small crew and drives out to Gregory, South Dakota to shoot a movie.
00:31They've got the cameras in the back seat, and you've got to remember too, there's no film
00:34school.
00:35No one can teach you how to do this.
00:39I mean, you've got to figure this out pretty much on your own.
00:53And I think all of that comes from that experience in South Dakota.
00:58You've got to go out in the middle of nowhere, you've got to plant your seed, you've got
01:05to grow the crop, and then you've got to harvest it, and then you've got to take it to market.
01:10I mean, he does all of that with film.
01:37Michaud's like that guy who's walking down the street and he's playing the drum, playing
01:42the horns, playing the keyboard, and he's doing it.
01:49It was sort of crowd filmmaking that the people that are around you become a part of your
01:57practice, a part of the process.
01:58And that's a very kind of storied practice in black filmmaking that you find people around
02:05you to fund your film, to make your film, to help you distribute, to travel with you.
02:12I mean, so it is, again, a community-based model.
02:16That's why he's the patron saint of black filmmakers, because he's like the ultimate independent
02:22filmmaker.
02:23So it's your patron saint and actually tricks the young man.
02:23Take care.
02:23Grazie a tutti.
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