They say you can’t go home again. But don’t tell that to Oscar winner John Ridley.
The writer-director and co-host of Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast returned to his hometown for the 18th annual Milwaukee Film Festival. While there, he recorded interviews for the pod with makers of two documentaries in the lineup: All of the Above and Newport & The Great Folk Dream.
“Students from different faith backgrounds come together for an epic World Religions class in a public Illinois high school,” notes a description of All of the Above. “Through the work of a challenging yet compassionate teacher, the community as a whole is asked to confront preconceived notions of faith and belonging — religious literacy, as he terms it.”
As a teenager, director Allison Walsh took that class at Mount Prospect High School in a suburb of Chicago. Walsh and producer/co-writer Lily Qi join Ridley for
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