One to One with Bill Goodman:
Molly Bingham
aired April 13 and 15, 2007
On this edition of One to One, host Bill Goodman talks with a woman who has been both a maker and a subject of documentary films.
Molly Bingham was in Iraq at the start of the U.S.-led invasion researching and filming Meeting Resistance, which profiles eight insurgents in Baghdad. While working on the film, she was arrested by Saddam Hussein’s secret police and held for seven days in the now notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
Meeting Resistance, which Bingham co-wrote and directed with Steve Connors, had its world premiere at the Full Frame Documentary Festival in April 2007. Meanwhile, her own experiences were chronicled in Bearing Witness, a documentary by Bob Eisenhardt and Barbara Kopple that features five women journalists working in combat zones.
Bingham may come by her penchant for investigative journalism naturally: She’s the daughter of the late Barry Bingham, long-time editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal.
