“Jonathan is a neighbor and friend of mine in this quiet little town on the Hudson. Our kids grew up together. We go our separate ways in terms of work, but we did do a documentary together called The Agronomist, about Jean Dominique, the human-rights activist assassinated in Haiti in 2000. That documentary took about five years to do. But Jonathan … he’s the movie guy. I’m the book guy.”
That’s Daniel Wolff (pictured) speaking by phone from his home in Nyack, New York. “Jonathan” is Jonathan Demme, the film director. And it’s taken another five years for Wolff and Demme to put together their new documentary, I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful, which aired this week on the PBS series POV (and airs locally on WKNO2 tonight, Sunday, September 23rd, at 9 p.m.).
