Director: Susan Morgan Cooper Producer: Susan Morgan Cooper, Cindy Lou Adkins Editor: Isaac Hagy
Country: USA Runtime: 1:25
Synopsis
Eddie Adams photographed 13 wars, Six American Presidents, and every major film star of the last 50 years. History would be changed through his lens. But the person Eddie found hardest to impress was himself.
In 1968, in 1/500th of a second Eddie Adams photographed a Saigon police chief, General Nygoc Loan, shooting a vietcong guerilla point black. Some say that photograph ended the Vietnam war. The photo brought Eddie fame and a Pulitzer, but Eddie was haunted by the man he had vilified. He would say, 'Two lives were destroyed that day, the victim's and the general.' Other's would say three lives were destroyed.
With Narration by Kiefer Sutherland and Score by Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens (Letters from Iwo Jima).
Director
Susan Morgan Cooper
Susan Morgan Cooper was born in a tiny village in Wales, where her parents put on plays to raise money for charity.
Susan came to America as an actress scoring a small role in a Clint Eastwood movie. She soon discovered however, that film editing excited her much more than acting.
When she met a young Croatian girl displaced by the Balkan War, Susan felt compelled to make her first documentary Mirjana, One Girl’s Journey.
Susan has just completed a feature documentary on the Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Eddie Adams, An Unlikely Weapon.
“It’s ironic that in a dramatic short I made about a photographer in Vietnam (Stringers), I used some of the images of Eddie Adams.”
“I have always been fascinated by war photographers. Probably the one thing I can claim to share with Eddie Adams is a fascination with displaced and oppressed people.”
A project Susan is developing with Fairplay Pictures centers around the street children of Rio and the Death Squads that routinely murder them.
8 years ago Susan made a film about a remarkable cop in East Los Angeles, who turned around the lives of a group of gang kids, grooming them into a winning roller hockey team.
“I made a promise to them all that day I would make a real movie about them. This is the year!” In 2008 Susan is set to direct the feature film base on their story called Roadrunners.”
