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	Podcast:		On Assignment Podcast
	Episode:		#6: June Cross and Journalist Lisa Desai
	Category:		News & Politics
	Duration:		00:33:04
	Publish Date:		2016-05-09 23:03:38
	Description:		On Assignment’s season finale features accomplished filmmaker and the founder of Columbia Journalism School’s Documentary Program June Cross. She took the stage at a recent Film Friday screening with producer Lisa Desai to discuss their latest film - Wilhemina’s War, available on PBS until June 1st, then for sale online at Women Make Movies. In this podcast, June walks our audience through the film’s exhaustive five year production, which traces the impact of HIV through three generations of women in a rural South Carolina community. Hear June and Lisa on the successes and pitfalls of documentary filmmaking and the difficulties of covering such an emotionally painful subject.
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