DX: Tell me about the new project Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation...
CB: That’s an interesting project. It’s about the liberation movement of southwest Africa, under the leadership of Sam Nujoma. It takes place from 1930-1999 when they gained their independence, and it follows Sam Nujoma from a young boy to when he becomes president. But its also about the people of Namibia, and how it’s their revolution. It started in the 1800s and so its an ongoing struggle. It’s an epic piece that tells the Namibian story of what happened.

DX: How important is it overall for American filmmakers to document the global political scene?
CB: I think it’s important…not just Americans…anyone who can lend their name or talents to help people to tell their story. The Namibians should have had their own directors to make the film… but the Namibians don’t have an industry. So they needed someone with experience in developing to direct…so hopefully what we did will jump start the industry. The problem is that the Namibians have like two million people and less than three multiplexes in the whole country. So it’s very difficult to make an industry commercially viable. But you can do it with smaller independent digital theaters. It doesn’t take very much to start those up. The communities are very tribal and each group wants to tell their own story. I think the only way they can do it is to have really small digital theaters and to accommodate the community and target specific films for that community.

DX: What is the most important international affair right now?
CB: I think the U.S. role in dominating the world as a whole, and these multinational companies and groups that are buying up water rights and stopping people in their own countries from making a living. The World Bank International Monetary Fund has policies that create class differences and poverty…there’s a lot of issues that have to be addressed. It’s becoming a world where the rich own everything. And AIDS in Africa. And the tribal wars in Darfur. There’s so many issues, I don’t even isolate just one; you have to have a holistic approach where there are people serving this issue and other people serving that issue. It’s a war that we’re in.