John Greyson

Greyson first got involved in filmmaking as a documentarian, because of his political activism. “I was living in New York and became involved in the Farm Workers movement and Central American solidarity. I made a documentary about disarmament, and one about the reconstruction in Nicaragua [during the Sandinista period]. I was always interested in the independent documentary tradition, which dates back to Eisenstein and Vertov (you can in fact date it back to whenever you want to), but they were …