KUCI Subversity: Searing Documentaries

we talk with the directors of two new documentaries that tackle taboo topics. In the first half hour we talk with Chico Colvard, director of "Family Affair," a daring and uncomfortable yet revealing look at incest within his biracial (white/African American) family. In a quest to explain to himself why it happened and why his three sisters (whom the father sexually violated) still hung out with their father, Colvard's 82-minute documentary makes some surprising revelations. The documentary seems to ask that we not divide those caught in this incestuous web as merely perpetrator and victims but something more complex. Trailer: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/family-affair/trailer In the second hour, we talk with Mary Ann Smother Bruni, whose "Quest for Honor" documentary takes a searing look at the historical phenomenon of "honor killings" - where females are routinely ostracized and even killed for violating traditional codes of conduct. The setting is Sulemaniyah, in Kurdistan, Iraq, where a local group, the Women's Media Center has joined forces with Iraq's Kurdish Regional Government to try to end this heinous practice. The 64-minute film is in Kurdish with English-language subtitles. Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDvRzQdLDo Subversity's show host is Daniel C. Tsang.