![]() ![]() The film was not especially positive about the Peace Corps experience the Peace Corps decided not to use it for recruiting, but to use it for training people who have been in for about a year. ![]() He tested this theory on a film on the Peace Corps in Colombia, in a small village 50 miles outside Bogotá. Harris believes that filmmakers can construct a cinema verite film beforehand by considering repeatable events-that is, by determining which events are likely to recur frequently, and being there to film those events when they do. Harris tried investigative journalism next but quit after realizing he did not like to embarrass people. The police called him a few weeks later to ask if he had found his car. Harris started out as a crime reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau, and reports that on his first story he went into a police station and had his car stolen from in front of it. ![]() The aforementioned Into The Arms and Long Way Home also landed Academy Awards. Educated at Harvard, Harris co-produced the short The Redwoods for the Sierra Club with Trevor Greenwood the short won the 1967 Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject. ![]()
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