The group “Lost Voices” gave their rights and video footage to a production company who were making a documentary.  The executive producer, Todd Walton, just screwed them out of any input or benefit, and took their name off the movie.  They have a sad. 
(Via Riverfront Times) Lost Voices: A Ferguson Story was supposed to be a narrative documentary about the struggle for justice and equality after the shooting death of Michael Brown.
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In exchange for exclusive access to Lost Voices — a devoted and notoriously insular group of teens and twentysomethings who camped out in Ferguson during last year’s unrest — Chicago filmmaker Lonnie Edwards would dedicate his film to their cause.
It would be a tool to raise consciousness for the demonstrators fighting against police brutality and racial discrimination in St. Louis and the country. Lost Voices would tour the country with Edwards’ film, sharing their stories from the frontlines while engaging with people who watched the tumult unfurl on live streams and national news broadcasts.
At least, that’s what they thought would happen.
In a disheartening-yet-predictable move, activists say Edwards reneged on the verbal agreement he made with protesters during those early, heady days of protest, and has now removed them completely from editing, marketing or production of the film. Even the title has changed; what started as Lost Voices: A Ferguson Story is now simply, A Ferguson Story.
“I hoped that [Edwards] would just do the right thing because he said so many times that he wasn’t in it for the money, that he was down for the cause, for the movement,” says Kristiana Colón, a Chicago-based activist who first introduced Edwards to the Lost Voices. She calls not getting an agreement in writing between Edwards and the Lost Voices her “greatest shortcoming.” (read more)

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