Ross McElwee: Host Melinda Penkava talks North Carolina-born filmmaker Ross McElwee. His latest film, Bright Leaves (First Run Features/2003), is about his great-grandfather, John McElwee, a business rival of the Duke family during the rise of tobacco. The film contemplates how Ross McElwee’s family may have changed had his great-grandfather won the tobacco wars. (59:00)
This is a re-broadcast of a show that originally aired on Nov. 17, 2004.