With 2024 coming to an end, we reflect on the progress we’ve made on “Murdered on the Fourth of July” in the last 12 months.
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26 Years Later
It’s been 26 years since Lin “Spit” Newborn and Daniel Shersty were killed in the desert outside Las Vegas after being drawn out there under false pretenses by a group of neo-Nazi skinheads. It’s been 26 years since parents lost their sons, a child lost his father, and a community lost one of its guiding […]
Las Vegas filming, week 1
Last week, we assembled our Murdered on the Fourth of July team–director/producer Pj Perez, co-producer Roudi Boroumand and cinematographer Winston Moon–in Las Vegas for a whirlwind three days of filming, with the aid of sound mixer Ty Peterson and production assistant Mario Martin. We crisscrossed the Las Vegas Valley to film interviews with five subjects […]
Getting to Know Cinematographer Winston Moon
Cinematographer Winston Moon joined the Murdered on the Fourth of July team this summer, bringing not only his camera, lighting and visual storytelling talents to the project, but also his approach to being “an authentic human.” “I’m blessed to have an intuitive relationship with story and images and am very much led by my heart […]
In Their Own Words: Co-Producer Roudi Boroumand
1 It was the Summer of 2009. I was sitting in a corner at Dead Poet Books in Las Vegas, reading from a pile of books, magazines, and binders of clippings that the store owner had introduced for my research. I was looking for the biographies of the artists that have died young to write […]
In Their Own Words: Director and Producer Pj Perez
I don’t remember the first time I met Lin “Spit” Newborn. I know that it was at the Torrey Pines Discount Cinema, home in the early 1990s to Friday and Saturday midnight screenings of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Spit was just one of the dozens of regular “freaks” who came to “watch” Rocky every weekend. […]