Omar Broadway, the co-director and subject of the 2008 HBO documentary “An Omar Broadway Film,” killed himself earlier this month as police were attempting to arrest him for the murder of his 18-year-old nephew. The 35-year-old Broadway shot himself in the basement of an Essex County, New Jersey residence as authorities surrounded the house. Police are still looking for Kenneth Durant, 36, another subject in the May 4 murder of Najee Broadway.
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Omar Broadway made the transition from incarcerated gang member to filmmaker after arranging for a camera to be smuggled into a state prison and surreptitiously shooting footage for roughly six months, capturing everything from the boredom of life behind bars to corruption among the prison guards, some of whom would use excessive force and physically abuse inmates. Broadway had hoped that getting the tapes out of prison and...
Read More: Sundance Institute Announces 8 Projects for Annual Documentary Edit and Story Lab
Omar Broadway made the transition from incarcerated gang member to filmmaker after arranging for a camera to be smuggled into a state prison and surreptitiously shooting footage for roughly six months, capturing everything from the boredom of life behind bars to corruption among the prison guards, some of whom would use excessive force and physically abuse inmates. Broadway had hoped that getting the tapes out of prison and...
- 6/20/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Filmmaker and brother of Lil Wayne videographer DJ Scoob Doo tells Mixtape Daily he wanted to show what's really 'going on inside.'
By Alvin Blanco, with reporting by Rahman Dukes
Photo: MTV News
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Omar Broadway has managed to make the cable series "Lockup Raw" and "Locked Up Abroad" look like sitcoms. While serving out a 10-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey, the filmmaker and former inmate shot the deplorable and chaotic conditions he was living in. No easy task considering what he was doing was illegal.
"My relationship with several officers allowed a camera to fall into my lap and record how we were living back there, how life was in a gang unit," Omar told Mixtape Daily. "We just managed not to get caught with the camera."
Using a Panasonic Pv-GS12, Omar secretly documented his life...
By Alvin Blanco, with reporting by Rahman Dukes
Photo: MTV News
The O.D.: A Mixtape Daily Exclusive
Omar Broadway has managed to make the cable series "Lockup Raw" and "Locked Up Abroad" look like sitcoms. While serving out a 10-year sentence at Northern State Prison in Newark, New Jersey, the filmmaker and former inmate shot the deplorable and chaotic conditions he was living in. No easy task considering what he was doing was illegal.
"My relationship with several officers allowed a camera to fall into my lap and record how we were living back there, how life was in a gang unit," Omar told Mixtape Daily. "We just managed not to get caught with the camera."
Using a Panasonic Pv-GS12, Omar secretly documented his life...
- 3/18/2011
- MTV Music News
At 8 p.m. Et, HBO 2 debuts a documentary filmed largely by a prisoner using a contraband video camera. An Omar Broadway Film is named for its primary cinematographer and co-director, Omar Broadway, who's incarcerated in the maximum security gang unit of Newark, New Jersey's Northern State Prison. Edited by Robert Greene and directed by Doug Tirola, the 4th Row Films production shows prison life through the perspective of Omar's cell. That includes abuse of...
- 7/14/2010
- by Andy Dehnart
- Reality Blurred
Airing on HBO this Wednesday, July 14th, is a documentary called An Omar Broadway Film. In short, an incarcerated gang member (Omar Broadway, as the title says), serving a sentence for carjacking and other related offenses, sneaks a video camera into his 6 square feet solitary-confinement cell in a Newark high-security prison (with the help of “one or two” guards), in order to document on tape the use of excessive force and corruption among the institution’s guards, risking his life.
Footage was recorded over a six-month+ period of time, in 2004, and eventually edited, with the help of co-director Douglas Tirola on the “outside,” & 4th Row Films. The final edit screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008; And now HBO will air the controversial work.
I looked for any info on where Omar Broadway is currently, but none of the write-ups I read regarding the film said anything about that. I...
Footage was recorded over a six-month+ period of time, in 2004, and eventually edited, with the help of co-director Douglas Tirola on the “outside,” & 4th Row Films. The final edit screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008; And now HBO will air the controversial work.
I looked for any info on where Omar Broadway is currently, but none of the write-ups I read regarding the film said anything about that. I...
- 7/12/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
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