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Let the Fire Burn

Documentary brings to life one of the most tumultuous clashes between government and citizens in modern U.S. history, as a longtime feud between Philadelphia police and controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a tragic climax in 1985.

Premiere Date

May 12, 2014

Length

90 minutes

Awards & Recognition

Winner

2013 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Best Editing

Nominee

2013 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Best Feature Award

Nominee

2013 International Documentary Association (IDA) - Humanitas Documentary Award

Nominee

2013 International Documentary Association (IDA) - ABC News VideoSource Award

filmmaker Jason Osder
Jason Osder

Producer/Director

Director Jason Osder is the director of the award-winning documentary LET THE FIRE BURN about the 1985 confrontation between the group MOVE and the Philadelphia police that claimed the lives of 11 people. Supported in part by the Sundance Institute, LET THE FIRE BURN premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival where it won the best editing in a documentary award and a jury special mention for best new documentary director. The film went on to play more than 50 film festivals around the world and be nominated for over a dozen awards. It won the best editing prize at the Montreal International Documentary Festival, the International Documentary Association Creative Recognition Prize in Editing, the Cinema Eye Honor for Editing and the Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award. Jason is Assistant Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.