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
As the president of the New York-based production company 4th Row Films, Douglas Tirola has produced "Kati with an I" and "Actress," among other documentaries. Previously, he directed "An Omar Broadway Film," "All In - The Poker Movie" and "Hey Bartender." Indiewire met up with Tirola to talk about "Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of The National Lampoon," which premiered last week at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Read More: Review: Robert Greene's Mesmerizing "Actress" You pitched the film to The National Lampoon to get the rights to the original art work. What was your pitch? The pitch came down to two things. One was that we were going to tell the story of the Lampoon and instead of following one character, the arc was going to follow the arc of the Lampoon. Part of what makes the Lampoon so great is that it's sort of like a college...
- 2/3/2015
- by Paula Bernstein
- 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
HollywoodNews.com: Producers Douglas Tirola and Susan Bedusa of 4th Row Films have optioned the exclusive rights to the story of the National Lampoon and its archive for the purposes of a feature documentary to be directed by Tirola. The film will be Tirola’s third documentary feature, following “All In – The Poker Movie” winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2009 Cinevegas Film Festival and “An Omar Broadway Film” which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will premiere on HBO in July, 2010. Featuring rare and never seen before footage, the film will tell the complete story of National Lampoon, from its beginnings as the Harvard Lampoon, through its days as a publishing sensation and Hollywood heavyweight, to its eventual downfall and into its upcoming rebirth. Lampoon produced entertainment, including Lemmings, Animal House and Vacation, gave way to some of the most important comedic talent of our time.
- 6/8/2010
- by HollywoodNews.com
- Hollywoodnews.com
The story of seminal humor magazine National Lampoon will get the documentary treatment from producer Douglas Tirola and Susan Bedusa of 4th Row Films.
The duo behind the award-winning docs "All In: The Poker Movie" and "An Omar Broadway Film" have optioned the rights to the story of Lampoon as well as its archive for a feature film to be directed by Tirola.
The film will tell the story of National Lampoon from its beginnings as the Harvard Lampoon, through its days as a publishing sensation and Hollywood heavyweight, to its eventual downfall and into its rebirth and refocus as a multimedia company.
During its heyday in the 1970s, the magazine was responsible for launching comic and writing talents such as John Hughes while its stage and radio show gave a spotlight to actors such as John Belushi and Chevy Chase. Articles led to movies such as "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "National Lampoon's Animal House.
The duo behind the award-winning docs "All In: The Poker Movie" and "An Omar Broadway Film" have optioned the rights to the story of Lampoon as well as its archive for a feature film to be directed by Tirola.
The film will tell the story of National Lampoon from its beginnings as the Harvard Lampoon, through its days as a publishing sensation and Hollywood heavyweight, to its eventual downfall and into its rebirth and refocus as a multimedia company.
During its heyday in the 1970s, the magazine was responsible for launching comic and writing talents such as John Hughes while its stage and radio show gave a spotlight to actors such as John Belushi and Chevy Chase. Articles led to movies such as "National Lampoon's Vacation" and "National Lampoon's Animal House.
- 6/8/2010
- by By Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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