E-mail a friendOctober 5, 2004
LDF president Theodore Shaw explains that the American vote is not constitutionally protected. Filmmaker David O. Russell believes at least half of the country has an appetite for movies that make people think.
Theodore Shaw
Theodore Shaw
Born in the year of the Brown v. Board ruling, attorney Theodore Shaw has helped lead the national discussion on affirmative action in higher education. His posts have included working in the Department of Justice, academia and, currently, head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), the nation's first civil rights law firm. Shaw has been with the LDF since '82, except for a 3-year period when he taught at the University of Michigan law school. He's also an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School.
David O. Russell
David O. Russell
David Russell didn't originally aspire to be a filmmaker. After college graduation, he was a political organizer and literacy teacher. In his spare time, he wrote scripts and made documentaries. Hollywood took notice of his debut indie, Spanking the Monkey, which won at Sundance in '94. Russell became an established director with the film, Three Kings. His anti-war documentary, Soldiers Pay, is set for video release, and his latest commercial effort is the comedy, I [Heart] Huckabees.