Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters | dG1fbTlIeUgzUnhIRHM
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00:00Don't forget why I agreed to do this.
00:04Tell me why I agreed to do this.
00:07This documentary will record your progress from your arrival in Canada as a draft refugee
00:12through your career as a filmmaker.
00:14Where's my wife?
00:18I'm here, Leo.
00:19I want to tell everything, for the record.
00:21I know most of the stuff, anyway.
00:22You don't know any of it.
00:23Okay, let's begin.
00:24Lights, please.
00:25Leonard 5, December 22, 2023.
00:35The story begins the night of March 30th, 1968, Richmond, Virginia.
00:44I can hear him.
00:45You're her.
00:46She'll be a girl.
00:47Ben tells me you're going north tomorrow.
00:48I was on my way to decide my future.
00:49I never returned to Virginia.
00:50I met Amy in a bar in St. Petersburg, and I met Amanda.
00:55By the time I was 22.
01:00I'd already been married, fathered a child, gotten divorced.
01:06Up among this empty hay
01:08I'd already been married, fathered a child, gotten divorced.
01:12Day and night
01:15My head ruined my life.
01:17Oh
01:19I'm waiting for everything to just kind of fall into place.
01:22Oh, oh, oh, ah
01:27He's mixing things together.
01:29Memories, films, fantasies, other people's stories.
01:31You're talking about me like I'm not in the room.
01:34I can hear you.
01:35Come on, let's just keep going. Can we do that?
01:38You're confused.
01:39Stay away from me.
01:40Laying soft around your face
01:43You were a hero.
01:44You stood against war.
01:45As you turn to ask
01:48Stop. That's enough.
01:49Stop this now.
01:51Is it long, my love, until we're in?
01:54When you have no future.
01:56All you have left is your past.
01:59All you have left is your past.
02:05All you have left is your past.