SEATTLE (WA)
Post-Intelligencer
By CLAUDIA ROWE
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
In 2002, when news stories broke detailing a decades-long coverup of child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic church, Kirby Dick, a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles, felt many things, among them exasperation.
News coverage concentrated on accountability and blame and, eventually, lawsuits. But rarely did he read anything that exposed the emotional reality of victims. "Twist of Faith," Dick hopes, will redress that.
In an interview with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Dick and producer Eddie Schmidt discussed their search for an appropriate subject to tell this story and described church reaction in its aftermath.