The person sitting on a bed and being interviewed for a documentary is clearly in distress, tears welling.
“Can we take a break for a second?” Delaney Colaio, 18, asks the co-directors of We Go Higher, a documentary about the life experiences of “9/11 Kids,” people with parents murdered in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Someone offers water, but no break is given to Colaio. The directors, the award-winning Sara Hirsh Bordo and her frequent collaborator Michael Campo, resume firing questions about self-harm, Colaio’s relationship with his mother, and about his father, killed when Colaio was a toddler. During the two-hour-plus session, filmed in August 2017, and the three-hour session the night before, Bordo and Campo also grill Colaio on why he doesn’t want to see the terrorists face the death penalty. Amid all this, Colaio, brown eyes bleary and pained, puts his face in his hands and says he’s had enough,...
“Can we take a break for a second?” Delaney Colaio, 18, asks the co-directors of We Go Higher, a documentary about the life experiences of “9/11 Kids,” people with parents murdered in the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Someone offers water, but no break is given to Colaio. The directors, the award-winning Sara Hirsh Bordo and her frequent collaborator Michael Campo, resume firing questions about self-harm, Colaio’s relationship with his mother, and about his father, killed when Colaio was a toddler. During the two-hour-plus session, filmed in August 2017, and the three-hour session the night before, Bordo and Campo also grill Colaio on why he doesn’t want to see the terrorists face the death penalty. Amid all this, Colaio, brown eyes bleary and pained, puts his face in his hands and says he’s had enough,...
- 6/7/2024
- by Allen Salkin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The filmmakers behind We Go Higher, the first-ever documentary about – and made by – the kids of 9/11, have started a three-week campaign to raise funds to finish filming.
The documentary features interviews with children from all over the country who lost parents on 9/11 to help “redefine their story from one of tragedy to hope,” says Women Rising founder and filmmaker Sara Hirsh Bordo.
Women Rising, the production company that is producing We Go Higher, and 18-year-old co-director and executive producer Delaney Colaio, announced earlier this week that they have started an Indiegogo campaign to help with the final filming phase of production.
The documentary features interviews with children from all over the country who lost parents on 9/11 to help “redefine their story from one of tragedy to hope,” says Women Rising founder and filmmaker Sara Hirsh Bordo.
Women Rising, the production company that is producing We Go Higher, and 18-year-old co-director and executive producer Delaney Colaio, announced earlier this week that they have started an Indiegogo campaign to help with the final filming phase of production.
- 9/14/2017
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
Losing her father – and two uncles – in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center at three years old has been the singular defining event in Delaney Colaio’s young life, the 18-year-old tells People.
But rather than feeling bitter and hopeless, the terrorists’ attempt to destroy her family’s spirit only made her stronger – and gave her proof that love and understanding can actually trump anger and hate, she says.
“People hear 9/11 and think tragedy,” she says. “They look at the 9/11 kids and see tragedy. It is a tragedy.
“But we want people to look at us now and see hope.
But rather than feeling bitter and hopeless, the terrorists’ attempt to destroy her family’s spirit only made her stronger – and gave her proof that love and understanding can actually trump anger and hate, she says.
“People hear 9/11 and think tragedy,” she says. “They look at the 9/11 kids and see tragedy. It is a tragedy.
“But we want people to look at us now and see hope.
- 7/1/2017
- by KC Baker
- PEOPLE.com
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