LA Weekly: Keith Maitland Gets Animated Discussing His Powerful Documentary Tower
January 22, 2017
Animation has come to play a greater role in documentaries, and it dominates the action of Tower to powerful dramatic effect. Maitland interviewed surviving eyewitnesses, cast actors to read their words on the soundtrack, and brings those voices to life with clean, minimally drawn characters that are sometimes set against black-and-white archival footage from the 96-minute siege on the university mall.
