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Here's The Pitch: Spinning The Wheel
Vancouver International
Film Festival Television Trade Forum
29th September 2002
Ronald Ng's at times tentative presentation for his street-racing
doc Spinning The Wheel aimed to share the vicarious thrills of illegal
street-racing in Canada and look at the motivations of the young men (and
possibly women) behind the wheel.
This street "sport" has resulted in much publicised deaths and maiming
of innocent victims, including recently a Vancouver cop whose cruiser
was broadsided. Ng said that he would intercut interviews with street
racers with interviews with victims and their families and the average
Joe in the street. He also planned to use footage from movies showing
street-racing role-models.
The subject-matter was considered exciting ("I'm interested in people
imitating what they see on television," said Channel 4’s Jones), but the
BBC’s Klein raised concerns about the morality of filming incidents which
could end up with crashes, particularly when interviewing victims as well.
The panel agreed that many viewers would be turning on the programme to
watch the crashes. Ng stuttered to respond to this point.
RTE’s McCarthy wanted more colour in the treatment, even if it was a couple
of lines of sample dialogue for each of the key characters in the doc.
"One of the things that I want to see is your passion," stressed Klein.
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