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If I Can’t Do It

An unflinching portrait of a disabled man who is pushing for independence and an equal slice of the American pie.

Series

POV

Premiere Date

July 7, 1998

Length

60 minutes

Funding Type

Co-Production

Awards & Recognition

Winner

1999 duPont Awards - Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award

Walter Brock

Producer

Walter Brock is a critically acclaimed documentary producer/director whose work has been screened and broadcast all over the world. His film LAND(And How It Gets That Way), about preservation, property rights, people, and the land, was broadcast on PBS in the spring of 2005. An earlier film, A Season In Hell, about a young Kentucky woman’s struggle with eating disorders, was featured in P.O.V.’s 1992 season, won Best Documentary at the USA and Atlanta film festivals, and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. If I Can’t Do It premiered on P.O.V.’s True Lives series in 1998. His other films include Other Prisoners (1986), and Writing In Water (1984), both directed by Stephen Roszell. Brock also currently teaches art at St. Francis High School in Louisville, Kentucky.
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