Protagonist is a 2007

2007 in film

This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...

 documentary film

Documentary film

Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...

 about the parallels between human life and Euripidean dramatic structure

Euripides

Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...

. The film was written and directed by Jessica Yu

Jessica Yu

Jessica Lingman Yu is an American film director, writer, producer, and editor. She has worked on documentaries, dramatic films, and television shows. Yu won an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien .-Early life:Yu graduated from Gunn...

. It featured extensive interviews with German terrorist Hans-Joachim Klein

Hans-Joachim Klein

Hans-Joachim Klein is a former member of the German left-wing militant group Revolutionary Cells . In 1975 Klein participated in an attack on OPEC headquarters in Vienna organized by Carlos the Jackal, in which he was seriously injured. He publicly renounced political violence two years later...

, ex-gay Christian evangelist Mark Pierpont, Mexican bank robber Joe Loya, and martial-arts enthusiast Mark Salzman

Mark Salzman

Mark Joseph Salzman is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s....

(and the director's husband). Interspersed with the interviews are scenes from ancient Greek drama performed by puppets.

External links

• Protagonist Jessica Yu's Protagonist available from Alive Mind Media