Sweetback (SB): Not many directors – even those working with very limited budgets – can stake the claim of directing a feature before their 21st birthday. Can you talk a little about how your interest in film-making developed, and how a kid from Kansas got into making feature genre films?   David Matheny (DM): I’ve been a huge movie fan ever since I can remember. I always thought about making movies, but didn’t take action until my junior year in high school when I got my first digital camcorder. At that point my friends kind of shifted from the
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