Trailblazing the Pot Beat in 'Rolling Papers'
On New Year’s Day 2014, media from near and far descended on a snowy Denver to capture a spectacle: the first legal sales of marijuana for recreational use.
Most crews left soon after. But one group of Denver-based filmmakers stayed on the story for a full year, following the staffers at the Denver Post as it became pot’s paper of record. The resulting feature-length documentary, “Rolling Papers,” screens Saturday at Aspen Filmfest.
“There were a bazillion cameras out there,” director Mitch Dickman recalls of the day pot went legal, “and we said, ‘Uh-oh, there’s a lot of competition.’ So we hung with it the whole time and over that year all the other feature documentaries fizzled out.”
“Rolling Papers” is about journalism as much as it’s about marijuana. It doesn’t retread the same issue-oriented territory of, say, Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s “Weed” specials on CNN or “Pot Barons of Colorado”...
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