Jim Healy talks to Brad Lichtenstein & Claude Motley about WHEN CLAUDE GOT SHOT.On the streets of Milwaukee, third year law student, father, and husband Claude Motley is shot in the face by 15-year-old carjacker Nathan King. Filmed over five years, When Claude Got Shot follows Claude’s life after the shooting and his struggles to recover mentally and physically. Diverted from a legal career, Claude must contend with multiple surgeries, catastrophic health care bills, and stress on his family while remaining engaged as the criminal justice system resolves Nathan’s fate. Torn between a desire for punishment and an awareness of the injustice of mass incarceration of young Black men, Claude reflects on his own life and its similarity to Nathan’s. Prolific and award-winning Milwaukee-based documentary filmmaker Brad Lichtenstein (As Goes Janesville, There Are Jews Here – WFF 2017) has crafted an inspiring and riveting portrait of one man’s journey from victim of violent crime to someone with a profound and hopeful vision of justice. While When Claude Got Shot is an unmistakably Wisconsin story, it speaks most powerfully and universally to the human condition and the desire to change and forgive. “Nuanced… offers multidimensional storytelling amid facts, balancing events and personal lives without turning anyone into nameless statistics” (Mae Abdulbaki, Screen Rant). 2021 SXSW Film Festival. (JH)