"The Interior Lives of People That Aren't Typically Represented in Cinema": Andrew Cohn on The Last Shift

Fascinated with the unseen men and women of forgotten America, Andrew Cohn, proud Midwestern and versatile filmmaker, has created a body of documentary work that witnesses modest, real lives without condescension or pity. Features like Medora or Night School engage with their subjects--a teenage basketball team in small-town Indiana or adult students juggling economic and personal struggles--in a compassionate and collaborative manner. Translating that honesty to fiction now with The Last Shift,...