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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey to Screen at DocuTime

Kevin Clash, longtime voice of Sesame Street's Elmo, during an interview at the National Book Festival.
Bill Thompson
Kevin Clash, longtime voice of Sesame Street's Elmo, during an interview at the National Book Festival.

The DocuTime Festival returns to UNCW Saturday. This year’s slate includes the 2011 Sundance Festival prize winner Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey, the story of Kevin Clash, the man behind one of the most beloved characters on public television’s Sesame Street.

WHQR's Bob Workmon spoke with the film’s New York-based director Constance Marks by phone and asked her first to talk about why Kevin was a compelling subject for a documentary.

Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey is one of ten films to be screened Saturday at UNCW’s King Hall Auditorium for the DocuTime Film Festival presented by WHQR and UNCW's Department of Film Studies.