Halting the originally planned episode for this week, this podcast was published as a response to the abrupt backlash to the start of the podcast series, the launch of the media campaign, and a newspaper article and radio interview that broke the story of the film's pre-release plans. This week's talk dives right into the heart of the outright threats that came in upon the town of quartzite finding out about the film. This, of course, prompts the director to start asking some deeper questions about who he is really filming, what story has his interviewees given him, if perhaps he has been used by many of his interviewees as a mouthpiece for propaganda, and even what the viewer response would be if it turns out that the success story being filmed isn't all that successful after all. What happens when, at mid production, you find out that the film you're making might not be a celebration of past trials overcome, but a current and ongoing struggle that still has yet to see that success? This is all in The First 24 Hours.