Veracity: We All Shine On is a film that deals with my own personal history, and the history of my father, Kent Heitholt, was murdered in 2001. The film was developed to critique the media and how they treat murder victims and their families, with its constant reporting and questionable ethics. I struggled at first trying to decide how to process this information into a film, eventually settling on the idea of re-mediating the story by using the device of a television investigative news program with myself as the reporter. This way I was able to become the author of my family’s story, while exposing the insensitivities and carelessness of the media. Within the film we also get glimpses of my father as I tell the stories of events that touched me deeply as a kid. The film is a critique, homage, an exploration, a catharsis, a portrait and a very human story. My story…reclaimed.