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In 2012 Frances Goldin gave an interview about her work with Mumia for the making of the film Long Distance Revolutionary (2012). This four-minute cut is a collection of some of the most poignant things she said in the course of that half-hour interview.  Transcript:I think that Mumia's body is incarcerated.  But not his mind.  I think that he lives in the whole world. Not in that cell, not in that small seventeen by eleven foot cell. It is only his body that’s encaged. He’s more free than a lot of people I know that are not in prison at all. He has broken the bounds and if he hadn't they would have let him out long ago. This man is not doing time. He is using time in a way that nobody I have ever met who is in prison has used time. Well I am a radical woman. So one day over the transom I got a manuscript from this prisoner at Huntingdon in Pennsylvania and he had written a story about prisoners on death row.  And I read it and I thought it was terrific. And I sent it to twelve people and I sold it. And that