Kelly Duda

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Kelly Duda is an American filmmaker from Arkansas. Duda spent 7 years making Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal.

Variety magazine described Duda as "a pit bull with a bureaucratic bone" who "follows subjects fearlessly and ventures into hostile environs (and) comes away, most of the time, with the information he wants to get." Variety described Factor 8 as "hard-headed journalism" stating, "one of the things that hits the viewer in 'Factor 8' is that Ken Starr spent more than $40 million trying to pin something on then-President Clinton, and missed what Duda found via sheer leg work."

The American Film Institute remarked, "Kelly Duda's dedication to the truth is an inspiration—this expose wears his heart on its sleeve, refusing to let the victims die in vain."

Duda was also part of the team for Fuji Television that produced 'The Hepatitis C Epidemic: A 15-Year Government Cover-up'. The program won a George Foster Peabody Award in 2003 and was reportedly watched by more than 12 million viewers in Japan.

In addition, Duda was the "go-to" contact in Arkansas for Robert Greenwald's controversial documentary 'Wal-Mart: The High Cost To Low Price.'