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Revisiting Memory, Desire and Form: Angelica Ruffier on Her IFFR-Bound ‘La belle année’
In this interview, Angelica Ruffier talks about mining her past brushes with desire for her IFFR doc La belle année
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A Place Like Home: Founder Judy Kibinge Looks Back on Her 13-Year Tenure Running Kenyan-based Fund DocuBox
After stepping down from running DocuBox, founder Judy Kibinge reflects back on her 13-year tenure at the Kenya-based East Africa documentary fund
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Sinéad O’Shea Talks Capturing Fergie Chambers’s Many Contradictions in ‘All About the Money’
Sinéad O’Shea talks about the challenges of capturing Fergie Chambers’s many contradictions in All About the Money
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Environmental Horror: Abby Ellis Talks About Luring Audiences into Watching ‘The Lake’
Abby Ellis talks about ringing the alarm on the “environmental nuclear bomb” in Utah with her Sundance doc The Lake
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Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown on Making ‘Kikuyu Land’ for Global Audiences
Bea Wangondu and Andrew H. Brown on what to translate and what to keep sacred in their Sundance-premiering Kikuyu Land
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The Synthesis: Valerie Veatch Connects AI and Eugenics in ‘Ghost in the Machine’
Valerie Veatch traces the links between AI and eugenics in Sundance-premiering Ghost in the Machine , a self-funded documentary treatise made with
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“A Kind of Opera”: Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić on Their Sundance Doc ‘To Hold a Mountain’ 
Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić discuss avoiding rural clichés in their Montenegro-set documentary To Hold a Mountain
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The Seat Between Them: Sharon Liese on Documentary Intervention and Press Freedom in ‘Seized’
Sharon Liese on filming Seized, orchestrating a conversation between adversaries, and documenting a Kansas community reckoning with press freedom
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Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig Discuss ‘Jaripeo,’ Their Queer Rodeo Hybrid Doc Premiering at Sundance
In this interview, Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig talk about their years-long collaboration on their queer rodeo hybrid doc Jaripeo
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Honey on a Razor’s Edge: Alysa Nahmias on Girl Scout Capitalism in ‘Cookie Queens’
Alysa Nahmias discusses her Sundance-premiering Cookie Queens and the impossible sweetness of Girl Scout cookie season
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