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Global Documentary Industry Leaders Talk Equity in Nonfiction Filmmaking at Cannes Docs
Panelists picked their favorite examples of ethically shot documentaries and debated how best to film a community as an outsider.
Moderated by Devika Girish, editor of New York-based Film Comment magazine, the high-level panel included Alemberg Ang from Filipino production house Daluyong Studios; Chinese filmmaker and artist Viv Li; Chicken & Egg Pictures Program Director Kiyoko McCrae; and Adam Piron, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program. For Piron, it was the debut feature of American visual artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka, “Malni – Towards the Ocean, Towards the Shore,” an experimental work about the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest. While she said she was spoiled for choice, McCrae was keen to plug Chicken & Egg awardee “Your Fat Friend” by Jeanie Finlay, about body-positive blogger, activist and author Aubrey Gordon.
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