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Holding Liat: "the guiding light... in telling this story has been to confront fear, because the amount of fear that has been communicated to us throughout this whole process...has not been realized."
In this conversation, Vanessa Hope and Brandon Kramer explore how Holding Liat follows Brandon Kramer’s own relatives after Israeli-American teacher Liat Beinin Atzili and her husband are kidnapped on October 7, tracing the family’s frantic advocacy in Washington, D.C., and their emotional fractures over politics, grief, and the weaponization of victimhood narratives. Brandon discusses the ethical and emotional challenges of filming close family in real time during an ongoing crisis, balancing his role as a supportive relative with his responsibilities as a documentarian, and using a single…
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