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One in a Million: “Suddenly she looks at me & says, this is freedom. And I was really shocked.” I.A. "There isn't just a binary between integrating & sticking to your culture.” J.M.
In this vHopeful conversation, I talk with Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes, directors of the extraordinary documentary One in a Million, about their decade of filming Israa and her family as they fled Syria and built a new life in Germany, and about the trust, commitment, and emotional honesty that allowed them to capture the deeply personal experience of displacement and migration. We discuss how sharing the family’s journey challenged the boundaries between filmmaking and friendship, what it meant to be “humans first and reporters second,” and how they found the heart of their film in the love…
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