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They’re Here: “Often the danger is what’s unseen. It’s the menace lurking off camera.” -- L.P. “It’s not about saying ‘F**k ICE,’ it’s about saying ‘Don’t take these people away from us.’” -- R.L.M.
In this vHopeful Conversation, I speak with Academy Award-winning filmmaker and journalist Laura Poitras and filmmaker and investigative journalist Rachel Lauren Mueller about their extraordinary short documentary, They’re Here, which I first saw at its world premiere in Venice. We explore how they drew on the language of horror and dystopian cinema to convey the terror of immigration raids in Minneapolis, while revealing the care, courage, and ingenuity of neighbors determined to protect one another. From the claustrophobic perspective of an immigrant traveling to work in a car trunk to the…
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