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I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
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For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue.
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ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using.
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We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.
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Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.
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I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
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I landed a job at HBO, working for two years on the 'The Alzheimer's Project,' which aired in May 2009. I was fortunate to work with a great mentor, producer John Hoffman, and the amazing doc filmmaker Susan Froemke.
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We as a society need to become healthier.