You’ve seen this type of documentary before; underdogs going against the system, triumphing and failing, where the human spirit faces great adversity. These features can be a little too sweet, or even a little biased – but despite this, that’s kind of their point. They’re about little things, yet they feel big – but only if the feature can take the small, isolated worlds of its subjects and make them universal. So there lies the ultimate challenge for the documentarian. Success differs from…
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