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Film
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length
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year
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description
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credits
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A Year in Burgundy
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1 h 31 m
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2013
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Seven families discuss the cultural and creative process of making
wine in the Burgundy region of France.
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Dir: David Kennard
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Addicted to Sheep
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1 h 26 m
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2015
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UK: In North Pennines, tenant farmers Tom & Kay look after a
flock of prized sheep. This film follows them on the farm for a year.
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Dir: Magali Pettier
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Bananas*
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1 h 20 m
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2009
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Sweden: The effects (death, infertility) of Dole’s use of a banned
chemical on workers in banana plantations in Nicaragua.
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Dir. Fredrik Gertten
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Big Boys Gone Bananas
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1 h 30 m
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2011
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Sweden/Germany/UK/USA/Denmark: In 2009 Dole Food Company campaigned
to prevent the screening of ‘Bananas’ at Los Angeles film festival. Three
years later, the director comes back with another eye-opening documentary
examining the right to freedom of speech and the story of what happens when filmmakers
go up against a large corporation like Dole.
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Dir. Fredrik Gertten
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Can You Dig This
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1 h 20 m
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2015
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USA: South Los Angeles. As part of an urban gardening movement taking
root in South LA, people are planting to transform their neighbourhoods. This
film follows the inspirational journeys of four unlikely gardeners,
discovering what happens when they put their hands in the soil. The film
features inspirational guerrilla gardener Ron Finley.
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Dir. Delila Vallot
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Discovering Lindane: the legacy of HCH production
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33 m
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2015
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Spain: The legacy of Lindane production in northern Spain, and a
project demonstrating how to clean up pesticide contamination here and in
similar situations.
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Film by Arturo Hortas
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Edible City: A documentary about the good food movement
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55 m
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2014
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USA: “fun, fast-paced journey through the local Good Food Movement
taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, and around the world. Introducing
a diverse cast of extraordinary and eccentric characters who are challenging
the paradigm of our broken food system, EDIBLE CITY digs into their unique
perspectives and transformative work—from edible education to grassroots
activism to building local economies…”
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Dir: Andrew Hasse
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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
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1 h 48 m
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2010
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Germany: For 6 months of the year, Spanish chef Ferran Adrià and his
team used to close El Bulli to prepare the innovative menu for the next
season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art.
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Dir: Gereon Wetzel
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Farmageddon: The unseen war on American family farms
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1 h 26 m
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2011
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USA: The story of a mom whose son healed from all allergies and asthma
after consuming raw milk and real food from farms. It shows people all over US
forming food co-ops and private clubs to get these foods, and how they were
raided by state and local governments.
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Dir: Kristin Canty
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Fed Up
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1 h 32 m
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2014
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USA: A look at the causes of obesity epidemic and the food industry's
role in aggravating it.
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Film by Stephanie Soechtig & Katie Couric
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Fish Meat
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29 & 52 m
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2012
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USA/Turkey: As our hunger for seafood grows, the seas are running out
of fish. But what exactly is farmed fish? Two friends, a fish scientist and
environmental engineer, take a sailing voyage to pull back the cover on
modern fish farming. Along the way they discover the tragedy of Bluefin Tuna
and the joy of carp.
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Dir: Joe Cunningham
Writer: Ted Caplow
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Food, inc
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1 h 34 m
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2008
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USA: An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food
industry. Contributors include Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser and Richard Lobb.
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Dir: Robert Kenner
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Grazers: A Cooperative Story
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69 m
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2014
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USA: With increasing interest in farm-to-table food, a small group of
upstate New York farmers sees an opportunity to hold on to their endangered
farms by raising and selling grass-fed beef. The film follows the
cooperatives efforts for two years, exposing the difficulties facing small-scale
farming in our modern, industrial world.
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Film by Sarah Teale & Lisa F Jackson
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Good Things Await
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90 m
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2014
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Denmark/USA (subtitled): Farmer Niels Stokholm and his wife Rita work
the biodynamic farm in Thorshøjgaardalternative, Denmark, with natural
livestock rearing and other alternative methods, and they supply top
restaurants (e.g. NOMA), but in conflict with national organic standards
body.
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Dir. Phie Ambo
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Growing Cities
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1 h 37 m
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2013
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USA: A film examining the role of urban farming in America, asking
how much power it has to revitalize our cities and change the way we eat.
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Dir: Daniel Susman, co-writer Andrew Monbouquette
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Hungry for Change
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1 h 29 m
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2012
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Exposes ‘secrets’ of diet and weight loss - deceptive food industries
strategies designed to keep you coming back for more.
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Dir: James Colquhoun & Laurentine Ten Bosch
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Ingredients: The Local Food Movement takes Root
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1 h 13 m
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2009
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USA: American food is crisis: obesity and diabetes, family farms in
decline and environment in jeopardy. The film explores a local food movement,
seeking more flavour and nutrition to bring good food back to the table and
health back to communities. Contributions from Alice Waters and several
restaurateurs.
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Dir: Robert Bates
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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
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75 m
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2014
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USA/UK (focus on USA). Filmmakers and food lovers Jen & Grant
look at the issue of food waste, from farm to fridge. After catching a
glimpse of billions of dollars of good food tossed away each year in North
America, they pledge to survive only on discarded food.
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Dir: Grant Baldwin
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Local Food Roots
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35 m
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2014
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UK: The emergence of innovative local food movement from a handful of
pioneers in the early 90s to diverse UK-wide movement; first organic box
schemes to today’s local food culture.
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f3/Sprout Films
Joy Carey co-producer & scriptwriter
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Moo Man
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97 m
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2013
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UK: Filmed over 4 years on marshes of the Pevensey Levels, maverick
farmer Stephen Hook turns his back on cost-cutting dairies and supermarkets,
and instead stays small and family-run to keep a close relationship with his
herd of cows.
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Dir: Andy Heathcote
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More than Honey
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92 m
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2013
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Switzerland/Germany/Austria: Delightful, informative & suitably
contemplative study of the bee world. State-of-the-art film making (with surprisingly
up-closes) looks at why bee populations worldwide are collapsing. English
version narrated by John Hurt.
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Film by Markus Imhoof
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Noma: My Perfect Storm
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1 h 40 m
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2015
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Focus on chef and Noma co-owner René Redzepi’s work, as he searches
for inspiration in Denmark and reflects on the Copenhagen restaurant’s
success. The restaurant helped bring Scandinavian food to the world’s
attention. The films looks at foraging and local food sourcing.
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Dir: Pierre Deschamps
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Open Sesame: The Story of Seeds
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82 m
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2014
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Protecting endangered seed varieties (90% of fruit & veg
varieties existing 100 years ago are gone. Maintaining remaining seed
biodiversity essential to breed new varieties resistant to pests or that will
thrive in temperature extremes and a changing climate.
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Film by Sean Kaminsky
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Raising Shrimp
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52 m
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2013
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USA: Shrimp is the most popular seafood in the USA, but 90% is
imported and most of that is farmed. How is shrimp farmed? Is it safe to eat?
What happened to the American shrimp fishery?
Among questions asked.
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Film by Joe Cunningham &
Ted Caplow
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Slow Food Story
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1 h 14 m
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2013
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Italy/Ireland: In 1986, Carlo Petrini founded the ArciGola
Gastronomic Association in Italy and 3 years later launched Slow Food, an
international anti-fast-food resistance movement. From the tiny town of Bra,
home to some 27,000 inhabitants, the Slow Food movement has grown to become a
revolution that now has roots in more than 150 countries. Cheese-makers,
vintners, and artisanal food folk, toast Slow Food for bringing about a
change in consciousness that shook the very foundation of gastronomy.
Featuring Carlo Petrini and narrated by Azio Citi.
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Dir: Stefano Sardo
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Slow Food Videos
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1 m – 20 min
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Range of Slow Food videos on all aspects of Slow Food’s campaigns.
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Seeds of Time
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77 m
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2013
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USA: The story of Cary Fowler's drive to collect seeds and create a
seed bank to preserve agricultural biodiversity - the Svalbard Global Seed
Vault on the arctic island of Spitsbergen, Norway.
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Dir: Sandy McLeod
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Symphony of the Soil
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103 m
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2012
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USA: An artistic exploration of soil. By understanding elaborate
relationships and mutuality between soil, water, atmosphere, plants and
animals, we come to appreciate the complex & dynamic nature of this
precious resource. Includes use/misuse of soil in agriculture etc worldwide
and soil’s key role in ameliorating the most challenging environmental issues
of our time.
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A film by Deborah Koons Garcia
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The Clean Bin Project
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76 m
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2011
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USA: Is it possible to live completely waste free? Partners Jen &
Grant go head to head in a competition to swear off consumerism and produce
the least garbage [focus on packaging/ecological impacts]
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Dir: Grant Baldwin
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The Farmer and The Horse
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1 h 17 m
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2010
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USA: Film about sustainability, self-sufficiency, and why we do the
work we do. Difficulties and satisfaction of organic farming, through one New
Jersey farmer’s experience (doesn’t use a tractor). Concerns land use, the
environment, and good food.
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Film by Jared Flesher
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The Last Catch (15)
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85& 52 m
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2012
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Germany: Fish stocks facing collapse. Focus on Bluefin tuna. Modern
big business, traditional family fishing business and industry critic POVs.
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Dir: Markus Schmidt
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This Changes Everything
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89 m
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2015
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USA/Canada. Filmed in 9 countries/5 continents over 4 years, this
documentary looks at the vast challenge of climate change. Inspired by Naomi
Klein's bestseller.
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Dir: Avi Lewis
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