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Building bridges based on the belief that film becomes art only when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil & paper. Cine Pobre Film Festival is the 100% self-funded intersection of culture and capabilities.
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Orphans [a requiem]
A mix of historical documentary and fiction that offers a rare glimpse of North Korean life. It's about the sometimes hidden trauma and forgotten casualties of the Korean War, and the birds that seem to echo that history across the peninsula.
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Joel Elliott
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