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Azadeh
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Azadeh is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her latest project is a 26-part BBC/Netflix series called Haters. For the last 18 months, she has been bringing together people deeply entrenched on opposing sides of an issue: feminists and misogynists; white supremacists and black lives matter activists; yankees fans and red sox fans; bullies and the bullied; the well-mannered and those who behave badly on the subway; evangelicals and LGBTQ folks; nationalists and immigrants; environmentalists and climate change deniers. She brings them to a remote cabin in the woods for a week’s ‘vacation.’ Only after they have shown signs of empathy and bonding with each other, does Azadeh share with them who they are and why they were chosen. It’s a human moment that never doesn’t deliver. Only occasionally does she feel bad about the subterfuge.
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(Inspired by Lynda Barry and her (totally freaking amazing) Writing the Unthinkable workshop at the Omega Institute.)