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Politics, Susage, and the Messy Art of Documentary Filmmaking
Saleha Ghani

Mark Twain once remarked that there are two things you should never see being made, Politics and Sausage, because if you knew how they were produced, you might lose your taste for them. Alex Kronemer, co-founder of Unity Productions Foundation, adds ‘documentary filmmaking’ to this list of disenchanting processes.