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When documentary partners disagree on emotional approach to difficult subjects

My collaborator and I are making a documentary about climate grief and we're both dealing with our own eco-anxiety in completely different ways - she wants to focus on solutions and hope while I think we need to sit with the despair first. Every interview we do becomes this weird proxy argument about how people should feel about the end of the world.

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Two filmmakers discover their personal coping mechanisms are incompatible storytelling philosophies.

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