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When creative partners process difficult subject matter differently

My documentary filmmaking partner and I are working on a project about climate activism, but she wants to focus on hope and solutions while I'm drawn to the darker realities and systemic failures, and we're creating footage that feels schizophrenic. Our different ways of processing grief are showing up in every creative decision.

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Collaborators discover that their individual relationships to suffering and hope cannot be easily synthesized, making shared truth-telling almost impossible.

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