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Behind the Lens - Good Fortune
Filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Jeremy Levine talk about their film, which focuses on two stories of international aid in Kenya where good intentions go wrong. Van Soest and Levine explain how they came to make the film, why the two characters they focused on are emblematic of their respective communities and talk about the paternalism with which the West deals with developing nations.
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