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Africa doesn’t make the news in the United States very often. Even countries like Liberia that are uniquely linked to our own history rarely make headlines. As a result, you’ve probably never heard of the courageous women who came between a group of warlords and a corrupt president in 2003 to bring [...]

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Lance Hammer at the Berlin International Film Festival
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I recently sat down in West Hollywood to chat with Lance Hammer who won the Sundance Film Festival directing award for his debut feature Ballast. The film also won the cinematography award at Sundance and it has been nominated for four Gotham Independent Film Awards.
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