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vHopeful Conversations Podcast — 26 episodes

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Mistura: "In live screenings, appropriately, we give people a warning before they watch it that this film may—and will—make you hungry."

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Show Up, Speak Out, Document Your Event: 1 Day to FALL OF FREEDOM May Day, 2026

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We Are Guardians: "We have to make it so unbelievably cool and sexy...that we are not supporting big corporations; we are supporting local communities to protect the environment"

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Erupcja: "this film, this experience is a table made of bubbles. It cannot support anything... Try to remember that this is supposed to be for fun. This is just supposed to be enjoyed."

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The Blue Trail: "It was fun to make something like Thelma & Louise meets Soylent Green together on the same screen—quite impossible, but it was the challenge."

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Steal This Story, Please!: "She broke that story, but what was important for her wasn’t “breaking” it. It was that the rest of the media paid attention and it changed the way that narrative was told."

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Say Everything: "Back then, if anyone did anything other than acting—like, God forbid an actor was musical and wanted to put out an album—that was really like, “What?!”

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Crime 101: "The movie is about the haves and the have‑nots, and about the pressure to be “somebody,” this endless pursuit of status and where that can land you."

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Invisible Nation: Why Authoritarians Fear & Target Women and Democracy

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Armed Only With a Camera: "Since Brent was killed, more than 400 journalists have been killed around the world, and as of a few days ago 333 are locked up overseas."

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Come See Me In The Good Light: "They kept saying: “I don’t want people leaving sad. I want to write a love poem to Megan and a love poem to life.”

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All The Empty Rooms: "Not only do we not show shootings or talk about the shooters, we don’t even mention the word “gun.” "

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The Secret Agent: "A country that installs amnesia as an objective is really fascinating. In 1979, the military proposed forgetting everything that had happened until then—all the violence..."

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The Alabama Solution: "A lot of people say there’s no way to understand this without seeing it for yourself. People are starved for information about what’s really happening inside prisons."

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Cutting Through Rocks: "we... mirrored both the production & the person we were following. It was a mirrored journey, & it made us even more determined to tell this story"

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2000 Meters to Andriivka: "War is slowly crawling around us and touching all of us. So the question of how to remain human is the core question of our survival in the modern world."

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Mr. Nobody Against Putin: "what began as a very serious international whistleblowing exercise—and remained that—also... was filled with humor and light"

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The Perfect Neighbor: "that street shows the best and worst of us. We’re in a deeply polarized time, and we’ve been polarized on purpose. Manufactured fear is a tool of authoritarian politics."

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CONGRATULATIONS to 3 superstars: Kaouther Ben Hania & her team on Oscar and BAFTA nominations for 'The Voice of Hind Rajab'; my brother, Andrew Guest, whose new series 'Wonder Man' airs tonight; ...

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Apocalypse In The Tropics: "not only am I scared of losing my democracy & seeing it become an authoritarian government, but a theocratic authoritarian government. That is the shadow hanging not just..

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Sound of Falling: "this is the “unpitchable” film, because it’s about memory itself and how eruptive, associative, and non‑linear memory is."

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Holding Liat: "the guiding light... in telling this story has been to confront fear, because the amount of fear that has been communicated to us throughout this whole process...has not been realized."

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The Voice Of Hind Rajab: "I kept asking myself what it means to be a filmmaker when the unthinkable is happening...I remember the exact feeling—anger, sadness, helplessness. And I hate helplessness."

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Extremist: "Sometimes a work of art can reach people more deeply than a news report or a clip on social media because it gets into their subconscious."

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Invisible Nation: for China to "take (Taiwan), you’d need the largest amphibious invasion in human history...The idea that China can just flip a switch and do this is a fantasy."

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Fun, Live 15 minute radio interview on The Drive with Steve Jaxon