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The Risk in Documentary Filmmaking
Max Allan: I tried to find some big event that could kind of be the hook that everything hung on. And then the second thing that happens with documentary filmmakers, or that you want to happen is that this show got massively shut down by the Chinese police and the North Korean government. It was this big thing, which created tension and payoff that I wouldn't have had otherwise. He says it's a combination of being smart enough from his last experience of making a doc to know, okay, I've got to have like a skeleton.
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