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Podcast: Documentary First: Conversations on Documentary Filmmaking · Christian Taylor | Documentary First

Opublikowano: 2026-07-16

How do you make people care about your documentary? Facts alone rarely make an audience care. The emotional core of a documentary lives somewhere else. In this episode of Documentary First, filmmaker Christian Taylor tells the story of how she found the heartbeat her film about the Battle of Carentan was missing. It was not in the archives. It was in the memories of a man who was six years old when the war came for his town. For months, Christian’s film Heroes of Carentan felt stuck in wh...