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How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them?
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How do documentary producers and artists address the most common issues in the news and shed new light on them?
Through creativity, a keen ear for what's been left out of the dialogue, and a passionate desire to keep an issue in the forefront of the public mind.
Moderator Dmae Roberts guides multi-media artist damali ayo and producers Ahri Birnbaum, Jonathan Mitchell, and Sandy Tolan through a discussion about rising to the challenge and how listeners have responded to productions focusing on such topics as abortion, the Mid-East conflict, and issues of race.
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Ahri Birnbaum served as co-executive producer of Shades of Gray, a one-hour documentary about the many truths inside the abortion issue in America. She is the former senior producer of PRI's Beyond Computers, a weekly program that intersected technology and culture.
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Damali Ayo's award-winning work has been shown at galleries across the world. She speaks to colleges, high schools, non-profits and communities in the U.S. and Canada about race, art, and eco-living. Damali and her work have been featured in over 100 publications worldwide including Harper's, the Village Voice, Salon, and CSPAN2's Book TV. Damali's book, How to Rent a Negro was granted a 2005 Honorable Mention in the Outstanding Book Awards from the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. Her radio work Living Flag: Panhandling for Reparations won a Silver Reel award from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters.
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Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody Award-winning radio artist and writer who has created groundbreaking personal, multicultural documentaries.
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Jonathan Mitchell (@TheTruthFiction) is the creator and producer of The Truth, a Radiotopia podcast that makes short films without pictures.
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Sandy Tolan is the author of two books: Me and Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-Five Years Later and The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East.