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Video: The Affected
Passengers and crew on a commercial flight question their ethics when an attempt to stop a deportation occurs on their flight minutes before take-off.
Director: Rikke Gregerson
Running time: 13 minutes
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Rikke Gregersen was born 1994 in Norway. In her filmmaking she works with the combination of humour and tragedy, as she explores human behaviour and relations. Her graduation film Dog eat dog won the special jury prize during the BAFTA student film awards and went on to winning a Student Academy Award. Her second short The Affected won best short at Nordisk panorama, was nominated for the Norwegian film prize Amanda and was selected for the Sundance film festival. She is currently working on developing her first feature film, as well as a new TV series.
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1/6 (a terrible reminder of what could come in November~~)Hi Maria–Thought you might enjoy this 13 minute film.Watch the subtitles, at the end as the credits roll.. Waiting for snow here. They’re saying 8″ to 12″ inches.(I so home they’re wrong!) Susan
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Very impressive short film. May we all strive to be that person who simply stands and says “no”. To do so, knowing that we may be standing alone, requires great courage and a determination to stand by one’s values. But it is only through great courage on the part of both individuals and masses that we can change the world.
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Thank you, Mel. I agree that the one who stands alone against injustice is indispensable. I also like the way the story is told in the film. We never see the protestor, nor do we see the prisoner, nor do we see his guard. Instead, the film focuses on the other people who are affected by the protest: the pilot and co-pilot, the stewards, the inconvenienced passengers… And of course, us, the viewers of the film who are invited to wonder how we would react in this situation.
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Agree, many other filmmakers would likely have made those two the “stars” while this film makes all of us the “stars”.
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