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all right Alan tell me about exhibiting
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forgiveness okay so exhibiting
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forgiveness is in theaters now it uh is
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one of the films that played at Sundance
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um and by the title you can figure out
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what the theme is it's forgiveness but
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uh Terell is a is an artist who is
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haunted by his painful past uh mostly uh
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a lot of trauma that occurred in his
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family and especially with his father
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who is uh today a homeless and a drug
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addict and so he is uh constantly waking
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up with nightmares with stress about an
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upcoming uh Art Exhibit that he's he's
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uh supposed to put on and uh he's he
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finds himself with Creator block and a
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lot of it has to do with his childhood
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his his growing up and uh it is
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basically his journey to find
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forgiveness especially for uh his father
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who uh who is who is himself struggling
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still struggling with drug addiction and
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uh who is looking to uh better himself
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to get rehab to to uh to recover um and
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it is this kind of cat and mouse between
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Father and Son as they uh as they seek
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forgiveness um I'll say this
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uh two things about the film one a
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forgiveness is a topic that is not in
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the minds of the nation and I think or
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in the the national conversation and um
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I honestly ly believe that forgiveness
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is the the one thing that can heal uh
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the world altogether because we you know
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cancel culture is exactly about you know
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attacking one another uh it's not about
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allowing people to uh to to let people
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forgive people of their past to not hold
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on to grudges uh to not always look for
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faults in people but to recognize that
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we're all imperfect people and that's
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what this movie does it just recognizes
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that we are imperfect people that we
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have been hurt in the past and one of
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the major steps to growing and maturing
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as a human being is to uh is to explore
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our past understand our past and forgive
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those who have hurt us and so uh the
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other thing I like about this movie is
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this subject uh based on the poster you
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might think it's about social justice
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and reparations but it really is about
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uh Being Human uh so it is not uh there
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are woke elements but this is not a woke
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story um and it you know ultimately it
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tries to do a good thing um and that's
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to bet ourselves forgive people uh don't
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hold on to grudges and move on with life
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um I will say we could talk about the
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film now but I do want to talk about
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Sundance which is where this came from
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but uh you know this one I will give it
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a a recommendation I don't think it's
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the greatest movie ever but I think
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there's enough to connect with to make
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uh to make the story interesting um but
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I but it is a very indie film and it
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feels like an indie film uh there's not
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a lot of production value here except
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artwork well um so you give it a bare
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recommend I give it a recommend uh but
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not I would like to give it an
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enthusiastic and I can't do that okay
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let's go to comments here well actually
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you wanna let's let's do comments but I
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do want to talk about Sundance uh talk
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about Sundance go to comments Sor okay
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so Sundance is approaching us I got the
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invitation I not yet filled out the
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invitation because Sundance is uh you
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know it's in trouble a bit um but uh the
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reason I want to bring this up is I semi
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attended the last uh Sundance Film
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Festival uh did it online uh didn't have
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access to a lot of things this is one of
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the movies that I did see at at Sundance
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but uh I was looking at it and Sundance
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from 2024 back in January these are the
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films that came out of Sundance that
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um a real pain which is premiering soon
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I'm sorry coming to theater soon uh love
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me which I've not seen But star Steven
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Yun the outrun we uh we reviewed two
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weeks ago and Steven soderberg's
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presence these are the major films that
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came out from Sundance back in January
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an entire film festival one of the top
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film festivals and uh you know we've
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talked about it over time but uh
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Sundance is slowly becoming irrelevant
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to the point now where it's like I'm I
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almost forgot to apply for Sundance this
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year because a I know we're not going
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because we because the costs don't
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justify the benefits and B uh the online
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feature the to for me to do it virtually
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uh I'm only able to see a limited number
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of films this year and so it's almost
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going to be as if we're not covering
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year Well we will cover it in The
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Limited you know virtually but Sundance
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isn't the significant Discovery Festival
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it used to be it just isn't and I do
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believe that they've leaned so much into
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one side of the political aisle that um
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they they've gone the extreme that way
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and that means they only Champion
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certain types of movies and um I I don't
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know like I really did not wasn't
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excited about this I know what coming to
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theaters I had a chance to see it um I'm
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glad you did but yeah this is my
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enthusiasm for what Sundance used to be
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is now gone and by the way they are
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moving Sundance from Park City to some
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other City yeah well they are they are
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they are exploring their options but
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Park city is still in the mix let's put
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that right so they've got all these
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other cities they're getting bids on so
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um Atlanta was was one of them I don't
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know if it's still in contention but um
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it's sad to see but I feel that they
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have the kind of risks that they used to
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take are they're not taking and um it's
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sad it's sad they're really and even
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film festivals overall for independent
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filmmakers are less important part of
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the equation they help for sure don't
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get me wrong but you can you can there
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are tools that's why go to our
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interviews channel to watch there are
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tools where you can get your movie out
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there without having to be vetted by a
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festival so yeah mild
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recommendation yeah but but it again is
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just the you know this is one of the few
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films that have has found uh major
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theatrical release coming out of
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Sundance and uh yeah there you go
