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" I barely speak Spanish. "
Matthew Heineman
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Spanish
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" Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting. "
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" I landed a job at HBO, working for two years on the 'The Alzheimer's Project,' which aired in May 2009. I was fortunate to work with a great mentor, producer John Hoffman, and the amazing doc filmmaker Susan Froemke. "
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" My favorite way of making films - and what has allowed me to get key scenes in 'Cartel Land' and 'City of Ghosts' - has been when I've been able to operate alone. "
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" The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less. "
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Being
" The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns. "
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" I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material. "
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" I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important. "
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Think
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" It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?' "
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" 'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world. "
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Corruption
Law
Society
" You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily. "
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Battle
Idea
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" I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind. "
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Start
Out
" We as a society need to become healthier. "
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Society
Need
Become
" I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story. "
Matthew Heineman
Almost
Happening
Reading
" We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined. "
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Quality
Tests
Rest
" In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what? "
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Care
Need
Medical
" Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos. "
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America
Different
Just
" Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions. "
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Everyone
Health
Race
" I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family. "
Matthew Heineman
Part
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Family
" If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see. "
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Conflict
Understand
You
" I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just as a military force but as an idea. "
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Think
Community
Society
" We have this fascination that more is better, and we - what we learned was more isn't better ; that more care can actually hurt you. That fascination with the quick fix is often hurting us. One-third of health-care spending doesn't even improve health care. "
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Health
Better
Care
" There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon. "
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Border
Motivations
Part
" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "
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Government
Fail
Own
" With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape with their ability to spend time with their stories and subjects. "
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Void
Media
Time
" The story of everyday people rising up to fight against evil to protect their families - it's a story that we've seen play out throughout history and across the world today. "
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Evil
Today
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" We have a disease care system, not a health care system. "
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Health
Disease
Care
" What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention. "
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Need
Way
Transition
" We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed. "
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Guns
Never
Land
" My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border. "
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Story
Both Sides
Create