#79: Nanfu Wang’s Brave COVID Doc Draws Dramatic Parallels

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“Finding people who praise the government is easy. Finding people who are critical of the government is easy. What is the most difficult is convincing some people who are ordinary citizens who have information to come out and speak up. ” --- director and producer Nanfu Wang

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