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TJ Benson moderates the documentary panel, which has Ummi Bakar, director of Uprooted, Amaka Vanni, co-director of Beyond Tolerance and Ronke Adeola, director of Awani. For an hour, they explore the rising popularity of the documentary genre, the subject of identity and complication of stereotypes as explored by all three directors and reception of their work.<\/p>\n
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Ummi states that she wanted to make a film about the northeast that went beyond the sad stories, which showed some sort of silver-lining and this was the main challenge in making the documentary. Getting the people to talk was not too hard as they had been through a traumatic event with no one to talk to and were glad to have listening ears. Most of them weren\u2019t aware of this silver-lining, until they started talking, especially about the presence of their husbands at home and distribution of domestic work as a result of curfew.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n