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Two More Film Festivals! One in New Jersey, One in France!

We’ve got great news!! Our documentary will make its U.S. debut at the The Ridgewood Guild International Film Festival, and Jenn’s flying out to  mark the milestone in her home state of New Jersey!!!! 🎉

It will be screened Wednesday night, April 26, at the Bow Tie Cinema (formerly the Warren theater) on Ridgewood Ave.

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A four-year flashback: First Steps Lead to More Steps

“Let’s just get to that next pole. We can rest there,” I tell Lluís, pointing ahead about 200 meters.

It wasn’t a pole. It was a half-constructed, load-bearing concrete substructure designed to support the weight of a road or train tracks being built over our heads. In the +33-degree Celsius (91 degree Fahrenheit) hot, sticky and uncomfortable Thai heat the phrase “load-bearing structure” never entered my mind. At that moment, I was my own load-bearing structure, with about 40 pounds on my back. Words didn’t come easy. That pole, or whatever it was, was my salvation, and so was the one after that, and the one after that.

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