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‘The Story Won’t Die’ Director and Artists Talk Art, Activism, and Audience (EXCLUSIVE)

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Jennie Punter “The Story Won’t Die” director David Henry Gerson wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for the United States welcoming refugees—specifically, his Uzbekistan-born father, the son of Holocaust survivors—after World War II.Exploring the ways people process traumas of the past is in his filmmaker DNA, he admits.“When I heard that the crisis in Syria was the largest displacement of people on the planet since World War II, something told me I had to pay attention to this,” said Gerson during an extended post-screening panel, screened exclusively for Variety in advance of his film’s world premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs festival.“The Story Won’t Die” intertwines the stories of nine Syrian artists active during their country’s uprising in.

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