Cinema DNA
White Material
2 films
Films that shaped it
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She often cites Jean Rouch as an inspiration. 'I worked for him as an assistant,' she explains. 'He taught me everything about how to engage with people on camera. The Lion Hunters is a masterpiece of that kind of direct engagement and collaborative storytelling. It taught me the ethics of filmmaking.'
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Rouch taught me to look at people, not to be shy about filming them, to respect their presence, their intelligence, their ability to transform themselves... His films, like Jaguar and Little by Little, they showed me that cinema can be about shared experience, about revealing humanity.
