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“I learn more about how to run a set teaching six-year-olds. You go into a classroom as a teacher, and the most important work you do is create an infrastructure and an environment that's safe, in which children will feel able and free to take risk. Working with actors, you have to establish the same thing. Teaching a class is not so different than mounting a production.”

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Matthew Porterfield

Matthew Porterfield, born on October 6, 1977, is an acclaimed American filmmaker known for his unique storytelling and focus on the marginalized groups in American society. more

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