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Atom Egoyan on Why Actors in a Feature Beat Real People in a Documentary

MEDIA Posted: January 24, 2014 12:31 am

“In the documentaries [about the West Memphis Three] many of the characters implicate themselves by virtue of the fact that they’re performing for a documentary camera … And I felt that dramatically, using professional actors you could actually achieve a degree of naturalism that maybe in a documentary [you can’t, because] there’s always an agenda.” (audio)

MEDIA Published: 01.23.14

Read the story in CBC Published: 01.23.14

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