The Contestant (2023 film)
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"It was huge concern for me," she says. "I think whenever you make a film, you're always conscious of not wanting to retraumatise your interviewees or contributors, but particularly in this instance, because we're making a film about a TV programme that obviously was very traumatic for Nasubi. And so the way I approached it was that consent was a really important part of this." |
"It was huge concern for me," she says. "I think whenever you make a film, you're always conscious of not wanting to retraumatise your interviewees or contributors, but particularly in this instance, because we're making a film about a TV programme that obviously was very traumatic for Nasubi. And so the way I approached it was that consent was a really important part of this." |
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Titely originally made contact with Nasubi by writing to him via a translator. Titley told Nasubi "I want to collaborate, I want to make it in this way and I want to make it about your story." At Nasubi’s instigation, he came to |
Titely originally made contact with Nasubi by writing to him via a translator. Titley told Nasubi "I want to collaborate, I want to make it in this way and I want to make it about your story." At Nasubi’s instigation, he came to the UK, and then the three of them - Nasubi, Titley and the translator - spent time travelling together in the UK. |
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"We spent a lot of time in the car just talking and unpacking a lot of this story and a lot of the things that he hadn't been asked before, which surprised me, and a lot of things he hadn't unpacked. So that's how the relationship started. It's been a long journey, as all these things are, and I think we're still on it." |
"We spent a lot of time in the car just talking and unpacking a lot of this story and a lot of the things that he hadn't been asked before, which surprised me, and a lot of things he hadn't unpacked. So that's how the relationship started. It's been a long journey, as all these things are, and I think we're still on it." |
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