![]() So I took the plunge in college and then graduate school, and never looked back. As I matured, and began to search for a way to express this desire, writing for film became the most obvious tool.Ĭinema has a history of crossing cultural boundaries (just look at the films produced after WWII by the Italians, which featured actors from France, Britain, Germany, and Italy - all in the same film). The desire to communicate - and in particular to communicate across cultural barriers - was thus instilled in me from an early age. Traveling this way also led me to learn several languages, which at the time, I was able to speak with some fluency! I kept copious diaries of our travels, as I was aware that my exposure to these parts of the world was unusual at best, heretical at worst (in some parts of the U.S.). The experience gave me an opportunity to encounter other places and people in a way that was non-judgmental. ![]() ![]() I was lucky enough to travel extensively as a child, to places which, at the time were considered nearly taboo: the USSR in 1972, West Africa in 1974, and the People’s Republic of China in 1978, to name a few. ![]()
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