

The Lens Within Me
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A film student from Long Island, who cut his dying father’s cough out of the home movies at thirteen, spends four years filming everyone but himself — until one festival slot, a rival’s film, and the footage he’s been cutting force him to choose between the safe version and the true one.
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- Max Hechtman
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- Hechtman Filmworks
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- United States of America
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