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This documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media follows emerging cultural icons – creators who bring insight and originality to their craft – on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines.
Aired: 03/14/23
- [Alejandro Jimenez] Whatever we write, whatever story we want to tell is much bigger than ourselves, even though we might not realize it then.
- [Ethan Lim] I'm a bridge between Cambodia's difficult past and its unwritten culinary future.
- [Lily Gladstone] Acting is something that you really surrender a lot of your life to if you love it and want to do it.
- [Jonathan Thunder] It was almost like through my artwork, I became a productive member of my tribe.
- [Sydney G. James] I paint loud and large.
Even if I'm painting small.
I want you to see me.
(applause) - [Senghor Reid] I do think that we have a responsibility to tell our own stories and not rely on anyone else to create a narrative for who we are and for where we come from.
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