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co-directed the new film “Heaven Knows What.”
Brothers Joshua Safdie and Ben Safdie are independent filmmakers based in New York City, who frequently collaborate.
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'Heaven Knows What' A tough new cinema-veritéfilm opened this past weekend. Heaven Knows What is about a young heroin addict trying to survive on the streets of New York. The film is fiction, but just barely. It stars a young woman named Arielle Holmes, who was homeless and an addict in real life. We hear from the filmmakers who discovered Holmes on the streets when she was 19.
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