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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    Saving Kodak

    A group of high-profile filmmakers and cinematographers are banding together to keep Kodak’s motion picture film division afloat.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 5, 2014 • 1 min read

    A group of high-profile filmmakers and cinematographers are banding together to keep Kodak’s motion picture film division afloat. Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan, JJ Abrams and some other big Hollywood directors are asking film studios to guarantee that they will buy a minimum amount of Kodak film in order to keep the plant that manufactures the film open.

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    Doing Business in Africa, Saving Kodak and Indie Sci-Fi
    1. 0:00Africa Reality Check
    2. 7:58Doing Business in Africa
    3. 15:55Saving KodakYou’re reading this
    4. 25:46Wine and the Drought
    5. 31:04Shadows in the Vineyard
    6. 40:59Indie Sci-fi
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      Madeleine Brand

      Host, 'Press Play'

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      Andrew Walsh

      Too Beautiful to Live

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      Christian Bordal

      Managing Producer, Greater LA

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      Matt Holzman

      Producer, 'The Document'

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      Robert Richardson

      Cinematographer who has worked with Quentin Tarantino, Martin Scorsese and Oliver Stone.

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    The full episode

    3 of 6
    Doing Business in Africa, Saving Kodak and Indie Sci-Fi
    1. 0:00Africa Reality Check
    2. 7:58Doing Business in Africa
    3. 15:55Saving KodakYou’re reading this
    4. 25:46Wine and the Drought
    5. 31:04Shadows in the Vineyard
    6. 40:59Indie Sci-fi
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