Letter to the Editor (USA, 88 min.) Dir. Alan Berliner Programme:Β TIFFΒ Docs (World Premiere) Alan Berliner dubs himself a βcultural anthropologist,β a fitting term for a filmmaker fascinated by the way media reflects
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