people to take that step and present themselves in front of the camera. Not everybody is an extravert. So, that is a big obstacle. The other one is to go into other cultural realms. Japan, for example. I have several friends from Japan. Some of them have declined to be in the show because they are very private. Others, I have communication issues. They are fans of mine. I’m a fan of theirs, but we haven’t really communicated what I want from them. I have a guy from Turkey, which is fascinating to me. So I am trying to get into the Middle East, maybe, and see what is happening over there. I have done some stuff with the “Kansas to Cairo” project, but I want to do this under the umbrella of the Drax Files as well. I want to have African Americans. I have three scheduled. I want the different ages – all this stuff. I want to create this mosaic. That’s the reason or the decision that I make. It’s important to find who has a compelling story. I do believe that everybody has a compelling story. But, it’s also a matter of how can they present that story. These mini-‐documentaries are very labor intensive because they are based on, sometimes, a two-‐hour conversation. From that conversation I can glean who that person is. Then, I whittle it down to the essence and put it together. But it is very important
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