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Kathleen Bertrand Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest, So I'm about to bring up on
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  Speaker 1: my first guest on the show is a dear friend
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  Speaker 1: in the entertainment business. Um. Wow, she's interviewed me the
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  Speaker 1: first time I'm actually interviewing her. I've been on her panels.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a great relationship over the years, sinciety, when
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  Speaker 1: I first brought the Neighborhood Awards to Atlanta, Georgia back
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  Speaker 1: in when we first really really started establishing our relationship.
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  Speaker 1: My next guest is the founder of the Bronze Lens
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  Speaker 1: Film Festival of Atlanta, Georgia, is a nonprofit organization founded
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  Speaker 1: in two thousand nine that is dedicated to bring in
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  Speaker 1: national and worldwide attention to Atlanta as a center for
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  Speaker 1: film and film production for people of color. She has
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  Speaker 1: received the Spiritual Enlightenment Award from the Trumpets Awards and
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  Speaker 1: was honored at P and C Bank celebrates Atlanta's African
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  Speaker 1: American creative community. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation. Kathleen Bertrand,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, Good morning, my friend. How you doing. Wonder
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  Speaker 1: so good to hear your boy to be talking to you.
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  Speaker 1: Ushaw one of my favorite people in the whole world. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that we've we've I've been fortunate to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of your film festival. I believe I just
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  Speaker 1: recently were there with Miss Guy to Behavior, which was
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  Speaker 1: Greed at your film festival. I did that with Sharon Thomlinson,
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  Speaker 1: a really great project to receive a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: reviews and responses, very emotional about bullying in school and
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  Speaker 1: that's a big topic. And then I also I believe
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  Speaker 1: I had Steve Harvey's uh stand up piece that we
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  Speaker 1: shot at Las Vegas. Yeah. Yeah, allowed us to present
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  Speaker 1: that at a special midnight screening that was at the
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  Speaker 1: absolutely and so my relationship is one of trust, and
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  Speaker 1: so having you on the show today means that uh,
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  Speaker 1: trying to tell people to be successful in anything, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have relationships, and you have to have people
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  Speaker 1: that believe in your brand want to help you promote
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  Speaker 1: your brain. And that's what we only show the day
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  Speaker 1: to help you promote your brain. I love it, Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: So tell two nine it's just an idea. We only
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  Speaker 1: have ideas. How did your idea come to? I guess
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  Speaker 1: a reality? UM, A lot of hard work, UM, calling
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  Speaker 1: on friends, relationship with the one, and calling on persons
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  Speaker 1: that had been previous sponsors for other things. I do
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  Speaker 1: relationship level two. So let me just explain. I used
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  Speaker 1: to work for the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, and
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  Speaker 1: it was in my role as Senior vice president of
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  Speaker 1: Community and Government Affairs there that Bronze Lenn started with
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  Speaker 1: an idea from my CEO, who said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta doesn't really have anything in black film film festivals
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  Speaker 1: that really draw national attention. And I said, well, there's
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  Speaker 1: several local things going on. He says, no, but you
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  Speaker 1: know this national. Now, we need national attention because Tyler
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  Speaker 1: Perry has a studio here. That's what he would always say.
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  Speaker 1: And so I spent about that was actually in the
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  Speaker 1: late two thousand and eight. So two thousand nine was
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  Speaker 1: about research and finding out what was in the market, um,
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  Speaker 1: who was in the market, what was national that's going
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  Speaker 1: on in this realm of of black cinema, and then
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  Speaker 1: calling on people that I knew. So I started calling
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  Speaker 1: on my friend Cheryl Grippler, who was vice president at
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  Speaker 1: Community Affairs at at Channel eleven w x I, a
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  Speaker 1: t V Atlanta, and after a few meetings with Cheryl,
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  Speaker 1: she eventually called on Didre McDonald Um, who was also
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  Speaker 1: at Channel eleven at one time and she was an
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  Speaker 1: instructor at Clark Atlanta University, had an Emmy in television,
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  Speaker 1: and UH had that production and film background, and single
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  Speaker 1: they became with me the three legs of the stool
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  Speaker 1: that held up ron Lenz and got us on rolling UM.
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  Speaker 1: The great thing about having Sheryl on board and and
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  Speaker 1: and me as well as that we had great corporate
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  Speaker 1: relationships from our work and the jobs that we did,
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  Speaker 1: and so we started calling on those people. And when
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you that we had major sponsors that
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  Speaker 1: gave to us that year strictly because they knew our
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  Speaker 1: work and our work ethics. We had no god to
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  Speaker 1: say this is what it looked like last year. We
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  Speaker 1: had no UH film video to say, you know, here's
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  Speaker 1: how great at what nothing. We only had a PowerPoint
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  Speaker 1: presentation and our word And when you talk about marketing, UM,
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  Speaker 1: I made sure that our graphics looked like we've been
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  Speaker 1: here ten years. And you know what I'm saying, because
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  Speaker 1: when you walk in the door, it's got all of
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  Speaker 1: the be all about the professionalism of what it is
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  Speaker 1: that you're representing. But when I say that I had
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  Speaker 1: sponsors that came on that year, and some of them
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  Speaker 1: are still with me based strictly on relationships. So that's
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  Speaker 1: very important, having honest, authentic relationships with people that you
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  Speaker 1: do business with as well as with your friends. And
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  Speaker 1: that's important. That's important that you say that. And also
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  Speaker 1: in presentation wise, you know, pictures that look stretched, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just because it looks good on a screen, know that
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  Speaker 1: you might walk in some of these rooms and you
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  Speaker 1: might be on a sixty X treme off and that
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  Speaker 1: pictures real blurry, real fast. And so what you also
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  Speaker 1: can make people they might not comment while in front
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  Speaker 1: of you, but they walk out there and saying that
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  Speaker 1: sloppy or that was that was cheesy, exactly exactly. And
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  Speaker 1: so what my years, um, and you know that that
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  Speaker 1: job taught me was the power of a good presentation,
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  Speaker 1: right right, right right. I had one of so many
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  Speaker 1: times before, but really, um, and even in my career
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  Speaker 1: as a singer, when I put out my first CD,
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  Speaker 1: uh and I had it designed, I said, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: it to look like anything that could sit on the
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  Speaker 1: record store shelf back then next to Nancy Wilson or
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  Speaker 1: next to the Sander Wilson or any of those great people,
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  Speaker 1: Diane reads, those people that I've followed, and do you
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  Speaker 1: know what, That's exactly what happened when my first CD
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  Speaker 1: came out. They did not put it in the the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta section. They put it in the Jazz section with
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  Speaker 1: all the other national honorts because that's what they thought
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  Speaker 1: I was because it looked like it, you know, show
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  Speaker 1: and tail, and you showed, and they and they allowed
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  Speaker 1: to believe that this is a higher level or the
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  Speaker 1: higher level quality, all right. And that's why that's how
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  Speaker 1: it really works in this business, is your presentation and
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  Speaker 1: how you put the effort. It's by the effort, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what you're talking about it right there now,
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nine, and you're coming up on your tenth anniversary.
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  Speaker 1: So so we want we're going to wrap this segment
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  Speaker 1: up here because I want to save time for the
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  Speaker 1: next break. We're go in detail because you know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a little jealous because you know, I didn't have an
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  Speaker 1: award show, and so you're have an awards you I
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  Speaker 1: have Rodney Perry, your host on on my show last
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  Speaker 1: week promoting everything, and you got comedian Jonathan's logan. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk about all these people. Oh, I said, I was,
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  Speaker 1: I said, I was sad to be a participant, But
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  Speaker 1: you you upgraded the game here, Mrs Dethlete. You know
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  Speaker 1: your sponsors gotta be happy when you talk about the
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  Speaker 1: award show and everything. But that's what you're doing ten
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  Speaker 1: years though, That's what you doing ten years. I'm gone.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in the room with her team, eating launches,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking ideas. So she knows how how happy happy
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  Speaker 1: I am because I walked in and she's can you
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  Speaker 1: come by? And come by? I think tank and I'm
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  Speaker 1: part of that process with her because I love seeing
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  Speaker 1: people with an idea start work hard for the idea
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  Speaker 1: and then help them get to the next level with
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  Speaker 1: that idea. And that's what she's doing with Bronze Lands.
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  Speaker 1: We'll come back. We're gonna continuous conversation with the founder
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  Speaker 1: of Bronze Lands. The tenure anniversary is happening. She's got
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  Speaker 1: a great film that she's airing. An Oscar winning actor
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be appearing. Don't go nowhere. This money made
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  Speaker 1: a conversation. You listening to ra Sean McDonald. This is
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  Speaker 1: how we do it here, big time, big money, big people. Hi,
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  Speaker 1: this Ra Sean McDonald, you're back, I'm back, or you're back,
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  Speaker 1: or we're all back together listening to money making conversations.
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  Speaker 1: I have the founder of the Bronze Lands Film Foundation
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  Speaker 1: that was found in the two thousand nine and this
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  Speaker 1: year celebrating the tenth anniversary of Bronze Lands on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: it is Kathleen. Kathleen. This Saturday, you have the tenth
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  Speaker 1: annual Bronze Lands Award Show, hosted by comedian actor Rodney Perry,
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  Speaker 1: and on the red carpet, comedian Jonathan Slocum tell us
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  Speaker 1: the whole concept. Why an award show this year? Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about it? Well, we've actually had an awards show,
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  Speaker 1: Rashawn for nine of our ten years. The first year, um,
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  Speaker 1: we did our awards show at a club and and
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  Speaker 1: we name the winners and called people up. Um, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. But by that second year, we
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  Speaker 1: knew we had something special and we needed to honor
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  Speaker 1: these people in in the in the correct setting. But
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  Speaker 1: it has really he's grown every every year since we've
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  Speaker 1: been at dad show. We've been at the High Museum
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  Speaker 1: and this year we're at the Carter Center in the
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  Speaker 1: day Auditorium and uh, just so tremendously excited about it
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  Speaker 1: because it's a concept this year that I've wanted since
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  Speaker 1: we started, which was to have that kind of setting,
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the SAG Awards, where there's some tables
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  Speaker 1: that are you know, people are sitting around the tables,
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  Speaker 1: and then there are others where their seats around them,
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  Speaker 1: and so we actually will have that kind of look
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  Speaker 1: to the awards this year. And you started off with
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  Speaker 1: our filmmakers arriving and getting a chance to encounter Jonathan Slocum.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's such a funny guy, good friend
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  Speaker 1: originally flum Atlanta and a friend of ours for many years.
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  Speaker 1: And when our filmmakers arrive on the on the bronze carpet,
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  Speaker 1: we make them feel special that this is your night,
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  Speaker 1: and h our videography team and our social media team
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  Speaker 1: as they're taking their pictures and recording it for social media.
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  Speaker 1: And then they go in and we will announce over
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  Speaker 1: the course of the night the winner of the Best Feature,
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  Speaker 1: the winner of the Best Short. By the way, the
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  Speaker 1: winner of the Best Short award will have the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to apply to the Oscars to be in their short
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  Speaker 1: film competition. Because Bronze Lens is now an Oscar qualifying
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  Speaker 1: film festival for the Short Film Award, we will also
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  Speaker 1: announce the best dr Now let's let's let's not go
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  Speaker 1: past that real fast, Kathleen, Kathleen, let's you know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's why you have people were shot to slowdown when
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  Speaker 1: you say great things. Okay, we're Oscar qualifying now, people
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  Speaker 1: need to hear that. Yes, so we are. We are
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  Speaker 1: our third year as a qualifying film festival with a
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  Speaker 1: short Film award, and actually the Bronze Lens a short
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  Speaker 1: film winner last year made it into the short list
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  Speaker 1: for the Oscars Short Film Award. This past year they
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  Speaker 1: made it into the top ten out of one d
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  Speaker 1: and forty entries from around the country. So we were
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  Speaker 1: very excited about that filmmaker and we're hopefully hopefully this
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  Speaker 1: year our winner will will go just as far. Because
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  Speaker 1: that's that's that's beautiful, because it's like letting people know
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  Speaker 1: that they have because everybody wants to know how they
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  Speaker 1: can participate, how they can get in, how they can
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  Speaker 1: get their their talents showcase. And you're telling them right now,
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  Speaker 1: if you have a short film, you can enter into
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  Speaker 1: Bronze Lens Film Festival, and if you win, you qualified
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  Speaker 1: to be on the OSCAR list. You can qualify to
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  Speaker 1: submit to the because that's the only way you can
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  Speaker 1: get on it. You can't just well, I want to
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  Speaker 1: send myself if you have to come to one of
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  Speaker 1: the one of the approved portals, which Bronze Lens is
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  Speaker 1: one of those, one of only two in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Georgia. So this is happening Saturday, August twenty four
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  Speaker 1: and hosted by Rodney Perry. Good funny guy, very good actor.
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  Speaker 1: You know. So you've got comedy on the red carpet
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  Speaker 1: and you've got comedy on your stage, so you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: so you're gonna keep everything moving along with energy, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. And we want everybody to feel good.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the awards is the culmination of all the
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  Speaker 1: work that a filmmaker has done to even submit. They
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  Speaker 1: may have submitted as early as last November, and then
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  Speaker 1: they got past the initial screening and made it to
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  Speaker 1: the official selections list and they got passed back to
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  Speaker 1: make it to the being a nominee. So this is
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  Speaker 1: the culmination of their Bronze Lens experiences to come to
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  Speaker 1: the Bronze Lens Awards, and we are being dressed uh
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  Speaker 1: African sheep in black time. So somebody's going to be
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  Speaker 1: very elegant, you know here and that's right, that's right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's the elegance in the in the cachet of talent
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  Speaker 1: just keeps growing. Regina Hall. A conversation with Regina Hall again.
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  Speaker 1: He has comedian host Kim Cole's comedian Mira J from
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  Speaker 1: from the Agent, from the from the Tom join the
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show. Very talent writer comedian Mira j and Kim
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  Speaker 1: Cole again more levity, more energy. Uh, tell us about
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  Speaker 1: the conversation with Regina. That's happening on Friday, auguste. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: On Friday there we will have the Women's Superstars Luncheon.
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  Speaker 1: This is our signature events for the festival. It's a
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  Speaker 1: fundraiser for us and every year. In addition to having
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  Speaker 1: a group of amazing honorees like Ava Duvernet or Lynn
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  Speaker 1: Woodfield or Margaret Avery, who've all been honored by Bronze
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  Speaker 1: Lends in the past, we also started about three years
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  Speaker 1: ago a conversation with one of those persons that we
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  Speaker 1: thought could really pique the interest of the audience, and
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  Speaker 1: so this year. It is m Regina Hall, most recently
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  Speaker 1: of Little and we just have loved her for many years.
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  Speaker 1: She actually came to Bronze Lens back in twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: or when we showed Best Man Holiday as our closing sound.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget that. My two movies, my two movies Thinking
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  Speaker 1: Like a Man, Thinking Like Aunt too. Yeah, that's right, thought,
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  Speaker 1: my love accomplishments under the She's talented. She's one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite people. I was just living everybod I know,
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  Speaker 1: her resume is extensive. You know she's been Uh she's
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  Speaker 1: at the forefront of what I think. Uh, just just
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  Speaker 1: just seeing her talent and just natural. She's you know,
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  Speaker 1: talk shows with me. I brought out on this guests
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  Speaker 1: and to have a conversation with her. Anybody who's interested
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  Speaker 1: in the business, you should go because it's about longevity,
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  Speaker 1: it's about showing the versatility and and and her acting portfolio.
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  Speaker 1: It's what she's gonna just what's gonna be revealed. That's
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  Speaker 1: Regina Hall. I had a twice in two of my
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  Speaker 1: movies that was based on Steve Harvey's book Act Like
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  Speaker 1: a Lady, Think Like a Man and worldwide solo with
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  Speaker 1: two hundred million dollars at the box office. That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even realize your numbers were like that. Come on, man,
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  Speaker 1: come on man, you know we bun Land. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with success. You're celebrating ten years because of the relationship.
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  Speaker 1: That's why you're out there at the forefront of being
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  Speaker 1: able to promote of uh, you know, projects of people
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  Speaker 1: of color getting there, to get the ideas out there,
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  Speaker 1: because if we carry a major value at the box office.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people know that African American or minorities watch TV,
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  Speaker 1: but at the box office, we are a force. Because
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  Speaker 1: when you go to these box office mojo or deadlines,
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  Speaker 1: they breakdown the percentage of people uh ethnicity. They go
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  Speaker 1: to movies they said like was afri Caucasian white, or
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  Speaker 1: they said thirty was African Americans. So they do play up.
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  Speaker 1: They do understand the value of who watches certain types
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  Speaker 1: of movies, and that's why it's important. What you're doing
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  Speaker 1: is amazing and so Regina Hall is on Thursday. On Friday,
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  Speaker 1: August twenty thirties, Women's Superstars launching It's a big fund
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  Speaker 1: raiser for you. On on Saturdays, the tent annual Bronze Leans,
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  Speaker 1: a war show hosted by my Man Rodney pair with
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  Speaker 1: Johnathan Slogan on the red carpet. Then on Wednesday, I
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  Speaker 1: will be there opening knife film Don't Let Go. Tell
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  Speaker 1: us about the Oscar winner that will be there. Well,
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  Speaker 1: David or Yellow will be with us for his brand
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  Speaker 1: new film which has not been in the theaters yet.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a an Atlanta premier of Don't Let Go,
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  Speaker 1: co stars David and also Storm Read the young lady
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  Speaker 1: that was the lead in Ava du burn as a
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  Speaker 1: Wrinkle in Time. And we're so excited to have this
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to open up the festival with a studio film.
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  Speaker 1: Every now and then we get we kind of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the stars aligne and we get a chance to open
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  Speaker 1: with a studio film, and so this is that film
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  Speaker 1: for us, will be at Landmarks Midtown Theater and we're
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  Speaker 1: just very excited because having a star like David who
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  Speaker 1: has done so much work, and he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: receiving an award from Bronze Lens, our trail Blazer Award
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  Speaker 1: to honor his path as a classically trained actor who
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  Speaker 1: has just done so much and inspired so many of
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  Speaker 1: us with his career choices. Um, so we want every
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  Speaker 1: we wanted to come out. You can go to our
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  Speaker 1: website and get information about it, but certainly want to
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  Speaker 1: pack the house for David and for our Bronze Lens
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  Speaker 1: opening night when we kick off. So you only three
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  Speaker 1: three social media banners. One for the opening night which
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  Speaker 1: is uh, don't let go, and then on the Friday
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  Speaker 1: that's Wednesday. Then on Friday the Women's Superstar launching Okay
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  Speaker 1: Regina Hall, and then on Saturday the actual Bronze Land
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  Speaker 1: Award show celebrating ten years of film success. In that,
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  Speaker 1: I guess we have to see nationwide and in the
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta community, and that's employed nationwide. Do you know I
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  Speaker 1: had had films to be submitted from Bronze Lens from
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  Speaker 1: thirty five countries this year than Justini Atlanta. But my friend,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for coming on the show.
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  Speaker 1: You owe me, So I gotta get busy socially and
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  Speaker 1: good luck and you'll see me on Wednesday at your
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  Speaker 1: opening night