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Ime N. Etuk

Film producer

Jul 14, 2026

30:36
like what did you take away from it that you saw like this helped these people this impacted these people in this way create opportunities you did this for me like what are you where was that big takeaway yeah that's a
30:45
unique question because usually people asking questions about like the film and the story, but so much what drove me is the question you're asking.
30:54
It was about even funding it.
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I was going to investors like, yo, I'm telling two stories.
30:59
There's a story in front of the camera about this 12-year-old in 1994, Portland, Oregon, living under a tree in Irving Park.
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But he's also a student at Beaumont, has a special pair of neon Deion Sanders patent leather Nike shoes that are like the...
31:16
the blanket, right, that cover the poverty of his shame, or the shame of his poverty, right? He's about to go to camp and be impacted by mentors who are gonna make him realize there's a childhood that he didn't know he could have, right, before he goes back to his previous world.

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