“I think storytelling is really our hope because there is such divisiveness right now in the world. And, I think that stories enable us to hear each other and see different sides of an experience,”…
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“I recently founded the climate emergency fund with Aileen Getty and Trevor Neilson with the idea we wanted to create a fund that would support activists,” Kennedy continued. “These activists, these young people who are striking, walking out of their schools, taking to the streets are really our greatest hope to actually affect [climate] change and to get the message to policy makers that they actually need to do something about it.
“‘El Norte’ helped change the laws of the country in terms of the United States granting protected status for refugees from Central America,” Nava recalled. “The Academy was part of all that. It changed my life. So I have to say that the Academy was very very important to me when I was a young filmmaker. So it is a great honor for me to give back and to be here.”
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