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Gary M. Kramer

BIZARRE: What happens when the staircase ends | Mind Blowing Facts

Margie Ratliff, participant of "The Staircase" Photo by Adriel Gonzalez

What are the responsibilities of a documentary filmmaker to the subject of their film? And why do people participate in documentary films — especially ones that force them to relive their most traumatic experiences? These are two of the many intriguing questions asked in codirector Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall's fantastic, probing, and compassionate documentary, "Subject," which is having its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

The film focuses on five participants whose lives were the basis for influential documentaries and how their lives have been influenced after the cameras stopped rolling. 

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