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Are the gadfly director's ambitions for his movie unrealistic? Jesse Drew, who teaches documentary film at the
University of California Davis, argues that documentaries can alter policy and culture. He thinks "Sicko" will amplify the pressure on policymakers to reform health care. "It will open to a
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In 1982, he moved to Paris, France with his wife and child and became involved in media production. Upon returning to the United States in 1984, he joined the nascent video collective Paper Tiger TV, and started a West Coast branch. At the same time, he began working as an electronics technician at
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mass audience," he said, "and it's not going to be lost on politicians. They know that many of their constituents will see these issues raised and there's going to be a link made that they have to deal with some of these issues."
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as a writer, editor and collective member. In 1986, he helped to organize the first public access television network,
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