153: Joyce Chopra on "Lady Director"
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Joyce Chopra broke the glass ceiling for women in film by directing classic works such as the ground-breaking personal documentary "Joyce at 34" and the fiction film "Smooth Talk". Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviews Joyce about her new memoir "Lady Director".
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