162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619

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162: Roger Ross Williams on Donna Summer, "The 1619 Project" and "Cassandro"

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Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams has a bounty of new releases this year. Pure Nonfiction host Thom Powers interviewed Williams at the CPH:DOX festival about three of those works: Love to Love You, Donna Summer on HBO, The 1619 Project on Hulu and his fiction feature debut Cassandro coming this fall from Amazon Studios.

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