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in 1998 for his collaboration

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a CSC Award nomina¬
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Montreal, where he and his fellow
students were expected to

direct their
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knew from the very beginning that I
wanted

do

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of the students

were

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and I

After

he

finished

Freeman worked for
an

able to shoot

was

number of student films."

assistant

was not

short time

a

as

"which I

cameraman,

very

school,

good at," he confesses.

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director, Ernest Dickerson, ASC, on

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the

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Award nomination is
honor

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as

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