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When I participated in the London Film School’s Directors’ Workshop, we watched part of the 1996 film Secrets and Lies as an example for a combination of urban cinematography and strong narrative writing.

The film follows a young woman and her biological mother as they cope with the changes wrought by the former’s decision to find her birth family

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