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Cost Should Never Be An Excuse – the $1.99 App used to complete Oscar nominated film!

February 27, 2013 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Check out this video (it starts after the advert at the beginning). It’s interesting because the film maker Malik Bendjelloul discusses how when he was making his documentary film “Searching for Sugar Man” he ran out of money and thought he was going to have to abandon his project because he couldn’t afford to continue shooting […]

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