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Laura Haim

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  1. “The unity of the United States at this particular moment, which I found extremely moving, and I became conscious. Very patriotic about the best values in America and the unless possibilities, but I saw in New York during nine eleven. The best of people. I was very moved by that.”

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  2. “You say all of us Decided to become American. Yeah, it was in my mind, but I really wanted at this time to shift big time. And I decided to...”

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  3. “Yeah, I have a very, I wrote a book about that, so I'm going to try to be quick telling you the story. I was doing a story about gang violence in Miami. And then I was supposed to fly back on. Of September and I decided to fly back on nine eleven in the morning. My apartment was three blocks away from the World Trade Center, so I was in a plan on nine eleven landing in New York, it was 8.30 because I took my plane at 6 o'clock in the morning. And it has a huge impact of me because basically I know people who were there. My neighbor was destroyed. I really saw something of course like all of us, Americans, that I never saw before. And I became very American there.”

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  4. “Completely. I did a documentary about Calcutta women who are trying to fight AIDS and who created a program to educate poor women in Calcutta. I did something about crimes in America with a very famous photojournalist and we were doing a lot of things about chen gangs in Alabama. I really wanted still because you can be in a bubble when you're in a corporation and I really wanted to make sure that I was not staying in this bubble and that I was going to be able to see Always to always see the real world. So I did that. And then in 2001.”

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  5. “I was really leaving the New York way and I always met the prompt to do two documentaries about important issues when I was in New York. So I did a lot of documentaries for Kappa and I was also in New York.”

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  6. “It was extremely worried, and you have also to think about people who are so much worried about you when you're doing this type of work. But anyway, so I moved to New York. I decided to convince Canal Plus, which was at the time, and Canal Plus for the American audience became very, very successful after in the United States. They were part of even the Universal, they produced a lot of movies. But at the time, it was like the beginning of HBO. And I decided to convince my boss to create a first office in the United States in New York. And he looked at me, said, okay, for three months. So it's my theory. I had a foot in the door. So I went for three months and then I stayed 12 years. And I developed Canal Plus. I always during my holidays, I didn't take any French holidays.”

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  7. “Yes. Baffling decision making. Yeah, I had to be crazy as my mother about Sarajevo because when I came back from Sarajevo, my mother was in tears telling me I didn't draw a daughter to go to Sarajevo. And it was very difficult.”

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  8. “So in 1992 I was in Kappa and I fall in love with New York. I went on holidays in New York. I was working in the street in New York and I said that's it. I have to live there. So I came back to Paris and I said that to my family was what? You're going to move back.”

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  9. “That was the beginning of the big shift in Israel. And it still is with also the religion aspect happening at this moment.”

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  10. “And I documented the families from both sides. And I follow them year after year after year I went to see the mothers, I went to see the brothers, I wanted to understand those two women who looked like sisters. I think Newsweek did a cover on them. What happened to them and how at one point I think they have been in school together and suddenly boom one is killing the other they didn't know each other even if when they were a child they had been in school what happened to them and what was very interesting for me year after year is to sleep slowly but surely the radicalization of the two mothers. I wanted the two mothers I think five years ago met. It was impossible and I told them but you lost a daughter. You have to meet that's how peace is going to begin. And they never wanted to meet.”

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  11. “No, I don't. I see radicalization from both sides. And I will always encourage people who are working in the Middle East to leave the ordinary life on both sides. I did a documentary about a Palestinian family and an Israeli family, and I was working at the time as a video journalist producer for 60 minutes too. And I remember this story vividly. There were two women, one woman, her name was Rachel. She was twenty years old, and the other woman her name was Ayat, she was also twenty years old. They really look similar. Ayat was living in Palestine. And then one day Ayat decided to blow herself up in a supermarket and she killed Rachel.”

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  12. “It was in july twenty fourteen and two days after the war in Gaza began and I said to my editor at the time Okay, let me go back to the Middle East.”

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  13. “Because you always have to choose side, and they're good and bad people on both sides. And that's where the conflict happened for me, you know, which side am I choosing? And I don't want to choose a side as a journalist. I want to be neutral. I want to see what's happening. So that was difficult. And maybe we're going to speak a little bit of that, but I was in Baghdad also. And it has deep effect on me. So, I wanted to do a pose from my middleist experience. And then I'm always saying it's addicting because when my father died two days and I had a very, I'm still moved about that, but I had to go back to the Middle East two days after.”

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  14. “Oh, it was a kind of thing. I sit down in a hotel. It was during the Olympic Games. He was in Barcelona at this time, and I heard that he was coming. So I went to the hotel and I sit down for one day. And I wait for him to get out. When he got out, I stopped him, and I was speaking a little bit of Spanish, and he stopped in front of me, and he said, Buenos Dias Comoista and then I began to speak and I had it was not a sit down interview but it was a kind of encounter but that's also the things that I used to do because I was with Kappa and we had someone who was pushing us to be on the road all the time to try things which were never done before to be idealist and to really push to get closer to the real events so we did that and Castro was part of this time yes”

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  15. “I am very depressed. I mean, when you're in the Middle East, when you're covering what's happening, after a certain point, the story is getting on you and you're really going down if you're not careful. I still have mixed feeling about covering the Middle East.”

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  16. “I felt that I didn't know Israel and that I didn't want at this time to know Israel. I was working in Palestine with the Palestinians people and I really understood a lot of things that I didn't understand when I was in Paris. And then years after, because I went a lot together, I went a lot to Hamala. I went a lot to Bethlehem years after I stayed. I have to stop because now the conflict is there. I'm Jewish and what's happening when I'm covering the Palestinians coast, especially when the Palestinian cause, especially in 2003, became really radicalized with a lot of suicide bombing that was more and more difficult. And it was also, I began...”

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  17. “I learn that I met ordinary people during extraordinary things, and that was what I wanted to show. And I learned that, you know, when people want freedom, want independence, want to do something at one point life does not matter anymore. There's an idea which is better than them, and that's what I wanted to document.”

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  18. “Yeah, I did Somalia Bosnia. Yes, the beginning of the war. Gaza. Yes, Gaza. Very interesting for me because I was Jewish. So I went to the other side and it was very...”

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  19. “Yes, pretty tough and dangerous place. Yeah, I didn't speak about danger. I was always interested to be where it's happening. And I always said to people who ask me this question, I don't like this thing about, oh, you have been a work correspondent. I don't think at all like that. I really think that when you're going to dangerous situation, you just want to witness what's happening.”

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  20. “and we created a weekly news magazine which was called twenty four hours and for twenty four hours with five different video journalists you showing a world event and it became extremely successful because we were able to do a lot of cinema virtue away the characters in front of the cameras where the people were following and basically it was a tribe and it really became very very important in my life so from”

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  21. “And the idea was very simple. No correspondent in front of the camera, you act as a photojournalist but with a small camera, and I have to remember that it was in nineteen eighty nine. So it was quite a revolution. And you're not going to make a lot of money, but you're going to cover the world and be with interesting people. And the inspiration was Robert Kappa, the photographer, who was the famous war photographer. And we decided to do that with a small channel at this time, the name of the small channel was Canal Plus.”

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  22. “And I was what I'm doing here in Cannes. I don't want to be in Cannes. I want to go to Tiananmen and I want to cover what's happening in China. I was really about that. And I went to see my boss and I told him, this is it for me. I'm quitting. I don't want to do that because I didn't choose journalism to do that. And he was, what? You become famous here. What's happening? I said, no, I really want to do something about the world we live in. And at this time there was a group of people who created a small video journalist agency which was called Kappa.”

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  23. “Yeah, but that was the trick. I mean, people were, oh my God, you're paid to go to see movies and to go to theaters. And then there was a kind of wake-up call. And it was a very important thing in my mind. I was at the Cane Festival and one of my friends, I began with this friend was in China and he was covering Tiananmen.”

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  24. “Yeah, I wasn't, I mean, it was interesting because I had fun in a way, but it was really like, you know, go to the canned festival, go to a lot of Hollywood things. And it was not fun.”

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  25. “I was nineteen And then someone was listening to me all the time during August and he was the new owner. And he lived in the United States. He was fascinated by the United States. He's a very famous French journalist. His name is Philippe Labro. He's a writer. And he wanted to help young people. So when he was listening to me, he said, how old is this woman and someone told him she's nineteen? So he said, I want to see her, so I had a meeting with him. And he said, what do you want to do? And he asked me if I wanted to cover the nightlife in Paris, if I wanted to go to movies, theaters, and to do that and to have my own small program. And I said yes.”

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  26. “And I thought it was a kind of promotion for himself to make think he was missing. And in fact, he has been kidnapped and he was killed in Africa. And it was a big story. And I was right there. So then slowly but surely I made my way up and I stayed in the house.”

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  27. “To close it. And I was a little bit known for that with sometimes critics. I was a woman, so I pushed also for me as a woman in the newsroom. And it was absolutely fascinating. And I was really part of this machine. Then I noticed that you have a lot of French holidays. You know, in France and journalists in France, they're taking holidays. They don't stop. So in the summer, it's holidays and the newsroom are empty. And when the newsrooms are empty, when there's a big story happening, they're taking the interns or the young people. So I didn't go on holidays. I stayed in Paris and I did my first exclusive in the middle of August. There was a very famous TV personality who was missing. He went to Africa and people for three days were looking for him.”

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  28. “Yeah, I think I worked hard and I was very competitive and I was pushing the doors. There was someone who told me when you put the foot in the door, it's really difficult after to”

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  29. “Yeah, I can tell you that I still know all the place in Paris open after three o'clock. I know this story because I was a nightside reporter myself. So it was really a good share. I was with a group of people. We see each other since then. And we really worked hard and we were preparing what you're going to say. It's here, the morning shows. So we were doing that. And then you had...”

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  30. “Yes, and then I went to see the news director and he said the only job you can have is to work on the radio from 5 o'clock in the evening until 3 o'clock in the morning. You have to remember I was eighteen. I wanted to go to party. So to work five days a week when you're eighteen from five o'clock in the evening to three o'clock in the morning, it's no life. And I said, yeah, I'm going to do that. So I did that.”

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  31. “I convinced this person, and I brought coffees for six months, and I make the prompt to be the first one to arrive and the last one to leave”

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  32. “So, my first job was to bring coffees. I did that for six months. I was bringing coffees to people all the times. I was in a radio and I was an intern. They didn't know what to do with me. I really had an interview with someone and I said, give me an internship for six months.”

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  33. “Drama. I mean, my mother was what's happening and my father was, are you sure you want to do that? And then he paused and he said, you just have to be happy. So if you're happy, I'm going to support you”

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  34. “Do political school and it was not for me and I decided that okay I want to be on the field so instead of going to school for a lot of years why I'm not trying right away to be in a radio and I convinced someone to hire me in a radio I was 17 years old.”

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  35. “Yes, yes, absolutely. I was, I mean, when you asked my family what happened to me, they still have this question, what happened to her, but why did she do that? I think I was watching TVs and I was very inspired by people who were covering historical events. So I was looking at people, for instance, I remember when I was 13 there was the war in the Maluin in Argentina. There were a lot of things happening in Central America, revolution, and I was very inspired by that. And there was also a lot of things in the Middle East. And I really wanted to be like them. I watched them and I said, wow, they're covering the world. explaining to us what's happening I want to be like them. So I decided to”

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  36. “He was a very good generalist doctor. And then they created this kind of club in Paris with my mother about discussions, human rights, classical music. Again, when I went to bed, I always had someone in my house who was playing piano. And they really wanted to have a quite interesting life in Paris. And it was the golden years in Paris at this moment. It was the reconstruction. So I was born there and yeah I loved them very much.”

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  37. “And uh the family which didn't do that was killed in Auschwitz. So when they came back they wanted to come back to France after leaving for six years in Argentina while my father at the time was 13 years old was raised. When they came back they had to rebuild everything. And they believed in France after war, so they rebuilt everything and they became quite successful and then my father didn't want to be a CEO of the company of my grandfather. He wanted to build a doctor. He wanted to take care of the people. What kind of thing?”

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  38. “Yes, my family suffered tremendously from the Holocaust. My father's family had to escape in 1941 to be killed. So there's a lot of stories in my family and my mother also was living in France at this moment. She was young, so she had to hide in the countryside. And my father's family had to get false papers. They had to leave France. They went to Spain. They took a boat and they went to Argentina for six years.”

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  39. “She was half French and half Israeli, and I was raised in a non Jewish way. I mean, my parents were not religious and we were living in France.”

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  40. “Ah there were extraordinary they were quite intellectual my father was a doctor he wanted me to become a doctor and he did not understand why I wanted to be a journalist and my mother had a passion it was classical music so I was raised with people who were doing fellowship in my home to become classical pianist and so I was raised”

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  41. “Yanda challenge you and I understand what's happening and they're sinking in a global way and they still have hope and they're trying to understand different aspects of the American society and also the world so it was an amazing experience and yes I mean you created I know you're very shy sometimes but I think you really created something quite unique here to pause and to think”

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  42. “It was a fantastic experience. I can tell you that I did not know at all the university world. I did not know at all this special bubble in the American society. And it gave me hope because there's a new generation here which is ready to do things. And in my opinion, which is really interested by different topics.”

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