From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

David France's new HBO documentary, Welcome to Chechnya, is a gut-wrenching look at the ongoing campaign to eradicate gay people in Chechnya.

France worked on the ground with activists to chronicle the extraction of individuals fleeing the brutal autocracy. To share this footage without putting his subjects in danger,

France worked with a team to swap out their faces digitally.

We wanted to make sure in this that we made a little bit of a tell on each one of those faces

so that you would know that they were actually wearing somebody else's face.

We'll also talk about how France protected himself,

getting into Russia on a tourist visa,

filming on iPhones and go-pros,

even finding a fake Russian girlfriend.

But first on the news banter,

Labor Peace comes at a high cost.

Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW.

Thank you. at a high cost. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So it seems,

you know, there was this fight going on, and it's still going on between the Writers Guild and

the agencies and all the writers fired their agents, and the's still going on between the Writers Guild and the agencies and all

the writers fired their agents, and the writers seemed to be very fired up. And a lot of people thought

we were going to see another writer's strike. But you know, pandemics change everything. And it seems,

as we speak, tentative deal has been reached at the 11th hour. The Writers Guild likes to bargain until the last

minute. I mean, it's this negotiation via, you know, Zoom, I guess, or whatever they use, but they

seem to have reached a deal. And it just shows that, you know, you can't fight anything really that

well during the pandemic. Yeah, I mean, from the details that have leaked out, and this is not an official deal yet,

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