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From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. It's hard to describe how excruciating it is to watch Gita Ganbier's Oscar-nominated documentary, The Perfect Neighbor.

We know from the first minute what's going to happen. Someone will be shot.

But the film is not in a hurry to get to that moment.

Instead, we get a slice of Florida life, a multiracial community not divided by the things you might expect,

but by a dispute between a crabby older neighbor and a block full of kids and their parents.

The tragedy that will rock the neighborhood only becomes more painful

minute by minute as you get to know the various personalities, a process that occurs through the

body cam footage of sheriffs who are called out to the area again and again. This is a film that

could not have been made before the last half decade of ubiquitous footage,

and it is one of the most memorable and unusual films I've seen in a long, long time.

Gambier is also the director of The Devil is Busy, a documentary short about an abortion clinic in Atlanta.

It's indefatigable staff and the people who protest it.

Welcome to Forum, Gia.

Gita.

Thank you so much for having me.

So for folks who haven't seen this film on Netflix where it was a huge hit, can you just

sort of describe the situation for people?

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