IDFA: Director Valentina Pedicini on Gaining Access to a Kung Fu Sect in ‘Faith’

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It took Italian director Valentina Pedicini more than a decade to make observational documentary “Faith,” about a reclusive spiritual sect of kung fu practitioners led by a domineering man known as…

Compared with her previous visit one big difference this time around is Pedicini found kids at the community, along with the monks, who call themselves Warriors of Light.

All the community’s other members made a deliberate decision to join, but with kids it’s different. “What’s it like for kids to grow up in such as secluded world?,” she asked herself? So the kids became a backbone of sorts for the doc, which is “about how they are educated to become warriors.”To find the balance between what she saw – which she was not a part of – and “the attempt not to judge.

And also, “what do these kids see in the higher power, or in that very physical being which is the Master?” That’s what Pedicini was interested in. And though she narrated a very specific, very small, story, she tried to “make this dynamic universal.”

 

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