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Film Credits —
- Rachel Leah Jones Director/Producer
- Philippe Bellaïche Director/Producer
Critical Acclaim —
“With their Sundance-premiering ADVOCATE they’ve created an in-the-trenches portrait of this unapologetic firebrand... A remarkable character. A warrior for justice who’s spent her entire adult life taking punch after punch, she forever gets up undaunted to fight another day.”
— Lauren Wissot, Filmmaker Magazine