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'The Public' Film Interview at Miami Dade Public Library

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'The Public' Film Interview at Miami Dade Public Library

Season 2021 Episode 1 | 11m 32s

PBS Books interviewed actor, writer and director Emilio Estevez at the Miami Dade Public Library, discussing his new film 'The Public,' which dramatizes a peaceful sit-in by the homeless inside a large public library that winds up escalating into a standoff with the police and attracts attention from the media. Estevez is joined by Ryan O'Dowd , author of The Librarians Guide to Homelessness.

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