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‘COVID DIARIES NYC’ brings stories of the pandemic home | The Crusader Newspaper Group

By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. “COVID DIARIES NYC” is playing now on HBO/HBOMAX. The film chronicles the lives of five young filmmakers, ranging in age from 17 to 21, who turn their cameras on themselves to tell the stories of their families during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City. The […]

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