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Produced by Hanifah Walidah & Olive Demetrius
The U People Podcast follows filmmakers and partners Hanifah Walidah and Olive Demetrius on their amazing and humorous journey to bringing their new documentary U People to the public. It also features roaming comedian Gloria Bigelow as she captures the U People stories of everyday extraordinary people.
U People are everywhere.
A U People story is one from the margins, if you have ever been made to feel like an "other" then you have a U People story. These things that happen to you that are so ridiculous that when you think about them you want to cry but when you talk about them you have to laugh.
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