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Scope and Contents Interview conducted in English. Deborah Shaffer, independent filmmaker, discusses her history as a documentarian and discusses the development of three of her films related to the Latin American revolutionary period: Witness to War (El Salvador), Fire from the Mountain (Nicaragua), and Dance of Hope (Chile). Shaffer describes her introduction to documentary filmmaking; the relationships she established with Dr. Charles Clements, an American physician who provided medical aid in El Salvador,...