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It’s hard to put a label on Alan Govenar. He’s a writer, filmmaker, photographer, and folklorist for starters. He’s also the founder of Documentary Arts, a nonprofit arts organization, which, since 1985, has been creating a broad range of media to initiate social change in diverse cultures. He’s shone a light on the extraordinary in ordinary people and made us see them anew.