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Ewing made her narrative debut in 2020 with "I Carry You With Me," a love story based on her two close friends, Ivan and
Gerardo, who had emigrated to the United States from a conservative town in Mexico. The film began as a documentary, but over the course of the process Ewing realized it was best
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Her first feature-length documentary, "The Boys of Baraka," was co-directed with Rachel Grady. The film, made with ITVS, premiered at the South by
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presented as a narrative film with non-fiction elements woven through. The film made its world premiere at the 2020 Sundance Film
Festival where it won the jury and audiences awards in the festival's NEXT section. The film was nominated for two Independent
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