US indie director Sean Baker pays tribute to the world's sex workers after his Palme d'Or win at the 77th Cannes film festival, his film 'Anora' winning over the jury -- and giving a tiny American movie distributor, Neon, its fifth consecutive Palme d'Or win on the Croisette.
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00:00 In my eyes, it's obviously an unfair stigma and one that perplexes me because it's our
00:06 oldest profession, yet nothing has changed towards on the perception of it.
00:14 So my hope is these are stories that, you know, that humanize sex workers, but also
00:21 just, you know, just they're universal stories applied to sex work.
00:25 So I hope audiences can sort of connect and identify.
00:32 And therefore, hopefully that leads to, you know, to empathy.
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