In 2018, a shocking event made headlines around the world: a young American missionary, John Chau, was killed by arrows while attempting to contact one of the world’s most-isolated Indigenous peoples on remote North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean. Now, his story is a film, “The Mission.” Host Marco Werman speaks with one of the directors, Jesse Moss, about the challenges of telling Chau’s story.
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