Alison Klayman
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Alison Klayman is a freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker. While living in China from 2006 to 2010, Klayman produced radio and television feature stories for NPR’s “All Things Considered”, AP Television, Voice of America, and CBC. She recently reported the story "Who's Afraid of Ai Weiwei" for PBS Frontline. Her first feature documentary film AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY, will be released in 2011. She has been a guest on NPR's "On Point with Tom Ashbrook," BBC Radio 4 "Profile", CBC's "The Current" and more. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and graduated from Brown University in 2006.

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Is Facebook Never Sorry?

155 Comments | Posted November 22, 2011 | 13:08:47 (EST)

As the director of the upcoming documentary feature "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry," I spent several years filming with the rebel artist Ai Weiwei, now internationally known for his 81-day illegal detention by the Chinese government earlier this year. The film offers an inside look at how Weiwei finds...

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Meet Wen Tao, Missing Along with Ai Weiwei

Posted April 12, 2011 | 14:40:01 (EST)

In December 2010 I conducted a 90-minute interview with Wen Tao, as part of my documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. On April 3, just hours after Ai Weiwei was detained at the Beijing airport, Wen Tao was taken away by four or five plainclothes officers. Both...

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Ai Weiwei Is Not a Criminal

Posted April 4, 2011 | 18:05:51 (EST)

"Anyone who spent time with the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in the past couple of years has noticed the woman with the camera, " the New Yorker's Evan Osnos wrote in his blog last week. I'm that woman with the camera. I have been filming Ai Weiwei for...

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