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How the world looks through American eyes, and the myriad and unexpected ways that the world influences the United States.

Boston Calling: Boston Goes to Hollywood

Will Smith - Actor

13/02/2016 GMT

Boston Goes to Hollywood

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Teaching American actors how to sound authentically African

Teaching American actors how to sound authentically African.

We meet the American woman teaching US actors how to improve their African accents, and we hear why #OscarsSoWhite isn't very Latino. We look at the bicultural LA bakery that is breaking one of the unwritten rules of business. And, we speak to the Colombian film-maker behind the first feature shot in the Amazon rainforest in more than 30 years. We find out why American film studios are making more foreign movies specifically for foreign audiences. Plus, we remember Mary Fiumara, an icon of Boston's Little Italy.

(Photo: Actor Will Smith attends the Concussion premiere in New York, 2015. Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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