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We’re teaming with The Current to deliver 10 short films from 10 different directors, focused on social trends explored through cinema. The sixth short film, The Bad Ones, features a young actor trying to get across an emotional monologue while the director keeps making changes. It’s an exercise in frustration, intensified by neither party really understanding what the performance — grounded in a religious change — should get across. Maybe it needs a scarf. “I believe that Muslims are possibly the most misrepresented group in American news media,” says director Dustin Wadsworth. “In the news coverage surrounding radical Islamic groups like Isis, important distinctions between the majority of all Muslims and terrorist organizations are very rarely made. There seems to be a tendency to talk about ‘the Muslim world’ as if it is all the same thing. “I’m excited to be a part of The Current this season as I see this as an opportunity to show a...