Documentarian Maximilien Dejoie confesses he was feeling the stress while following his subject for Ji.hlava doc fest main competition title “Everything Works Out (in the End).”

His road movie account of an American artist who moves quickly from a career as a stripper to would-be boxer to writer/musician while literally (in her view) fighting off demons, was challenging to capture, especially working solo with a handheld camera.

“It’s kind of liberating,” Dejoie says of making the doc this way, allowing him to follow Katelyn Louise Doty – or just Kate more usually – wherever she goes…even when she reverses course on a life direction, sending the film plot into question.

As audiences learned following Dejoie’s screening at the Czech Republic’s top doc event, he followed Doty from Chica

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