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Sean Baker makes movies about poor people, a noble effort but sometimes a fraught one. Especially these days, filmmakers like him must pick their way through a political and cultural minefield—and set off the occasional explosion.
“I get attacked all the time,” he says.
Mr. Baker isn’t complaining. His latest independent film, “The Florida Project,” about “motel kids” on the edge of homelessness in the shadow of Walt Disney…