At any given time, commissioning editors have a secret shortlist of film subjects they avoid, usually in reaction to a glut of similarly themed projects on the market. For Olof Dahlberg, who acquires programming for the 'Documentaries From Abroad' strand on Sveriges Television (SVT) in Sweden, orphans in Eastern Europe was such a topic.

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