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Film Screening: We Are In It

October 26, 2017 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

- Free

Thursday, October 26, 2017 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM

Film Screening: “We Are In It”

By Yehuda Sharim (Rice University)

“We Are In It” chronicles the stories and journeys of five Houston residents and their attempt to find refuge in the American metropolis. By combining tales of deportation with everyday defeats and resilience, the film identifies what lies beneath the surface of migrant and refugee realities and the unsettling need to move towards political and economic security. The film documents their personal archives—poetry and paintings of Baghdad, film clips of the Burmese diaspora, songs in Swahili—and their efforts to re-envisage a home amidst experiences of warfare, hardship, and alienation. Filmed over a period of two years, the film not only sheds new light on the political climate of global migration but also speaks to universal human values of compassion and belonging.

Moderator: Todd S. Presner (UCLA)

Respondent: Ananya Roy (UCLA)

Sponsored by the

UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

Cosponsored by the

Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin

UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration

UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television

UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance

 

Watch Trailer 1 & Trailer 2


About the Director:

Yehuda Sharim is a scholar, filmmaker, and creative director of Houston in Motion: Empowering Houston Migrant and Refugee Communities, a multi-media project that provides a window into the lives and experiences of refugee communities in Houston. “We are in it” is his directorial debut.

Dr. Sharim is currently teaching at Rice University, serving as a Kinder Fellow in the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. His other artistic and scholarly work explores connections between art, poetry, comparative migration studies, cultural studies, and race and ethnic studies.

In the Press:
A Voice for Refugees” – Rice at Large Magazine

In Houston, a filmmaker tries to understand the city’s mélange of refugees” – The Urban Edge

A Voice for Houston’s Refugees” – Rice Magazine

Migrant Ironies: Migrants Hope for Life Without Limitations in Houston” – The Feminist Wire

Details

Date:
October 26, 2017
Time:
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Tags:
Website:
http://www.weareinitfilm.com/

Venue

Royce Hall 314
340 Royce Drive
Los Angeles , 90095 United States
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Details

Date:
October 26, 2017
Time:
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Tags:
Website:
http://www.weareinitfilm.com/

Venue

Royce Hall 314
340 Royce Drive
Los Angeles , 90095 United States
+ Google Map