Community Impact Film Series: Immigration

Join us at our next Community Impact Film Series event focused on Immigration. This free event includes:
- 10:30 – 11:00am: Resource Fair
- 11:00 – 11:15am Performance, “Memories of Peru” by Salas Art Agency
- 11:15 – 11:30am Music by La Brava
- 11:30 – 1:15pm: Short Films Screening
- 1:15 – 1:45pm: Post Screening Discussion
- 1:45 – 2:45pm: Resource Fair + Music by La Brava
Featured films:
- Hope and Resistance: 5 years of the Carolina Migrant Network
- Swimming with Wings
- Kowloon!
- Leaving Ikorodu In 1999
- Lana
- We Were The Scenery
Guest Speakers:
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Bryan Li, Owner of Open Rice Asian Kitchen & Owner of Residency Charlotte
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Hector Vaca Cruz, Director of Immigrant Justice for Action NC
- Roderico Y. Diaz and Emily Gibson Rhyne from Iximché Media
Resource Fair & Organizational Partners:
- Bethany Christian Services of NC
- Carolina Migrant Network
- Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy
- Hue House
- International House
- OBRA Collective
- World Affairs Council
- El Futuro es Latino
- Somme Reasons LLC
- Camino
- Refugee Support Services
- Khipus Knots
- Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
- Action NC
This series is possible due to the support of Kathryn & Luke Kissam, as well as
Opens on August 30
Hope and Resistance: 5 years of the Carolina Migrant Network.
This documentary short celebrates 5 years of immigrant rights advocacy by the Carolina Migrant Network and the strong…
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A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with…
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Kowloon!
As the biggest Chinese restaurant in the US, Kowloon is a fantasyland that represents the Wong family’s American…
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Leaving Ikorodu In 1999
During a road trip to the airport, Fade questions whether her niece’s departure from Nigeria is truly for…
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Lana
As Lana grapples with finding her own voice while living under the roof of a strict parent, her…
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We Were The Scenery
At the end of the Vietnam War, Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che fled to the Philippines…
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