SENTENCED HOME
Saturday, April 28th
1:15pm — Wildish Community Theater
Preceded by BLEACH and PETER SEAV
$3-$10 Sliding Scale [Buy Tickets Now!]
USA | 76mins | 2005 | Documentary | David Grabias, Nicole Newnham
This is the other side of U.S. immigration policy. Behind the laws and court orders, these are the families being torn apart, these are individuals welcomed as refugees with open arms in their childhood, but now face deportation to a 'home' they have no memories of and simply expected to somehow survive. This compelling work follows the lives of three such individuals, Cambodian men who are being doubly penalized for the crime they committed in their younger years, growing up in gang-ridden, poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Even though some have already served their jail time years ago and have turned their lives around, now occupied with working to support a family or coaching a Little League team, they still face the same fate of deportation. Their heartbreaking stories will compel viewers to question the very justice and humanity of current immigration laws.
To premiere nationally on PBS INDEPENDENT LENS in May 2007.
http://www.itvs.org/outreach/sentencedhome/
BLEACH
USA | 15:02 | 2006 | Experimental Documentary | Nicole Starosielski
An experimental ethonography of the whitening of one “American” family.
PETER SEAV
USA | 9:00 | 2006 | Documentary | Stephanie Tang, Christy Ly, Carl Yu
In the form of an intimate interview with his daughter, this film recounts the story of one man’s first experiences as a new immigrant in the U.S. after escaping from Cambodia during the time of the Khmer Rouge.
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