Screenings

April 28, 2012

Bijou Art Cinemas

492 East 13th Ave

Eugene, OR

April 22, 2012

Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago

May 2, 2012

Gene Siskel Film Center
Chicago

April 26, 2012

A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
339 Lafayette Street, corner of Bleecker Street, Manhattan [map]
Muste room, third floor (buzzer #11)

March 16, 2012

Palmerston Library

560 Palmerston Avenue

Toronto, Canada

Rising Up: The Alams


2005, MiniDV
Running time: 11 minutes
Director/Producer: Konrad Aderer
Editor: Helen Yum
Additional camera:
John Eung Soo Kim and John Rae
Executive Producer: JT Takagi

In this short documentary we meet the Alams, a Bangladeshi family living in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Mohammed Alam, father to two young U.S. born daughters, is one of 13,000 immigrants in deportation proceedings as a consequence of Special Registration, a post-9/11 policy which targeted nationals of predominantly Muslim countries. The documentary shows how the Alams move beyond victimization to actively fighting for change as members of South Asian community organization D.R.U.M. (Desis Rising Up and Moving).

Rising Up: The Alams was produced for the non-profit media project Life or Liberty, as part of Third World Newsreel's Call For Change series.

Distributor: Third World Newsreel

Blurb: 

See how a Bangladeshi-American family targeted by Special Registration fights back.