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Rising Up: the Alams at Coney Island Film Festival

By October 2, 2005November 14th, 2019No Comments

Sunday October 2nd

2pm

Sideshows By The Seashore

3006 West 12th St.

Coney Island, Brooklyn


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Coney Island Film Festival

Sunday October 2nd

2pm

Sideshows By The Seashore

3006 West 12th St.

Coney Island, Brooklyn

Rising Up: The Alams

Documentary, 11 minutes, MiniDV

director/DP: Konrad Aderer

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 facing deportation as a consequence of Special Registration, a post-9/11 policy which targeted nationals of Muslim countries. But the Alams are not just victims. Learn how they fight back as members of South Asian community organization D.R.U.M. (Desis Rising Up and Moving).

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