Friday, April 20th
7 pm
The Hong Kong America Center
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin N.T., Hong Kong SAR China
First Asian American Film Festival
Friday, April 20, 2007
7 p.m
D Hall, MUST
The Hong Kong America Center
Chung Chi College
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin N.T., Hong Kong SAR China
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.
