LAS ABOGADAS: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis \u2013 a benefit to pay for the new 16\u2032 screen!
\nShowing: Thursday, May 25, 7:30 PM
\nTitle: Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis
\nYear: 2022
\nCountry: USA
\nGenre:\u00a0Documentary
\nDirector:\u00a0Victoria Bruce
\nFor a group of extraordinary women who practice immigration law, the refugee crisis is a call to action they can\u2019t ignore.
\nLAS\u00a0ABOGADAS\u00a0follows a group of immigration attorneys over a multi-year odyssey as the U.S. Government under President Trump upends every law meant to protect those fleeing from persecution, violence and war. USA, 2022, 60 minutes.
\nDoors open at 7:30 with the 9 piece Afro-Brazilian and World Music band,\u00a0Rosario featuring T.E.N.S.\u00a0Las Abogadas will screen at 8:00, followed by recent immigrants to our community telling their stories, and ending with another performance by Rosario featuring T.E.N.S.
\nGrowing up in an immigrant family\u00a0Humberto Rosario\u00a0learned to navigate the complexities of cultural identiry through rhythm and rhyme. \u201cTe Encontro no Samba\u201d (T.E.N.S.) is a dynamic Afro-Brazilian music project founded in 2017. What began as a small \u201croda de Samba\u201d performance group has now evolved into explorations of other sounds of the African diaspora.
\nIf you have been in The Nyack Center in the last year you are no doubt aware that the screen that was installed in 2005 had come to the end of its days \u2013 and maybe you heard us say that a new screen and rolling mechanism would cost $13,000 (which ultimately became $16,000). The Nyack Center did purchase a beautiful new screen that Rivertown Film is helping pay for, and we need to do that without jeopardizing the ongoing programs of Rivertown Film or those of the Nyack Center, whose services support \u2013 among others \u2013 immigrant communities such as those shown in\u00a0Las Abogadas.
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\nPLEASE HELP US. The screen at the Nyack Center is a community resource unlike anything that can be found in Rockland County. This is a special circumstance, and\u00a0WE NEED THOSE OF YOU WHO UNDERSTAND WHAT A UNIQUE RECOURCE THIS IS\u00a0to help us pay for it,\u00a0URGENTLY!\u00a0Purchase a ticket, take part in our raffle, make a donation to our screen fund or become a sponsor.
\nFrom setting up a legal clinic in a Volkswagen bus in the middle of five thousand desperate migrants, to forcing border guards to follow the law and accept a blind woman into U.S. custody, to crossing the border to counsel African migrants stuck in Tijuana, to standing up to human traffickers in a makeshift refugee camp along the Mexican side of the border, to giving legal advice in the brutally hot Mexican sun to families desperate to see American soil \u2014 we watch our\u00a0Las Abogadas\u00a0characters\u2019 surreal journeys to try and help.
\nIn their own narration, we hear how each woman came to do the work they do. With archival footage we see their own personal stories of migration and their desire to give others the same opportunities.
\nBest of Women\u2019s Voices \u2013 Portland Film Festival
\nBest Documentary \u2013 L.A. Independet Women Film Awards
\nBest Documentary \u2013 Vancouver Women in Film
\nBest Feature \u2013 Vancouver Women in Film
\nCamera Eye International Award \u2013 6th Annual Women Filmmakers Festival
\nBest Documentary \u2013 ONE Country, ONE Film International Film Festival
\nBest Documentary \u2013 Awareness Festival
\nBest Social Justice Documentary \u2013 Queen City Film Festival
\nBest Documentary \u2013 Pembroke Taporelli Arts and Film Festival
\nBest in Fest \u2013 Valkyrie International Film Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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