BDC’s Women’s Film Series: Alost America

BDC’s Women’s Film Series:
Almost American

Sunday, October 20, 2024
6 – 8 PM

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451

Director Nina Álvarez, a long-time broadcast and documentary producer/director and professor at the Columbia Journalism School, follows a family originally from El Salvador, decades-long residents of the US, who must fight deportation when the Department of Homeland Security revokes the Temporary Protected Status of six countries. Since the youngest children were born in the US and are American citizens, deportation will not only remove the parents and older sister from their long-established, stable lives, but threatens to break up the family.

Join us for a post-screening conversation with director Nina Álvarez, editor Brittany Huckabee, and co-producer Caterina Barbera—don’t miss this insightful discussion!

Nina Álvarez is a documentarian and journalist with over 20 years of experience. She directed and wrote an episode for Latino Americans, which received a Peabody and the Imagen Award.

Nina’s credits include Very Young Girls, The Battle for America’s Schools, the Oscar-nominated Which Way Home, and the Emmy-nominated Aftershock Pakistan.

This event is held in conjunction with the Bronx Documentary Center’s 10th Annual Women’s Film Series running from October 18-20, 2024.