Sajda Abdul-Rahim, a college student living in New York City, talks about her religious upbringing as a Muslim and her quest for a less traditional and more personal spiritual connection with God. Michelle Fine
Barbara Young
National Domestic Workers Alliance’s leader advocating for domestic workers’ rights. Work and Respect – Domestic Workers United
Margaret Chin
Professor Chin discusses Gang activity and Chinese American youth in the Lower East Side. Excuse My Gangsta Ways
Sapreet Kaur
Ms. Kaur describes the Sikh faith’s principles and the challenges the Sikhs have faced since 09/11/01. Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity
Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity
Original tape date: September 22, 2016. Short Docs’s first season starts with the streaming of Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity, directed by Kevin Lee. The short film describes the challenges facing the Sikh community in a post-9/11 New York City that erroneously associates the Sikh turban (or dastaar) with terrorism and Islamic extremists. The piece […]
Work and Respect – Domestic Workers United
“Work and Respect” is a powerful short documentary focusing on domestic workers. It describes the activist protests of immigrant women from Domestic Workers United (DWU), an organization of Caribbean, Latina, and African nannies, housekeepers, and elderly care workers in New York who aim to protect and advocate for workers rights across the United States. […]
Coming And Living in America
In this short film, women of immigrant and first generation backgrounds came together for an intense one-day video production workshop. The piece details the cultural and emotional challenges they faced in becoming part of contemporary U.S. society. The film is part of The Multiplicity of Us, a workshop presented by New York Women in […]
She Rhymes Like A Girl
Toni Blackman and the FreeStyle Union are challenging the male-dominated world of Hip-Hop and empowering women to speak their minds in freestyle workshops. This music video/documentary describes Toni’s concentrated effort to provide training and support for emerging female hip-hop artists whose voices, activism and lyrics have been largely unnoticed. Toni Blackman
Konrad Aderer
Mr. Aderer talks about his most recent production “Resistance at Tule Lake,” a documentary about a Japanese-American filmmaker confronting startling echoes of his own family’s World War II internment at the Tule Lake Segregation Center, as he joins the fight to free a Homeland Security detainee. Rising Up: The Alams
Rising Up: The Alams
In this documentary, we meet the Alams, a Bangladeshi family living in Coney Island, Brooklyn. Mohammed Alam, the 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 […]
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