Update: On January 14, 2020, award-winning Jocelyn Ford screened her film at Brandeis' WSRC with the Tibetan community. The event was sponsored by GaIDI and supported by Unbound Visual Arts and the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Gender, Culture & Development. See the Flickr set of photos from the event here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmKPaw3H
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| Photo Credit: Mei-Mei Ellerman |
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Originally published as "Please join us for GaIDI-WSRC's screening of 'Nowhere to Call Home: The tale of a Tibetan migrant worker in Beijing' - cosponsored by our UNITWIN!," 24 January 2018
You are invited to GaIDI's February 1st event, a screening of Nowhere to Call Home: The tale of a Tibetan migrant worker in Beijing.
Originally published as "Please join us for GaIDI-WSRC's screening of 'Nowhere to Call Home: The tale of a Tibetan migrant worker in Beijing' - cosponsored by our UNITWIN!," 24 January 2018
You are invited to GaIDI's February 1st event, a screening of Nowhere to Call Home: The tale of a Tibetan migrant worker in Beijing.
As announced by GaIDI (Gender and International Development Initiatives) of the Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center:
Director Jocelyn Ford, an award-winning international filmmaker and journalist, will provide introductory commentary followed by a Q&A after the film.
Date: Thursday, February 1st
Place: Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall,
Brandeis Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC)
515 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453
Time: 12:30-2:30 PM
Shot in the slums of Beijing and a remote village in Tibet, the film offers a rare and intimate glimpse into the world of a Tibetan farmer, recently widowed, torn between her traditional way of life and her desire for her son to have a better future. It follows the protagonist, after she flees to the capital with her six-year-old son, the only surviving heir to a Tibetan clan, as she contends with the racism Tibetans encounter. Along the way, the documentary challenges common Western stereotypes about Chinese and Tibetans, and reveals a dark side of life in a traditional village, where the saying goes, "women aren't worth a penny."
Translated into 11 languages, the verité-style documentary has garnered prestigious awards, including the NHK's prestigious 2015 Japan Foundation President's Award, a leading international award for educational documentaries, Italy's Trento Solidarity Award, and a special mention at Belgium's Millenium International Film Festival. It has also received acclaim from both Tibetans and Han Chinese in the People's Republic of China. In the US, the Nowhere to Call Home premiere sold out at the Museum of Modern Art, followed by full house screenings in San Francisco and Massachusetts.
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| Poster of the film Nowhere to Call Home |
Please click on the following link to view the trailer of Nowhere to Call Home. Please spread the word. Looking forward to seeing you on Feb. 1st!
Sponsored by Gender and International Development Initiatives (GaIDI) of the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC), and co-sponsored by the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Gender, Culture & People-Centered Development at Boston University Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program (WGS), and by Unbound Visual Arts (UVA), Inc.
