From Here
“Where are you really from?” Inspired by a young generation’s creative response to this loaded question, FROM HERE follows artists and activists from immigrant families coming of age in an era of rising xenophobia and political turmoil. Set in New York and Berlin, the film shows them create families, fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities, while redefining what it means to belong.
Episodes
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From Here
S11 E5 - 1h 29m
“Where are you really from?” Inspired by a young generation’s creative response to this loaded question, FROM HERE follows artists and activists from immigrant families coming of age in an era of rising xenophobia and political turmoil. Set in New York and Berlin, the film shows them create families, fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities, while redefining what it means to belong.
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Blurring the Color Line
S11 E4 - 54m 28s
BLURRING THE COLOR LINE follows director Crystal Kwok as she unpacks the history behind her grandmother’s family, who were neighborhood grocery store owners in the Black community of Augusta, Georgia during the Jim Crow era. By centering women’s experiences, Kwok poses critical questions around the intersections of anti-Black racism, white power, and Chinese patriarchy in the American South.
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A Decent Home
S11 E3 - 1h 25m
When housing on the lowest rung of the American dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving? A DECENT HOME, directed by Sara Terry, addresses urgent issues of class and economic (im)mobility through the lives of mobile home park residents who can’t afford housing anywhere else.
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The Death of My Two Fathers
S11 E2 - 1h 19m
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches his late father’s tapes and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. At once a conversation between past and present and a letter to Sol’s children, THE DEATH OF MY TWO FATHERS reveals the complexities of identity, the persistence of racial trauma, the challenges of fatherhood -- and the liberation that exists in facing our own mortality.
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Big Chief, Black Hawk
S11 E1 - 51m 3s
Big Chief Tee is a high school senior and the youngest Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief in New Orleans. During COVID-19, he and the Black Hawk Hunters navigate the impacts of gentrification and systemic racism on their annual masking tradition. Through haute couture, movement, and words, BIG CHIEF, BLACK HAWK celebrates the beauty and resilience of “the culture” even in the face of crisis and change.
Extras + Features
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From Here | Through Art Is an Identity and Existence
S11 E5 - 50s
Akim Nguyen, a Berlin-based street artist born in Vietnam, immigrated to Germany alone and had to deal with a country, systems and households who did not understand him. Through his art like with graffiti, Akim has a voice, and an outlet to express his experience as a child of refugees and a person who is able to traverse the globe.
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From Here | Trailer
S11 E5 - 1m 10s
“Where are you really from?” Inspired by a young generation’s creative response to this loaded question, FROM HERE follows artists and activists from immigrant families coming of age in an era of rising xenophobia and political turmoil. Set in New York and Berlin, the film shows them create families, fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities, while redefining what it means to belong.
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From Here | Undocumented, Unafraid, Unapologetic
S11 E5 - 1m
Tania Mattos is "Undocumented, Unafraid, Unapologetic." The Bolivian-born, Queens-based activist reveals her status as undocumented, and what it means to have cultural and social ties to America but not legal standing in the United States. Tania also talks about the day-to-day challenges she shares with the many DREAMers across the country, and why their presence must be seen and heard.
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From Here | Leaving Home
S11 E5 - 59s
Tania Mattos, an undocumented activist living in Queens, NY, talks about her family, their roots in Bolivia, and the reason why they had to leave the country for the United States. She is like many others who have had no choice but to flee home for a new "home" but no matter the years that pass, they lack a sense of belonging as they search for a path to citizenship.
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From Here | Preview
S11 E5 - 30s
“Where are you really from?” Inspired by a young generation’s creative response to this loaded question, FROM HERE follows artists and activists from immigrant families coming of age in an era of rising xenophobia and political turmoil. Set in New York and Berlin, the film shows them create families, fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities, while redefining what it means to belong.
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Blurring the Color Line | Preview
S11 E4 - 30s
BLURRING THE COLOR LINE follows director Crystal Kwok as she unpacks the history behind her grandmother’s family, who were neighborhood grocery store owners in the Black community of Augusta, Georgia during the Jim Crow era. By centering women’s experiences, Kwok poses critical questions around the intersections of anti-Black racism, white power, and Chinese patriarchy in the American South.
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Blurring the Color Line | A Black and Chinese Neighborhood
S11 E4 - 1m
In Augusta, Georgia's Black neighborhood, Chinese-owned grocery stores once lined the streets. Black residents talk about the stores they used to shop at when they were younger, sharing how each business supplied essentials and more for the community. For the Chinese, owning a small business provided an economic means to move up socially...but only to a point.
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Blurring the Color Line | Mixed Race: Being Black & Chinese
S11 E4 - 2m 56s
LeAnna Saucier and her daughter Asia open up about being mixed race - both Black and Chinese - and the indelible experiences they had growing up surrounded by their extended Chinese family. Though they have many warm memories, LeAnna and Asia also share the times each felt unaccepted by their own family and others.
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Blurring the Color Line | Jim Crow Laws
S11 E4 - 16s
In Augusta, Georgia's history, Chinese residents were allowed to enter stores through the front door like white customers. But Black residents had to go to the back door marked for "colored" people. As fellow minorities in the Southern city, why were the Chinese afforded certain privileges?
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Blurring the Color Line | James Brown
S11 E4 - 53s
Deanna Brown talks with Blurring the Color Line filmmaker Crystal Kwok about her father, the music legend James Brown, who grew up in Augusta, Georgia. She tells of his young life living in the Southern city and having to work in one of the Chinese-owned grocery stores to survive through poverty - this was very much like the lives of other Black residents.
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Blurring the Color Line | Acceptance?
S11 E4 - 1m 14s
Senior members of Georgia's First Baptist Church of Augusta sit together to talk with filmmaker Crystal Kwok about their shared but separate histories. While the wife of the minister and the deacon - both white - tell of their acceptance of the Chinese community, the Chinese churchgoers address the dreams and realities they dealt with during that time.
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Blurring the Color Line | A Community Together
S11 E4 - 1m 7s
Residents relive the aftermath of the Augusta Riot, talking about what they had experienced over three days in 1970. Many of the Georgia city's businesses were vandalized but not the Chinese-owned grocery stores that had openly welcomed and served the Black community - over the years, some Black and Chinese residents had built close and trusting relationships.
Schedule
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America ReFramed
From Here
Sunday
Jun 4
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Artists and activists from immigrant families fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities in New York and Berlin. -
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America ReFramed
From Here
Sunday
Jun 4
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Artists and activists from immigrant families fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities in New York and Berlin. -
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America ReFramed
From Here
Sunday
Jun 4
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Artists and activists from immigrant families fight for citizenship, make art and forge identities in New York and Berlin. -
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America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds
Thursday
Jun 8
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Undocumented immigrant workers unite to fight abusive conditions at a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan's Upper East Side. -
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America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds
Friday
Jun 9
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Undocumented immigrant workers unite to fight abusive conditions at a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan's Upper East Side. -
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America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds
Friday
Jun 9
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Undocumented immigrant workers unite to fight abusive conditions at a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan's Upper East Side. -
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America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds
Friday
Jun 9
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Undocumented immigrant workers unite to fight abusive conditions at a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan's Upper East Side. -
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America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds
Saturday
Jun 10
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Undocumented immigrant workers unite to fight abusive conditions at a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan's Upper East Side. -
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America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds
Sunday
Jun 11
1 Hour 30 Minutes
Undocumented immigrant workers unite to fight abusive conditions at a popular bakery cafe in Manhattan's Upper East Side. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Thursday
Jun 15
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Friday
Jun 16
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Friday
Jun 16
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Friday
Jun 16
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Saturday
Jun 17
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Sunday
Jun 18
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Sunday
Jun 18
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation. -
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America ReFramed
The Death of My Two Fathers
Sunday
Jun 18
1 Hour 30 Minutes
After 20 years, Sol Guy finally watches the tapes made by his dying father and embarks on a personal journey of healing and reconciliation.
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