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Community Impact Film Series: Immigration
August 30, 2025 @ 10:30 am - 1:00 pm
Free

Join us at our next Community Impact Film Series event focused on Immigration. This free event includes:
- 10:30 – 11:30am: Resource Fair + Music by La Brava
- 11:30 – 1:15pm: Short Films Screening
- 1:15 – 1:45pm: Post Screening Discussion
- 1:45 – 2:45pm: Resource Fair + Music by La Brava
Featured films:
- Hope and Resistance: 5 years of the Carolina Migrant Network
- Swimming with Wings
- Kowloon!
- Leaving Ikorodu In 1999
- Lana
- We Were The Scenery
Guest Speakers:
-
Bryan Li, Owner of Open Rice Asian Kitchen & Owner of Residency Charlotte
-
Hector Vaca Cruz, Director of Immigrant Justice for Action NC
- Roderico Y. Diaz and Emily Gibson Rhyne from Iximché Media
Resource Fair & Organizational Partners:
- Bethany Christian Services of NC
- Carolina Migrant Network
- Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy
- Hue House
- International House
- OBRA Collective
- World Affairs Council
- El Futuro es Latino
- Somme Reasons LLC
- Camino
- Refugee Support Services
This series is possible due to the support of Kathryn & Luke Kissam, as well as
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