"WELL - FOUNDED FEAR, TALES FROM REAL LIFE".
From the makers of "Well -
Founded Fear"
Tales from real life by
Shari Robertson &Michael Camerini
"WELL - FOUNDED
FEAR
Tales From Real Life"
From the archive of footage produced
for the ground-breaking documentary
Well - Founded Fear comes a set of
video modules that offer an
unprecedented look into what goes on
behind the electronic doors of our
nation's asylum offices. Screened
individually or in any combination,
these short films mirror what happens
in the asylum office hundreds of times
every day - Americans come face to
face with the rest of the World.
Asylum officers represent the people
and the government of the United
States. Asylum-seekers who come to
ask for protection represent only
themselves, their particular life
circumstances, their own unique luck.
For this reason, every asylum
interview has the makings of a novel.
Tales From Real Life is an
introduction to five of those stories.
Five people from different countries
and very different lives, they are
five people you'll want to know - a
grandmother who was once a
resistance fighter, a high school kid
whose life was changed forever by
an article he wrote for his school
newspaper, an indigenous artist
caught in a civil war, a political
dissident who describes his unusual
torture after a midnight arrest, a
woman whose story shows how
domestic violence can become
political.
None of these tales has been available
until now. Out of 50 asylum cases, we
chose the best. Each person is
someone you'll remember and wonder
about. Each story opens the door to
universe of questions, and each can be
looked at in several ways.
We left the stories open-ended,
trusting that creative teachers and
discussion leaders will use them to
initiate many unique conversations.
Please remember - each story is about
the person asking for asylum, but each
one is also about us. Tales From Real
Life raises a lot of questions, but
inside every question hides these:
What are our values? Who are we?
Founded Fear"
Tales from real life by
Shari Robertson &Michael Camerini
"WELL - FOUNDED
FEAR
Tales From Real Life"
From the archive of footage produced
for the ground-breaking documentary
Well - Founded Fear comes a set of
video modules that offer an
unprecedented look into what goes on
behind the electronic doors of our
nation's asylum offices. Screened
individually or in any combination,
these short films mirror what happens
in the asylum office hundreds of times
every day - Americans come face to
face with the rest of the World.
Asylum officers represent the people
and the government of the United
States. Asylum-seekers who come to
ask for protection represent only
themselves, their particular life
circumstances, their own unique luck.
For this reason, every asylum
interview has the makings of a novel.
Tales From Real Life is an
introduction to five of those stories.
Five people from different countries
and very different lives, they are
five people you'll want to know - a
grandmother who was once a
resistance fighter, a high school kid
whose life was changed forever by
an article he wrote for his school
newspaper, an indigenous artist
caught in a civil war, a political
dissident who describes his unusual
torture after a midnight arrest, a
woman whose story shows how
domestic violence can become
political.
None of these tales has been available
until now. Out of 50 asylum cases, we
chose the best. Each person is
someone you'll remember and wonder
about. Each story opens the door to
universe of questions, and each can be
looked at in several ways.
We left the stories open-ended,
trusting that creative teachers and
discussion leaders will use them to
initiate many unique conversations.
Please remember - each story is about
the person asking for asylum, but each
one is also about us. Tales From Real
Life raises a lot of questions, but
inside every question hides these:
What are our values? Who are we?
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