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| “Divided We Fall” ~Screens at the Spinning Wheel Film Festival in Hollywood:....... |
Monday, November 12, 2007
”DIVIDED WE FALL”
The Hollywood Spinning Wheel Film Festival screens Award-winning Documentary on Post-9/11 Hate Crimes - November 17, 2007.
Hollywood, CA. - The Spinning Wheel Film Festival will screen the award-winning documentary Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath, the first feature-length documentary film to explore and analyze the fall-out from 9/11, on November 17, 2007 at 1.30 pm, in the Writers and Guild Theatre, Beverly Hills, California. Directed by Sharat Raju, Divided We Fall follows then-college student Valarie Kaur in the days and months after the 2001 terrorist attacks as she drove across America interviewing victims of hate violence.
"Five years in the making, Divided We Fall invites audiences to experience the untold stories of 9/11," said Kaur. "The journey spirals into the larger question of who counts as 'one of us' in a world divided into 'us' and ‘them.'”
Divided We Fall begins with the story of Balbir Singh Sodhi, a turbaned Sikh man who was shot and killed in Mesa, Ariz., on Sept. 15, 2001, by a man who called himself a "patriot." The killing was the first of an estimated 19 "retribution" murders in the year after the Sept. 11 attacks. Many Sikhs who wore turbans were immediately targeted in the backlash. A million Americans and 25 million people worldwide belong to the Sikh religion, which originated in India in the 15th century and requires the turban as an article of faith. Sikhs are neither Muslim nor Arab, and have had nothing to do with the 9/11 outrage.
"Terrorism and critical moments in the war on terror trigger hate violence at home," Kaur said. "If we can recognize Sikh and Muslim faces as 'American,' we can respond to the fear that divides our nation in times of crises and come one step closer to a more perfect union." |
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