90% Luck and a Lot of Work
This is about the life of Mihai Grunfeld. He was born in Romania in 1949. Trying to escape from communism and dreaming of a better life, he first escaped to Czechoslovakia at the age of[…]
Tag Archive: Immigration
The Serenity Project
This June, 15 women from across the state of Colorado were selected to model for The Serenity Project Fashion Show held at the Tivoli Turnhalle in Denver, Colorado. he Serenity Project was created by Miss[…]
Age of Hope
Age of Hope is a short doc film about my trip with «Age of Hope» (NGO) to the Hungarian city of Zakany in October 2015. «I’m on my way to Croatia with a German terrorist[…]
Immigration from India to the US: A Long Journey Home
In A Long Journey Home, Filmmaker Adam Wadhwani chronicles the story of his family’s immigration from India to the United States. Kishin and Kate Wadhwani grew up in India in the 1930s and 1940s. Married[…]
America Heard: Refuge of Hope
Synopsis: Syracuse, New York is an unlikely home to over 10,000 former refugees now living in the U.S.. Two women at the forefront of this community reflect on what their presidential vote means to those[…]
Tacos al Pastor: Raul Morales and the American Dream
Dreams Come True is a short documentary film about Raul Morales, an immigrant from Michoacan, Mexico, who as a child always had dreams and came to the United States to realize those dreams. With many[…]
Personal
A documentary about the struggle and the joy of being an international actor in New York City. About the Filmmaker Submitted by Elena Grosso Elena was born and raised in Italy where she obtained[…]
Sahro Hassan: Fashioning her Future
Meet Sahro Hassan, a young Somali immigrant who stepped into the halls of Lewiston Regional Technical Center in Maine, as a freshman in 2010. At that young age she was already designing her future along[…]
Blending into the American Dream: The Providence Granola Project
Go inside the Providence Granola Project and hear directly from recent refugees on how making great food empowers them (and the larger community as well). The workers and founders of Providence Granola Project work hard[…]
Refugees’ Bicycles
I came across Jeff in 2013 when I was taking a documentary class at Emily Griffith Technical College, and my teacher gave us a project to document a story that we were passionate about. The[…]