Film Screening and Q&A
The Latino/a/x Issues Conference is honored to be able to screen Stateless/Apátrida (2020) by Director Michèle Stephenson. Stateless was awarded Best Feature Documentary at the 2020 BlackStar Film Festival and the Jury Prize for Canadian Features at the 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. After the film, we will be joined by Michèle Stephenson for a discussion of the film.
Join us Tuesday, March 14, 2023 | 6:00-8:30PM
Bowen-Thomson Student Union Theater (Room 206)
In 2013 the Dominican Republic’s Supreme Court stripped the citizenship of anyone with Haitian parents, retroactive to 1929, rendering more than 200,000 people stateless. Stateless follows the grassroots campaign of a young attorney named Rosa Iris, as she challenges electoral corruption and fights to protect the right to citizenship for all people. Through a hybrid form of storytelling which combines hidden camera footage with the legend of a young woman fleeing brutal violence, Stateless reveals how the present-day politics of immigration and citizenship in the Dominican Republic are deeply tied to a history of anti-black racism on the Island.
Updated: 11/07/2023 03:04PM