③ 共感與同理：難民紀實③ Compassionate Filmmaking During Displacement

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📌Activity Introduction｜Introduction

On June 22 (Thur.), we are pleased to have Taiwanese director Hsuan Yu Pan, producer Nancy Wolfe, and featured artist Ludmila Christeseva join the screening of the two films My Mother’s Table and The Other Side of the Sea. They will share their filmmaking process and stories. The protagonists in these two films are from Syria and Ukraine, and the films describe their nostalgia for their hometowns and how they advocate anti-war and peace for their motherland. We would love to invite the public to join the discussion about compassion and empathy based on the content of the documentary films, how the filmmaker tells the story of refugees through the lens, and how refugees tell theirs.

Film Description ：

👉 "My Mother's Table"
The film documents a Kurdish refugee mother and daughter introducing their hometown – Aleppo, Syria – through cooking.
Kurdish refugees, a mother, and her daughter, introduce their hometown, Aleppo, Syria, with their passion for cooking.

👉 "The Other Side of the Sea" (The Other Side of the Sea)
The film documents Ukrainian immigrant artists living in New York City working with various immigrant groups in response to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Ukrainian immigrant artists in NYC work together with different immigrant groups to respond to ongoing Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.

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👉 Event Date: 2023/ 6 / 22 (Thu) 20:00~21:30 (GMT+8)

【Reminder】
👉This event will be in English, and no consecutive interpreting.
👉Registration is required. Please fill out this Google form by Wed 21 June 2023. We will send you the Cisco Webex link the day before the event.
👉Register here: https://forms.gle/sb3svzu44ybWjQmXA

Film Screening Bonus】

The free viewing period is from June 20 to 22, and the video link will be sent by email after registering for the event.

Free screening between 20-22 June: Registered participants will receive a link to the films so they have the option to watch the films before the event. The link will be sent out via email on 20 June.

Private rental screening ($5) between 23-30 June: If you miss the event or want to watch the films again, you can donate $5 to access the films between 23 and 30 June. More details will be released on our social media on 22 June.

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📌 ❑ Speaker｜Speakers
👉 Hsuan Yu Pan Pan Xuanyu｜Director

Originally from Taiwan, documentary filmmaker Hsuan Yu Pan has been exploring human stories through her lens for over a decade. Over the years, she has been creating documentary films about immigrants and refugees. Two of her films, My Mother’s Table and The Other Side of the Sea were selected at Izmir International Refugee Film Festival in 2020 and 2023. The Other Side of the Sea was also invited by Belarusian / Swedish artist Ludmila Christeseva to be part of the Stockholm Design Week exhibition in February.

👉 Nancy Wolfe ｜Producer

Nancy’s work merges filmmaking with journalism, archives, writing, and teaching, at Democracy Now! in 2016, and as executive producer on the feature documentary “Fit To Print”, chronicling the demise of watchdog reporting. She produced Hsuan Yu Pan’s ALONE/TOGETHER (Social Impact Film Festival 2021), a 40-minute collaborative documentary featuring video essays and landscape imagery from eleven countries, funded by Queens Council on the Arts and New York City Artist Corps. She produced another short film with Pan, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SEA, a portrait of Ukrainian-New Yorkers using music, art, and direct action to take a stand after Russia’s invasion in 2022, premiering at the Refugee Film Festival in Izmir, Turkey in October. Her directorial debut ROCKY FLATS was selected by the 2021 DOC NYC Film Festival’s industry program. She teaches film at Keene State College and has presented her work to students at University of Colorado, Denver.

👉 Ludmila Christeseva｜ArtistFeatured Artist

Ludmila Christeseva is a Swedish artist and curator, who was born and raised in Belarus. Over the years, she has initiated several international projects amplifying female voices in the arts. Her important ongoing initiative to empower Belarusian female artists on the global art scene is supported by the Swedish Institute. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Christeseva has launched a series of initiatives to support Ukrainian women and children who have been forced to flee because of the war. Christeseva’s focus has been on crafts and creativity as a language that unites people for peace and freedom in difficult times. The current project “Crafts that unite, heal, and last” has, among other things, introduced joint weaving of camouflage nets in public places as a method to unite people for hope and optimism. This year, Christeseva is a Winner of Impact of the Year Award and is a nominee for Nelson-Mandela Prize by Stockholm’s Municipality.

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📌 ❑ Facilitators of Refugee Week Taiwan│ Facilitators of Refugee Week Taiwan

Refugee Path

Refugee Path was established in 2021 by development practitioners Hsiao-Chi Chu and Chunyuan Hu. Through team members’ combined research experience in forced migration and fieldwork in different countries, Refugee Path was created with the hope of building a collaborative-based, knowledge-sharing platform in Taiwan. We have held online interactive co-writing workshops since 2021. In 2022, we decided to organize a refugee week in Taiwan. Refugee Week Taiwan will be held each year as an open forum to discuss the current challenges and opportunities for refugees in Taiwan and beyond.

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❑ The sponsor of this event is the National Human Rights Museum of Taiwan. The event is supported by the National Human Rights Museum, Taiwan.
❑ Cover Photo Artist: Lin Chen-Wei