Monday, August 12, 2013

"Enemy Alien" Screening: NYC, Sunday, Aug. 18

RESISTANCE CINEMA
Presents
“ENEMY ALIEN”
A project of Life Or Liberty Productions,
Produced and Directed by KONRAD ADERER (2011, 82 minutes)

WHEN: Sunday August 18, 2013 1:15 pm
WHERE: Community Church NY, Gallery Room 28 East 35th St. btwn Park & Madison Aves.
ADMISSION: Free, donations appreciated
SPECIAL GUEST: Filmmaker KONRAD ADERER

RESISTANCE CINEMA concludes its summer season with an intriguing film by a local NYC based filmmaker. Enemy Alien begins with the quest of a Japanese American filmmaker, Konrad, to document the underside of the patriotic fervor comparing the attacks of September 11, 2001 and Pearl Harbor: the post-9/11 detentions of Muslims and internment of Japanese Americans. Finding these aftermaths to be not only historically resonant but linked by immigration policy, he soon finds his own life transformed by this theme as he becomes involved in the fight to free immigration detainee Farouk Abdel-Muhti. [...]

Read the full announcement:
http://www.russellbranca.com/AriaAperta/Projects/DETAILSEnemyAlien.html


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