Our Time
Immigrants and Refugees – Las Hijas & Leaving Africa
Directed by Rose Nseya, Rose Nseya, Allyson Peña de NizTV-14
S2 • E2 Apr 27, 2023 26mNew immigrants and refugees face steep challenges coming to the U.S. Rarely, though, do we hear candid conversations between immigrant kids and their families. In Las Hijas, filmmaker A. Pena de Niz crafts a deeply intimate portrait of first-generation daughters from Mexico while Rose Nseya (Leaving Africa) recounts the harrowing odyssey of fleeing one’s homeland in search of safer lives.
