Producer’s Forum with Vivek Bald: In Search of Bengali Harlem
Producer’s Forum with Vivek Bald: In Search of Bengali Harlem
As a teenager in 1980s Harlem, Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of hip-hop. He rejected his working-class Bangladeshi parents and turned his back on everything South Asian and Muslim. Now an actor and playwright facing the Islamophobia of post-9/11 Hollywood, Alaudin wants to tell his parents' stories Vivek Bald is a scholar, writer, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. Producers’ Forum Screenings Supported By The National Endowment For The Arts, The Pennsylvania Council On The Arts And The Philadelphia Cultural Fund
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