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At Home Among Strangers, Aleksandra Gorbacheva May 2022

At Home Among Strangers, Aleksandra Gorbacheva

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At Home Among Strangers is a character-driven documentary that explores the price of freedom for a gay person in a society that lacks freedom and civil rights. It follows an asylum seeker from Russia, Sasha Smirnov, during a crucial moment of his life: starting over in New York City at 40 as a journalist without English language skills. The film reflects on the choices one makes and the consequences of staying true to oneself.


Instituting Protest (Film), Joshua Eisenberg May 2018

Instituting Protest (Film), Joshua Eisenberg

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The road-trip story of one man looking at how first and fourteenth amendment rights have effected college campuses over time in the United States, while also looking at the possibility of revoking a diploma from a white nationalist for having different views than ones preferential to a certain college.