TRAVELS (and more) WITH CECILIA BRAINARD: Salam Neighbor

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Review: Salam Neighbor, Documentary on Syrian Refugees #refugeecrisis, #syriawar

l-r: Cecilia, Lauren Brainard, Zach Ingrasci

We saw the premier Los Angeles showing of Salam Neighbor, a documentary film by Zach Ingrasci and Chris Temple.

Zach and Chris had done the award-winning film, Living on One Dollar a Day, which documents the resourcefulness of people in rural Guatemala who lived on a dollar a day. In Salam Neighbor, the two young filmmakers went to Jordan's Za'atari refugee camp and lived with 85,000 displaced Syrian refugees for a month.

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

Cecilia Manguerra Brainard's official website is ceciliabrainarddotcom. She is the award-winning author and editor of 22 books, including When the Rainbow Goddess Wept, The Newspaper Widow, Magdalena, Selected Stories, Vigan and Other Stories, and more. She edited Growing Up Filipino 1, 2, & 3, Fiction by Filipinos in America, Contemporary Fiction by Filipinos in America, and other books.. Her work has been translated into Finnish and Turkish; and many of her stories and articles have been widely anthologized. Cecilia has received many awards, including a California Arts Council Fellowship in Fiction, a Brody Arts Fund Award, a Special Recognition Award for her work dealing with Asian American youths, as well as a Certificate of Recognition from the California State Senate, 21st District, and the Outstanding Individual Award from her birth city, Cebu, Philippines. She has lectured and performed at UCLA, USC, University of Connecticut, University of the Philippines, PEN, Shakespeare & Company in Paris, and many others. She has served in the Board of literary arts groups such as PEN, PAWWA (Pacific Asian American Writers West), among others.