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The Film Club

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Building empathy through the language of film

Welcome to NAE’s new Film Club, a monthly virtual film series focused on immigrant filmmakers and subject matters related to the immigrant experience in America. Each month we’ll screen one movie for free and then host a virtual discussion with a key  member of the film team to discuss themes of immigration. 

RSVP today for our next film screening, Storm Lake!

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Storm Lake

About The Movie

Storm Lake, Iowa, has seen its fair share of changes in the 40 years since Big Agriculture came to town. Farmers blow their life savings on new equipment they hope will keep their livelihoods intact while migrant workers flock here, welcome and not, to achieve the American Dream. Corporate, political, and environmental forces—and even a global pandemic—threaten to overwhelm the already precarious existence of the people in Storm Lake. Nearly 2,000 local papers have shuttered in the last 20 years, a crisis accelerated by COVID-19. The stakes have been especially high for the Cullen family; they comprise half of The Times’ 10-person team. Against tight deadlines and slimmer margins, the Cullens report on their town, and wonder how the paper will survive as readers cease to support journalism like they used to.

November 2021

After the screening for a live panel discussion with La Prensa Iowa’s Lorena Ester López Altamirano, the 19th News’ Errin Haines and The Storm Lake Times Art and Tom Cullen.

Thanks to our partners!

Upcoming Movies

November 2021 Storm Lake

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Economic Contributions of DREAMers in Major Texas Metros
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