alexandria | Austin Short Film https://www.austinshortfilm.com sut and About in Austin TX Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:08:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 https://www.austinshortfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/austin-short-films-65x65.png alexandria | Austin Short Film https://www.austinshortfilm.com 32 32 163542106 WeTalk Season 1 Ep. 5: Austin, TX – Films for Social Justice: Alexandria Bombach & Hayley Pappas https://www.austinshortfilm.com/social/wetalk-season-1-ep-5-austin-tx-films-for-social-justice-alexandria-bombach-hayley-pappas/ Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:08:47 +0000 https://www.austinshortfilm.com/blog/wetalk-season-1-ep-5-austin-tx-films-for-social-justice-alexandria-bombach-hayley-pappas/ Sundance award-winning director, Alexandria Bombach, and producer Hayley Pappas, who calls the shots at the cutting-edge Oscar-nominated production company, RYOT films, speak about their award-winning documentary “On Her Shoulders”:the truly incredible story of Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi genocide and ISIS sexual slavery survivor who, despite losing everything and everyone, is determined to tell her […]

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Sundance award-winning director, Alexandria Bombach, and producer Hayley Pappas, who calls the shots at the cutting-edge Oscar-nominated production company, RYOT films, speak about their award-winning documentary “On Her Shoulders”:the truly incredible story of Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi genocide and ISIS sexual slavery survivor who, despite losing everything and everyone, is determined to tell her story as many times as is needed to get help her people. Yazidi’s eloquence and grace ends up opening the hearts and minds of the United Nations.

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As New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to galvanize the left (and frustrate the right), what’s driving her unique appeal has become an increasingly compelling question. Is it her identity or her substantive politics? Or both?

Ocasio-Cortez’s embrace of democratic socialism has been emphasized by the right, which seeks to paint her as out of touch with mainstream American values. But arguably, it’s her progressive ideals that provide the basis for a human-centered politics that connect with a majority of Americans.

The Intercept’s Senior Politics Editor Briahna Gray will talk to Ocasio-Cortez about identity, the race/class divide, and how these factors are likely to play out in the years ahead.

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