A documentary about a community resisting an immigration raid in Scotland has won an award at a major film festival.Everybody To Kenmure Street was recognised with the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance at the Sundance Film Festival in the US.The film documents events on May 13, 2021, when hundreds of people gathered in Kenmure Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow to prevent two of their neighbours being detained.The two men were released after protesters surrounded the immigration enforcement van for several hours, with one person lying underneath the vehicle.The documentary combines crowd-sourced footage filmed on the day with set-designed scenes and archive material.Filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra, winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance for ‘Everybody to Kenmure Street’, at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Friday. Photo: via AFPIt was directed by Scotland-based, Chilean-Belgian filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra who said: “I am so delighted. As filmmakers we are only vessels for what happened on Kenmure Street.
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Film on Scotland community resisting immigration raid wins Sundance award
A documentary film, "Everybody To Kenmure Street," has won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance at the Sundance Film Festival. The film documents the events of May 13, 2021, in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, Scotland, where hundreds of people gathered on Kenmure Street to prevent an immigration raid.
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A documentary film, "Everybody To Kenmure Street," has won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance at the Sundance Film Festival. The film documents the events of May 13, 2021, in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow, Scotland, where hundreds of people gathered on Kenmure Street to prevent an immigration raid. The community protested the detention of two neighbors, surrounding an enforcement van for several hours until the men were released. The film, directed by Felipe Bustos Sierra, combines crowd-sourced footage, set-designed scenes, and archive material to tell the story of the community's resistance. The award recognizes the film's portrayal of civil resistance in action.
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I am so delighted. As filmmakers we are only vessels for what happened on Kenmure Street.
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Everybody To Kenmure Street was recognised with the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance.
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A documentary about a community resisting an immigration raid in Scotland has won an award at the Sundance Film Festival.
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