Got some mail from the folks down at Independent Lens that they'll be showing some great films during the months of March and May. Check it out:
On March 30, we're airing Christopher Wong's documentary WHATEVER IT TAKES, an inside look at the first year of a new Bronx high school and its idealistic young Chinese-American principal Edward Tom.
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On May 25th, we're airing S. Leo Chiang's A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES which tells the empowering story of how an isolated community in eastern New Orleans originally settled over 30 years ago by Vietnamese “boat people,” turned a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a better future. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Versailles residents -- led by the spiritual leader of the community, Catholic priest Father Vien -- impressively rose to the challenge by returning and rebuilding before most other neighborhoods in New Orleans, only to have their homes threatened by a proposed toxic landfill just two miles away.
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