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WORLD Channel Continues its Celebration of Pride Month with a Film looking at Young LGBT Asylum Seekers
To close out WORLD Channel’s celebration of Pride Month, Director Rodney Evans’ documentary Vision Portraits debuts June 30. Best known for his films Brother to Brother (2004) and The Happy Sad (2013), in Vision Portraits, Evans takes viewers on a personal journey as he profiles three blind or visually impaired artists, discussing how each has adjusted their creative process in response to the loss of sight. Along the way, Evans searches for answers on how the gradual loss of his sight may forever alter his filmmaking ability.
By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D, NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor
On Sunday, June 28, the WORLD Channel series DocWORLD will premiere the film Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America from filmmaker Tom Shepard. Following four young members of the LGBTQ community, Unsettled takes viewers into the lives and struggles of these asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East who are fleeing persecution, death threats and more in their homelands but often find new types of hardships as they arrive in San Francisco and attempt to start new lives.
The film features the following people (subjects):
Junior, a gender non-conforming refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo arrives in San Francisco and struggles with depression, housing instability, and alcoholism while trying to secure stable work.
Mari and Cheyenne, forced to flee their native Angola because they are a lesbian couple, fight against time and a temporary visa status that may see them sent back to a place where they cannot safely be together.
Subhi, a Syrian refugee arrives in the U.S. and soon becomes an advocate for the LGBTQ community, testifying before the United Nations about the treatment of those in the LGBTQ community in the Middle East and North African (MENA) nations. Subhi, who is profiled by Out Magazine, NBC News and more, worries for his family’s fate back home.
Unsettled premieres on Sunday, June 28 at 10pm ET/7pm PT on WORLD Channel and worldchannel.org. Watch the trailer for Unsettled here.
To close out WORLD Channel’s celebration of Pride Month, Director Rodney Evans’ documentary Vision Portraits debuts June 30. Best known for his films Brother to Brother (2004) and The Happy Sad (2013), in Vision Portraits, Evans takes viewers on a personal journey as he profiles three blind or visually impaired artists, discussing how each has adjusted their creative process in response to the loss of sight. Along the way, Evans searches for answers on how the gradual loss of his sight may forever alter his filmmaking ability.
Watch the trailer for Vision Portraits here.
Vision Portraits airs as part of America ReFramed on WORLD Channel and worldchannel.org on Tuesday, June 30 at 8 p.m. ET.
For more on the films presented as part of WORLD Channel’s Pride celebration, please click here.
