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‘The Gas Station Attendant,’ Immigration Is Shown Through A Dual-Perspective
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‘The Gas Station Attendant,’ Immigration Is Shown Through A Dual-Perspective

The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…

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How to have an American Baby
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DOC NYC: How To Have An American Baby, A Gut-Wrenching Account Of How The Birth Tourism Industry Becomes A Geopolitical Parable

Filmmaker Leslie Tai provides a cinematic peek into the soaring latent economy that addresses Chinese pregnant women who travel to the United States to give birth, to provide a better future for their babies. How To Have An American Baby — part of the 2023 DOC NYC line-up — is a choral piece that intertwines…

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