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Kartemquin Films - The New Americans live event will commence in 20 minutes. Thanks for joining!

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Kartemquin Films - While we wait for participants to enter, let's refresh your memory with the THE NEW AMERICANS trailer:

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Kartemquin Films - The New Americans trailer

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Thank you for joining Kartemquin Film's live blog for THE NEW AMERICANS.

We have Series Producer Gita Saedi Kiely answering your questions today.

We hope to also be joined by the ‘Mexico story’ producers Renee Tajima-Pena and Evangeline Griego.

‘Dominican story’ producer/director Susana Aiken, and ‘Indian Story’ Producer/Director Indu Krishnan may join as well! So fire away with your questions!

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Kartemquin Films - THE NEW AMERICANS finished it’s Chicago PBS rebroadcast last night. The 7 part series is also now available on DVD from Kartemquin.com. The series follows four years in the lives of a diverse group of contemporary immigrants and refugees as they journey to start new lives in America. We follow an Indian couple to Silicon Valley through the dot-com boom and bust. A Mexican meatpacker struggles to reunite his family in rural Kansas. Two families of Nigerian refugees (including the sister of slain Ogoni activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa) escape government persecution. Two Los Angeles Dodgers prospects follow their big dreams of escaping the barrios of the Dominican Republic. A Palestinian woman who marries into a new life in Chicago only to discover in the wake of September 11, she cannot leave behind the pain of her homeland's conflict.

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