March 29, 2024

PBS POV Documentary Screening of Don’t Tell Anyone @ Seekonk Library

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Seekonk, MA – The Seekonk Library has partnered with PBS to bring a new movie experience to the library. Presenting PBS’s POV documentary series at the library! POV believes in the power of film to engage communities in dialogue around the most important social issues of our time. Come to enjoy the film and if it moves you, stay for a discussion on the film afterwards.
Monday, November 27, 5:30 PM (Discussion to immediately follow)
Don’t Tell Anyone (no le digas a nadie) by Mikaela Shwer
In Don’t Tell Anyone (no le digas a nadie), Angy Rivera had two crucial secrets in her life. The first was that she was an undocumented child living with her mother and siblings in New York City for 19 years. That secret was a constant source of fear: If her immigration status was discovered, she could be deported and her family shattered.
The second secret was more tragic: Rivera had been sexually abused by her stepfather from ages 4 to 8, a secret she eventually revealed and which, in the strange world of immigration law, helped her gain the visa she had always desired.
Director Mikaela Shwer met Rivera, now 24, while the young woman was still undocumented. After the two developed a friendship, Shwer began filming Rivera's quest to help others living in immigration's "shadows" and to gain a visa for herself. The result was Shwer's first full-length documentary.
A co-production of Vision Maker Media and American Documentary | POV.
This Film is Not Rated; 1 hour 15 minutes.
This event is a collaboration with POV, the award-winning independent nonfiction film series on PBS. (www.pbs.org/pov)
For information: www.seekonkpl.org or
Contact: library@seekonkpl.org

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