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Scene Photo Mountains and Clouds
Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson, USA, 2010; 93m
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Reception to follow screening and discussion with filmmakers.

With unprecedented access to some of the most powerful members of the US Congress, Mountains and Clouds revisits a seminal moment in the push for immigration reform, with implications for the immigration battle currently brewing for the Obama administration and Congress.

August 2001 was the most electrifying time in decades for immigration advocates, with Washington on the cusp of realizing comprehensive reform. Two weeks later, the 9/11 attacks shifted the Capitol's focus completely to national security issues. In response, Senator Ted Kennedy and his unexpected Senate partner, conservative evangelical Republican Sam Brownback, have every intention of passing the security legislation in order to return to immigration. But fate throws up a roadblock.

Elder statesman Senator Robert Byrd has a star turn holding up the business of the nation; young Senator Brownback begins to have doubts; and the future of immigration reform hangs in the balance.

Mountains and Clouds (story two) and Last Best Chance (story twelve - finale) are two films from the groundbreaking documentary film series, How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories, a series nine years in the making by award-winning filmmakers Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson. Courtesy of HBO Documentary Films.
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Presented in association with El Museo del Barrio, www.elmuseo.org and The New York Immigration Coalition, www.thenyic.org






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