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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

Are we selling a film?

Loch Phillipps

2 min readMay 17, 2021

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Are we selling a film?

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

A good first showing

For a filmmaker, there’s nothing quite like sharing your film with a large audience. For an activist filmmaker, the experience is taken to…

3 min readNov 30, 2021

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A good first showing

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

The sound of one hand clapping

Written by Loch Phillipps

3 min readJan 29, 2021

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The sound of one hand clapping

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

The scarcity of safety

My mother has particular habits-evinced by familiarity with need-that many might consider odd, but others, refugees like us, would find…

5 min readAug 7, 2020

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The scarcity of safety

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

A warm welcome home

In my mother’s house, next to the safe in her closet, are two photo albums documenting our lives from the year of my birth to our earliest…

6 min readJun 2, 2020

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A warm welcome home

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

What can we learn from this moment?

Adam Bedient

3 min readMar 24, 2020

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What can we learn from this moment?

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

Why I joined the team

I feel that I’m connected to this story and this film in so many ways. Being an Arab immigrant makes me feel connected to our main…

4 min readFeb 19, 2020

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Why I joined the team

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

Our philosophy

Kai (not his real name) showed us the dent in his car. It was small, but he was worried. As a recently resettled refugee he feared that…

3 min readJan 21, 2020

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Our philosophy

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

But there’s cake!

“This is why refugees are the best: perspective… The Supreme Court you know, maybe did us harm… but there’s cake!” -Shelly Callahan, June…

2 min readNov 6, 2019

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But there’s cake!

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

Presenting the project in Akron

I visited the University of Akron on September 26th. My good friend, Professor John Huss made the arrangements. I sat in on 3 of his…

3 min readSep 30, 2019

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Presenting the project in Akron

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Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

Utica: The Last Refuge documentary

This feature documentary follows the Azeins, a Sudanese refugee family, as their story intersects with the ongoing story of Utica, NY.

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