A film co-produced by four Wake Forest students will be screened at WFU’s interdisciplinary art festival, Wakeville, on April 6th at 2:30pm in Scales Fine Arts Center room M208.
The film will also be screened at the RiverRun International Film Festival on April 26th at 5:30pm in the Hanesbrand Theater. More details, as well as the link to purchase tickets, can be found here: https://riverrunfilm.
The film, Welcome(d), is a short advocacy film produced for Every Campus a Refuge (ECAR) at Wake Forest. The film charts the story of two refugees who emigrated from war-torn countries, the difficulties they experienced upon arriving in America, and how ECAR at Wake Forest was able to connect them with a support system and the resources to build a better life in Winston-Salem. Welcome(d) was produced by Will Zimmerman (’23), Rowan Henchy (’25), Parker Beverly (’23, MFA ’25), and Hope Zhu (’25) under the tutelage and mentorship of Ammar Basha, Yemini filmmaker and artist-in-resident at Wake Forest. The film premiered in October of 2023 at the ECAR Gathering hosted by Wake Forest in Winston-Salem.
