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The SOUTH CAROLINA PREMIERE of
Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath
A powerful new feature-length documentary film on hate violence in the aftermath of 9/11
www.dwf-film.com
Tuesday, April 10 at 7:30 p.m.
University of South Carolina
Gambrell Hall Auditorium (Room 153)
Columbia, SC
Filmmaker Valarie Kaur present for Q&A
Open to the public
Free admission
About the Movie
Driven to action by the murder of a turbaned man in her community, a college student drives across America in the aftermath of 9/11 to discover stories that did not make the evening news. From the still-shocked streets of Ground Zero to the desert towns of the American West, Valarie Kaur’s inspiring journey uncovers remarkable stories of hate violence, fear, and unspeakable loss – until she finds the heart of America halfway around the world, in the words of widow. Five years in the making, Divided We Fall deftly explores race, religion, and identity in times of national crisis.
Watch film clips, get the latest news, and read reviews from across the country at www.dwf-film.com
About the Filmmakers
VALARIE KAUR is a third-generation Sikh American born and raised in Clovis, California, and a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Divinity School. She began the five-year journey to make this film in 2001 when she was an undergraduate at Stanford. The world premiere of Divided We Fall in September 2006 sent Valarie on a packed international speaking and screening tour which continues today. She has been invited as an authority on the subject at more than one hundred universities, colleges, and religious centers across the country. She has been featured in print, radio and television media including CNN, NPR, the BBC, and Frances Moore Lappe’s book You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear. The State of California recently presented Valarie with an official commendation recognizing her work as a scholar, activist, and storyteller. Now at Yale Law School, Valarie studies and advocates on civil rights, immigration, and national security issues. In 2010, Valarie founded the Yale Visual Law Project, the world’s first academic cinematic journal for legal scholarship.
Throughout her career, she plans to continue harnessing multiple tools – speaking, writing, filmmaking, and lawyering – in order to lift up people’s stories in service of justice.
SHARAT RAJU received an MFA in directing at the American Film Institute. His thesis film, American Made, earned both of the top two awards from AFI before it went on to win a total of seventeen awards at nearly forty film festivals around the world. In 2006, the national broadcast debut of American Made on the PBS program Independent Lens drew one million viewers, and will continue to broadcast on the program through 2009. In addition to his work as a writer-director-producer, Sharat has numerous feature film credits, including as a casting assistant on Matrix Reloaded, Matrix Revolutions, and 8 Mile. His feature screenplay Sacred Grounds was accepted into the Film Independent 2007 Directors Lab and he is currently a Directing Fellow for the ABC Network.