FREE Film Screening & World Refugee Week Kickoff:
Welcome to Shelbyville – Trailer from Smartley-Dunn on Vimeo.
Filmed in 2008, in heart of America’s Bible Belt, Welcome to Shelbyville focuses on a small town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues of immigrant integration. The film captures the complexity of the African American, Latino, white and Somali subjects as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of a crumbling economy and the election of a new President.
Monday, June 11th
5:00 – 7:30PM
Central Library – 500 McKinney Street, Houston, TX 77002
Concourse Meeting Room (Room C123)
For more information on this and other events that are part of World Refugee Week.