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Welcome Nowhere and Mr. Stokes' Mission

WELCOME NOWHERE (Kate Ryan, 80 min.)

Narrated by Academy Award-nominee Ethan Hawke, Welcome Nowhere tells the true story of one community of Roma people (commonly known as Gypsies) in Sofia, Bulgaria, who live in old train boxcars without bathrooms or proper sanitation. Placed there by the mayor more than ten years ago, they hold on to hope that the government will soon follow through on its promise of better housing. Yet year after year, their living conditions only get worse, and the community is struggling to survive with what little they have. Welcome Nowhere documents their fight for new homes, better opportunities for their children, and ultimately, their place in the world.

MR. STOKES' MISSION (Sam Hampton, 30 min.)

Mr. Stokes Mission is a half-hour documentary about Civil Rights activist and educator John A. Stokes. On April 23, 1951, Stokes, then president of his senior class at the Robert Russa Moton High School in Farmville Virginia, helped organize and lead a walkout by students to protest inferior conditions for his fellow African-American students. His efforts contributed to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling three years later, which banned segregation in public education.