Zahida Pirani is an independent filmmaker who studied nonfiction filmmaking at Columbia University as a Charles H. Revson Fellow. Her work is informed by her many years of experience as a community organizer on immigrant and worker rights issues in New York City. She is the former Director of the New York Civic Participation Project, a labor-community collaborative project of La Fuente, Inc. that works with various immigrant rights organizations and labor unions in New York and surrounding areas. Zahida has taught as an adjunct professor at CUNY’s Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies. She holds a Bachelors degree from U.C. Berkeley and an M.A. in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Her film, Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor, screens April 26.
JUDITH: PORTRAIT OF A STREET VENDOR
Director: Zahida Pirani
United States, 2013, 17min
synopsis
Portrait of Street Vendor is a short documentary that takes the audience on an intimate journey into the daily life of Judith, a street vendor from Guatemala who lives and works in New York City. Judith exposes the daily obstacles and struggles she and her fellow vendors face on the city’s streets and shows her community’s attempts to change their conditions as immigrants and workers. The film unveils Judith’s hopes for the future and her aspirations as a mother, worker and community organizer. Shot in intimate observational style, Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor is a compelling personal story about perseverance and access to the American Dream.
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http://northstarfund.org/about/zahida-pirani.php
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