Reading, Pa.- The documentary Which Way Home, an Academy Award nominee for best featuredocumentary, will be shown at Albright College on Wednesday, November 17, 2010, at 6 p.m. The film will be shown in Klein Lecture Hall, Center for the Arts, and is free and open to the public.
Directed by Rebecca Cammisa, Which Way Homechronicles the personal side of immigration through the eyes of children who face harrowing dangers with enormous courage and resourcefulness as they endeavor to make it to the U.S. on the tops of freight trains through Mexico.
The documentary will be introduced by Reading High School graduate Amelia Frank-Vitale, a 27-year-old graduate student at American University who has conducted extensive interviews with Central Americans traveling through Mexico in hopes of reaching the United States, and has taken the freight train journey herself.
A Skype link will allow students to ask questions and interact with people in a migrant center in Ciudad Ixtepec in the Oaxaca state of Mexico.
For more information on the documentary, visit http://www.whichwayhome.net/
For more information about the event or disabled assistance, please contact the College Relations Office at 610-921-7526. Klein Lecture Hall is located in the Center for the Arts on the Albright College campus at 13th & Bern Streets, Reading, Pa.
Founded in 1856, Albright College is a nationally ranked, private college with a rigorous liberal arts curriculum with an interdisciplinary focus. The College’s hallmarks are connecting fields of learning, collaborative teaching and learning, and a flexible curriculum that allows students to create an individualized education. Two-thirds of students graduate with dual/individualized majors in more than 200 different combinations. Albright enrolls about 1,660 undergraduates in traditional programs, another 500 adult students in accelerated degree programs, and 100 students in the master’s program in education. Albright College is located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about 60 miles west of Philadelphia.
