Immigrant Workers’ Freedom Ride picks up the legacy left by the 1960s Freedom Rides, documenting one leg of the Freedom Rides held in the summer of 2003. Immigrant and non-immigrant low wage workers traveled on buses headed to Washington D.C. demanding better working conditions.
Nicole Cousino works in a broad range of media
including video, photography, installation, sound and performance. Much of her work investigates strategies and structures of documentary/interactivity/agency with a recent u-turn towards utopic possibilities.
Cousino has been producing socially conscious
documentaries since 1990. Her subjects have ranged from domestic violence to alternative energy to incarceration. Her work has shown throughout the United States, in various festivals and venues including at the Museum of Modern Art, and internationally.
David Koff has been a documentary filmmaker for more than 30 years. His films include White Man's Country, Mau Mau, and Kenyatta, a trilogy about colonialism and resistance in Africa; Blacks Britannica, a film about race and class in Britain; and Occupied Palestine, on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. People of the Wind, a film of the Bakhtiari people of Iran, was nominated in 1976 for an Academy Award as Best Feature Documentary. Windows, a film with the families and colleagues of immigrant workers killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11, premiered at the 2002 Latino International Film Festival. He was the founder and executive producer of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride Documentary Project. David is currently a Senior Research Analyst in the Strategic Affairs Department of UNITE HERE.
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