Because Gender film series: DON'T TELL ANYONE

Don't Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) (2015)
Campaign Concerns: 2016 Election Film Series/Gender Film Series

Directed by Mikaela Shwer
Not Rated, 75 minutes, Digital Projection

At the age of four, Angy Rivera arrived with her mother in the United States, fleeing violence, poverty and civil war in their native Colombia. For twenty years, they have lived in the shadows, struggling to stay afloat financially and avoid deportation while battling a complex and inequitable immigration system. Unable to pay tuition for college and facing an uncertain future, Angy joins the youth-led New York State Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and becomes an activist for undocumented youth. Don’t Tell Anyone (No Le Digas a Nadie) follows Rivera’s remarkable journey from poverty in rural Colombia to the front page of The New York Times.

This film received a George Foster Peabody Award in 2016, and is part of the inaugural class of The Peabody 30, honoring programming in news, radio/podcast, web and public service. 

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Co-presented by the Center for Civil and Human Rights, the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Gender Studies Program.

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