Your Name Is My Name

In 2008 Filmmaker Osato Dixon was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to live in Zimbabwe and shoot his thesis film for Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. His intentions were simple; capture the lives of albino children. Yet the results yielded an ongoing, in depth look into a world full of heart-breaking tragedy, relentless hope and life-changing discoveries. Your Name Is My Name is the compelling story of young people who try to fit into a world that has abandoned them.

Plus short film: Why Do White People Have Black Spots? directed by Anya Kandel and produced by Momentus International
Utilizing the benefits of increasingly portable electronic media, asks youth in Ghana to pose questions to people outside of their borders, sparking an ongoing dialogue through film. By reversing the traditional subject-viewer relationship in documentaries, the film forces the audience to answer the most fundamental questions surrounding culture, war and poverty.

(Film followed by Q&A and reception)