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Youth Breaking Borders

Global Action Project's Youth Breaking Borders program is designed to engage diverse immigrant and refugee youth from Arab, South Asian, South American, African, Nepalese, Chinese, and Haitian communities, among others, to explore globalization, the role of the U.S. internationally, movements towards immigrant justice, and the root causes of migration. Youth meet once a week. They share their learning and media with both U.S. and international communities through screenings, workshops and conferences.

Watch Youth Breaking Border films below! Please contact Chrystian at chrystian [at] global-action [dot] org to set up a screening.

Are you interested in joining Youth Breaking Borders? Apply Here! Tell us about yourself and why you want to join and we'll contact you when the next program begins.

Tribeca Film Festival's "Our City, My Story" Screening "I Am Lobsang"

Posted on 04/19/2012

Our City, My Story is an annual celebration of excellence in New York City youth-made media that gives student-made work an audience during the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, Youth Breaking Border's film "I am Lobsang" was selected to be screened!

El Museo del Barrio Screens G.A.P. Films

Posted on 03/17/2012

El Museo del Barrio presented three G.A.P. films in their OUR ROLLS screening on March 17. This screening featured films by young local artists who use film as their palette to awaken the real and imagined testimonios of their lives and ours. Congratulations to all the G.A.P. youth producers who created these powerful films!

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Aliens vs. Predators

Each year 60,000 undocumented immigrants graduate from high schools across the United States. With recruiters falling short of their targets and casualties mounting in Iraq and Afghanistan, these young people are increasingly being targeted by military recruiters. Aliens Vs Predators is an uncompromising call for justice from a diverse group of young immigrants in New York City.

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Unsockumented

Leaving high school is a stressful time in any young person's life, even more so for those living in the United States without documentation. "Unsockumented" uses dark humor to explore some of the challenges that these youth face.

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America's Next Top Immigrant

A.N.T.I. follows seven immigrants as they battle it out for the American Dream. A satire on reality TV, this piece brings to light what the Dream means to these young immigrants. Watch as the drama and excitement unfolds on America's Next Top Immigrant's season finale.

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No Safe Place

As ICE (Immigrant Customs Enforcement) has drastically increased their quotas for arresting undocumented immigrants, this video traces the lives of young people targeted by this system and asks us to consider the power of sharing our stories.

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Isa's Final Draft

A story about Isabella, a young woman instilled with the dreams of her mother's sacrifices for her daughter to have a better life by accessing education opportunities she never had.

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I am Lobsang

Lobsang is a young Tibetan immigrant living in New York City, struggling to navigate the barriers of language and hardships of discrimination. He comes to understand that language is not his problem, so much as living in a xenophobic society. Will Lobsang be able to break through his turmoil or will he fall deeper into isolation?