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DESCRIPTION:Nowhere to Call Home provides a rare glimpse into the world of 
 a Tibetan farmer\, torn between her traditional way of life and her desire
  for her son to have a better future in the city. \n\nShot in the slums of
  Beijing and a remote village\, this gripping story of a woman determined 
 to beat the odds puts a human face on the political strife that fractures 
 China and Tibet. Along the way it challenges common western stereotypes ab
 out Tibetans\, and reveals a dark side of village life\, where\, as the sa
 ying goes\, ‘women aren’t worth a penny.’\n\nWidowed at 28\, Tibetan
  farmer Zanta defies her tyrannical father-in-law and refuses to marry his
  only surviving son\, who is in prison for armed robbery. When Zanta’s i
 n-laws won’t let her seven-year-old go to school\, she flees to Beijing 
 to become a street vendor. Destitute\, and embattled by ethnic discriminat
 ion she inveigles a foreign customer into helping pay her boy’s school f
 ees. \n\nWhen the three travel back to Zanta’s village for the New Year 
 holiday\, Zanta’s father-in-law takes her son hostage.  The unwitting Am
 erican journalist faces a tough decision: does she intervene in the violen
 t family dispute\, or watch in silence as Zanta and Yang Qing face abuses 
 typically borne by Tibetan widows and their children. \n\nAbout the Direct
 or\n\nJocelyn Ford is a Beijing-based award-winning public radio  journali
 st and filmmaker who has reported from Asia for three decades. Her audio w
 ork can be heard on Marketplace (Tokyo and Beijing bureau chief 1994-2006)
 \, Radio Lab\, The World and other public radio programs. Her award-winnin
 g 2014 documentary Nowhere To Call Home: A Tibetan in Beijing has been tra
 nslated into 11 languages.\n\nFor more information and to register\, pleas
 e visit https://china.usc.edu/calendar/screening-nowhere-call-home.
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LOCATION:Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism (ASC)\, 204
SUMMARY:Screening: Nowhere To Call Home
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CATEGORIES:Arts
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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