Letters2Maybe
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a film by Yehuda Sharim

This film is based on events and dreams that took place in Houston, TX and Merced, CA from 2015-2020

Letters2Maybe offers an intimate portrayal of those who refuse to surrender amidst daily devastation and culminating strife, offering a vision for equality and a renewed sense of solidarity in a divisive country. Letters2Maybe offers a fluid and eclectic tapestry of physical and emotional movement of different immigrant communities as they encounter impossible challenges in a country of compounded catastrophes. By embracing a kaleidoscopic style of storytelling to highlight the poetics and precarity that follow the craving for freedom, Letters2Maybe is an unfinished letter, articulating the ever-growing yet unflinching demand for justice and tenderness in our world today.

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FEATURING

Nancy Adossi
Hussein Al-Khudari
Abbas Dayan
Hanna Dayan
Ali Dayan
Samira Dayan
Ilya & Helia Dayan
Karla De Jesus
Ana María Fabián Lomeli

DIRECTOR/ EDITOR/ CINEMATOGRAPHER: Yehuda Sharim
ORIGINAL MUSIC: Federico Llach
SOUND ART:  Scott Szabo        
POSTER DESIGN & ART: Richard Gomez
COLOR: Frederick Trevino, Beambox Studio
SUBTITLES: Arianna Marino
PRODUCTION TEAM: Alondra Martinez & Taara Clarke
SPANISH TRANSLATION: Alma Cabrera-Alvarado
CREATIVE PRODUCER: J. Alex Mathews
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Sharim StudioTechnical
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TECH/SPECS

HD-Digital, Color
‍Filmed in: Houston, Texas and Merced, California
Year: 2021
‍Running time: 1:30:05
‍Ratio: 16:9
‍Digital frame rate:  23.976
‍Screening format: Blue-Ray, DCP, DVD
‍Language: English, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Spanish,Tigrinya
Subtitles: English and Spanish

Letters2Maybe has been made possible with support from the following organizations:

Critical Refugees Studies Collective
SIMA Studios
The Center for the Humanities at UCM
The Chancellor of University California, Merced
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