(NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ) -- The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) will present a free screening of the documentary film Running To Stand Still – Migrants Search For Hope In The Promised Land on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 6:00pm. The film runs 25 minutes and there will be a 45-60 minute talkback afterwards.
The documentary is about the humanitarian crisis on the U.S. / Mexico border. Running seeks to put a human face on the immigration “issue” by telling heartbreaking and inspiring stories about the migrants themselves—courageous and dignified human beings whose lives stand as a powerful rebuke to a narrative that is fraught with hatred, alarmist rhetoric, and dehumanizing stereotypes.
Filming for Running began in the Rio Grande Valley in 2022, with filming in Matamoros and Reynosa, Mexico, and in June 2023 in El Paso and Juárez, Mexico. Footage includes stories from refugee children and their families; visits to shelters and camps; and narrative interviews with social workers, psychologists, nuns, activists, pastors, and full-time volunteers. Essential interviews, observations, and stories will come from the children themselves.
Admission is free. Reserve your tickets online. There is a limit of 4 tickets per guest.
The New Brunswick Performing Arts Center (NBPAC) is located at 11 Livingston Avenue in New Brunswick, New Jersey. NBPAC is a transformational project that has propelled New Brunswick’s Downtown Cultural Arts District into the spotlight as the region’s most exciting and dynamic performing arts center. NBPAC features two state-of-the-art theatrical venues in the Elizabeth Ross Johnson and Arthur Laurents Theaters, dedicated rehearsal studios, collaborative work spaces for arts organizations across the region, as well as 207 residential rental apartments and public parking. With an investment of more than $170 million, the public-private partnership between DEVCO, the City of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, Pennrose, NJEDA, New Brunswick Cultural Center, Rutgers University, and New Brunswick Parking Authority is one of the most significant urban development initiatives in New Jersey.