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How We Met Laurel

Directed by Arpita Aneja

12 Min | English | US | 2017 | Documental
family,love,blindness,immigration,reporter | Corto | Open Captions
Producer: Arpita Aneja | Writer: Arpita Aneja
Immigration, Journalism, Kids/family, Love, Politics, Social issues

Laurel, a blind, hardworking, Syrian asylum-seeker, makes a life for himself in the U.S. as his family waits in Turkey for their own visas.

Accessibility aids thanks to support from AppNexus.

Filmmaker Bio

Arpita Aneja is a video journalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She has worked for TIME magazine more than three years and has made countless news videos and short documentaries for time.com.

Disabilities featured:

Vision Loss and Blindness

How We Met Laurel

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