Welcome Strangers (Good Docs)
Short Documentary
Director and Producer: Dia Sokol Savage
Director of Photography: Matthias Grunsky
When asylum-seeking immigrants are released from an ICE detention facility onto unfamiliar streets near Denver, Colorado, where can they go for help? Since 2012, Sarah Jackson and her team of volunteers at Casa de Paz have welcomed them into her home and helped to reunite them with their families.
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Awards:
Best Short Documentary, Boulder FIlm Festival
Best Short Documentary, Durango Film Festival
Best Short Film, Frozen River Film Festival
Women in Film Award, Telluride Mountainfilm
People’s Choice Award, Compassion Film Festival
Jury Award, Palm Springs Shortfest
Special Mention - Emerging Documentary, March on Washington Film Festival
Honorable mention, Pittsburgh Shorts Festival
The Tom and Ginny Knoll Family Award, Cleveland International Film Festival
Featured by The Aspen Times on their "Ones to Watch" list