Sponsored Project
With Wings And Roots
Filmmaker: Director/Producer: Christina Antonakos-Wallace
Fiscal Sponsorship Year: 2010
Film Type: Documentary
Currently in production, With Wings And Roots is a feature-length documentary and multi-platform project set in Berlin and New York that explores what gets termed “assimilation” in the USA and “integration” in Germany. Set in two countries currently struggling with immigration and national identity, the film tells the stories of six children of immigrants from diverse backgrounds who are striving to expand their definitions of belonging. A wedding, a new career, applying for citizenship – through vérité footage and in-depth conversations, the protagonists go through personal rites of passage, each facing questions identity and belonging and finding different ways to root themselves. With Wings And Roots takes a transnational approach to explore how young people in one old and one new immigration society are redefining culture, citizenship, race, and belonging in this era of unprecedented global migration. See a trailer here.