Documentary Maker: ‘I am from Xinjing,’ Oct. 1

Kurbanjan Samat, maker of the documentary “I am from Xinjiang”

Filmmaker Kurbanjan Samat talks about the documentary video “I am from Xinjing” Thursday, Oct. 1, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the Friends of the Library Room in Alden Library.

Samat is a prominent independent freelancer photographer and filmmaker who is a native Xinjiang Uyghur Muslim. His documentary is about the Xinjiang native people’s life in mainland China. For his work, he was invited by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in June 2015 to take part in the celebration of the 36^th anniversary of the formal diplomatic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China. Read more about Samat with BBC and CNN stories.

This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored in part by the Making & Breaking the Law theme, the War & Peace theme, and the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University.