Film on Scotland community resisting immigration raid wins Sundance award
Documentary ‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ is about the day hundreds of people in Glasgow gathered to prevent two neighbours being detained
A documentary about a community resisting an immigration raid in Scotland has won an award at a major film festival.
Everybody To Kenmure Street was recognised with the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance at the Sundance Film Festival in the US.
The film documents events on May 13, 2021, when hundreds of people gathered in Kenmure Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow to prevent two of their neighbours being detained.
The two men were released after protesters surrounded the immigration enforcement van for several hours, with one person lying underneath the vehicle.
The documentary combines crowd-sourced footage filmed on the day with set-designed scenes and archive material.
It was directed by Scotland-based, Chilean-Belgian filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra who said: “I am so delighted. As filmmakers we are only vessels for what happened on Kenmure Street.