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2024
UCHRI Care and Repair - Reparaciones by Lorena Alvarado Yehuda Sharim
Responding to Care & Repair, the annual theme set by UCHRI and the UC Humanities Network, UC Merced faculty Lorena Alvarado and Yehuda Sharim offer an intimate peek into the Huntington Park neighborhood of Southeast Los Angeles. We invite you to be transported by Sharim’s photographs as you experience Alvarado’s poetry. The introductory essay includes both English and Spanish versions.
2024
MigraMedia Film Screening with Yehuda Sharim
On March 18, 2024, MigraMedia Münster kicked off this year’s Erasmus+ spring activities by hosting a film screening of Yehuda Sharim’s 2019 documentary, Songs That Never End, with the director himself as guest on campus.
2024
Carnegie to host free viewing of farmworker histories film
UC Merced professor Yehuda Sharim’s film entitled “El Ojo Comienza en la Mano” (2022), which he calls a tribute to campesino (farmworker) histories in rural California told through the art of local farmworker and painter Rubén Sanchéz, has been featured at film festivals across the globe.
2023
Award-winning Films Connecting ‘Unseen’ Communities Around the World
Global Arts Studies Professor Yehuda Sharim ’s film “El Ojo Comienza en la Mano,” a documentary about a Central Valley farm worker who never gave up his love of painting, has been garnering awards and nominations around the world since it came out in 2022.
2023
Reviews From The 25th San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Yehuda Sharim’s short film “The Eye Begins In The Hand” reflects the sad truth that even in the world of art appreciation, a campesino is still seen as just a strong pair of arms. The concept that someone from such a humble background can produce art is inconceivable to the possessor of such a mindset.
2023
Critical Carceral Studies Lab receives grants to continue abolitionist work
The Critical Carceral Studies Lab, a prison abolitionist research project within the Center for Refugee, Migrant, and Displacement Studies at Virginia Tech, received two grants last November to grow their work advocating for a justice system not centered around incarceration.
2022
5Q's w/ Yehuda Sharim "El Ojo Comienza En La Mano" Director — THE BSFF
QUESTION#1: Can you describe your film in one sentence?: El Ojo Comienza En La Mano is a fist full with colors and visions
2022
Merced Premieres Professor's Films as Their International Acclaim Grows
Film festivals across the world continue to reach out to filmmaker and Professor Yehuda Sharim to invite him to screen his latest films "El Ojo Comienza En La Mano" (translated to "The Eye Begins in the Hand") and "Letters2Maybe."
2022
Must-see film tells story of worldclass local artist Ruben Sanchez
The following is a review by Merced resident Samuel Randolph of the premier showings of the film “El Ojo Comienza En La Mano” (“The Eye Begins in the Hand”) which was filmed locally.
2022
Documentary Filmmaking and the Representation of Migrant Lives: An Interview with Yehuda Sharim
The following interview that we conducted with filmmaker and intellectual Yehuda Sharim is part of a double issue on Migrant States of Exception.
2022
Professor's New Film Featuring Campesino Artist to Premiere in Merced
The new film by filmmaker Yehuda Sharim, "El Ojo Comienza En La Mano" ("The Eye Begins in the Hand"), features the life work of Central Valley artist and muralist Rubén A. Sánchez.
2022
Filmfest Bremen Letters2Maybe Q+A
Filmfest Bremen 2022 Q+A with Letters2Maybe Director Yehuda Sharim
2022
The Poetry of Testimony: Letters2Maybe
Letters2Maybe, a documentary feature by filmmaker, writer, and poet Yehuda Sharim, will show at the New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, February 6, 2022.
2022
The Inspirational Documentary Letters2Maybe
Letters2Maybe is an inspirational, integrative film which touches on refugees experiences with their new life in America.
2021
Red Line Lullaby, directed by Yehuda Sharim
Vol. 8 No. 1-2 (2021): Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies by Amanda Ellis
2021
Red Line Lullaby, directed by Yehuda Sharim
Vol. 8 No. 1-2 (2021): Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies by Frances R. Aparicio
2021
New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2022 Letters2Maybe Q+A
New Jersey Film Festival Filmmaker Spring 2022 Q+A with Letters2Maybe Director Yehuda Sharim, Festival Director Al Nigrin and Festival Jurors Capri Leone, and Hamsa Hassan.
2021
Beyond Cinema: Reviews Shared for Professor's Films on Immigrants and Refugees
University of California, Merced Newsroom. Global arts Professor Yehuda Sharim's 2019..
2021
Songs That Never End: A Film by Yehuda Sharim, by George Lipsitz
Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies..
2021
On injustice, awareness and social change
Interview of Yehuda Sharim by Film Poetry of the +the Institute [for Experimental Arts].
