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Everybody to Kenmure Street: “There’s clearly something larger than life that happens when people put themselves on the line for the benefit of their community.”
In this vHopeful conversation, I speak with Chilean-Belgian filmmaker Felipe Bustos Sierra about his exhilarating Sundance-winning documentary, Everybody to Kenmure Street, which brings us inside the extraordinary eight-hour 2021 uprising in Glasgow’s Pollokshields neighborhood, when hundreds of neighbors gathered on the first day of Eid to stop a Home Office van from deporting two local men. Felipe reflects on why he initially did not go, how the legacy of his family’s Chilean exile and the Scottish solidarity at the heart of his first film, Nae Pasaran, shaped his response, and what he…
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