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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].

2021

Three Films of Yehuda Sharim, by John T. Caldwell

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2020): Kalfou: A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies. Within our current moment..

2021

Film Review: Songs That Never End (2019)

by Asha L. Abeyasekera in Urbanities - Journal of Urban Ethnography.

2021

New Merced multimedia exhibit about Central Valley life set to debut at MAC

New Merced multimedia exhibit about Central Valley life set to debut at MAC