When the New Stockholm Film Commission accepts her funding proposal for a documentary, Zeynab Abdi is “flabbergasted” by the outcome. Wanting to explore the effects of gentrification within her former neighbourhood, she explains her connection to the place: “The child of political asylum seekers, she strategically discloses her personal history, namely, the adjacent social housing project into which she was born and raised.” She speaks to the selection committee of “its cultural…
Bronwyn Averett
Bronwyn Averett is a writer and translator in Montreal. She holds a doctorate from Emory University in Atlanta.