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Recounts the impact of migrants on the African Methodist Episcopal church. Philadelphia’s Mother Bethel AME, the nation’s oldest African-American church, served as a local community partner, as well as Mother Emmanuel Church in Charleston, SC, the site of the 2015 mass shooting.

Based on a short piece of writing about a true and actual event, this short film was created by Josiah Scheidel, adapted from his own work. The film features a teen-aged boy who, upon spotting an abandoned umbrella sitting in the street, wonders at whether to ignore it and continue on his way or take it home.