This is Home: A Refugee Story - EPIX, Gidalya Pictures & Blumhouse

This feature-length documentary gave unique insight into the mechanics and challenges of refugee assimilation, with extraordinary depth and detail, to capture what it is to be a refugee.

Director Alexandra Shiva spoke with Lisa R. Cohen, Director of Prizes administering the duPont-Columbia Awards at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism for the On Assignment podcast. Shiva discusses the core challenges in telling this story, from bridging major language and cultural barriers; to trying to shoot and edit at the same time; to the fine line needed to tell the story of a politically divisive topic in a way that’s accessible across party lines.

CREDITS

Director/Producer: Alexandra Shiva

Producer: Lindsey Megrue

Executive Producers: Princess Firyal of Jordan, Jason Blum, Jill Burkhart, Patty Quillin

Editor: Toby Shimin

Director of Photography: Laela Kilbourn

Composer: T. Griffin

Co-Executive Producers: Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Yvonne Huff Lee, Jason Delane Lee

Co-Producer: Stu Pollard