Short of the Week
Almeda
Directed by Paul Hairston · 2022
When the Almeda Fire tore through Southern Oregon in September 2020, it destroyed over 2,800 structures, many in close-knit immigrant mobile home communities; this documentary listens to the people who lived there.
An intimate look at a disaster's human cost, centering immigrant families whose stories are often left out of wildfire headlines.
On September 8th, 2020 the Almeda Fire tore through Southern Oregon and burned more than 2,800 structures. Many belonged to tightly knit immigrant mobile home communities, some generations old.
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