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US immigration activist's movie premiers
An autobiographical documentary by one of Americaâs best known immigrantsliving in the US illegally has opened an independent film festival in his homecountry of the Philippines to applause, laughter and tears
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n autobiographical documentary by one of America's best known immigrantsliving in the US illegally has opened an independent film festival in his homecountry of the Philippines to applause, laughter and tears.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and now immigration activist Jose Antonio Vargas' mother received a certificate of recognition on his behalf at the 10th Cinemalaya film festival in Manila on Friday night.
Documented was
written, directed and produced by Vargas, who has worked for The Huffington
Post, San Francisco Chronicle and Philadelphia Daily News,
and was part of a Washington Post team that won a Pulitzer
in 2008 for its report on the 2007 Virginia Tech shootings.
