Hoda Muthana, Alabama ‘ISIS Bride,’ says in new documentary she was ‘brainwashed,’ wants to come home AL.com 58 mins ago Carol Robinson, al.com
Alabama “ISIS Bride” Hoda Muthana, who left her Hoover family in 2014 to the Islamic State in Syria, is featured in a new documentary in which she explains why she joined ISIS and why she now wants to come home.
“When you are brainwashed, you don’t realize it until you snap out of it. I took everything too fast and too deep,” Muthana, now 26, told Spanish filmmaker Alba Sotorra Clua in the new documentary ‘The Return: Life After ISIS.’
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Brooke Pepion Swaney, a Blackfeet and Salish filmmaker, directed a film that is airing on Wednesday at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York.
Pepion Swaney, 40, grew up on the Flathead Indian Reservation and in Helena; she now lives in Polson. Her film, Daughter of a Lost Bird,
follows Kendra Mylenchuk Potter in her quest to understand her Indigenous identity.
Mylenchuk Potter was adopted at birth by a white family. In the film, she reconnects with her birth mother, April, who is a member of the Lummi Nation, a tribe headquartered in northwest Washington. As Mylenchuk Potter grapples with her Indigenous identity, she learns that her birth mother was also adopted by a white family.
Three women who were incarcerated in the Ohio prison system are featured in a new film that debuts Thursday as part of the 32nd annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival, which this year is virtual.
In January, nearly 3,400 women were incarcerated in Ohio’s prisons, many of them mothers. The film points out that the number of incarcerated women across the country has increased 800 percent since the nation s war on drugs began in the 1970s, and that about 80 percent of those jailed are mothers. Apart, from Red Antelope films, was directed by Jennifer Redfearn and produced by Tim Metzger. Redfearn will be among those participating in an online question and answer session Thursday at 8:30 p.m. after a screening of the film at 7 p.m.