ABOUT THE EVENT

Join director David Novack, editor Nancy Novack and protagonist Jewher Ilham (daughter of imprisoned for life scholar Ilham Tohti) for the New York Premiere of the award-winning documentary All Static & Noise. Tightly edited and beautifully scored, this film features atrocities occurring in the western region of China among Uyghur and Kazakh people.  Brought to the screen by those directly impacted by the crisis, the film not only highlights a story that everyone should know about, but it offers hope in the resiliency and determination of its heroes.  

SYNOPSIS

When Uyghurs and Kazakhs are arbitrarily detained in "re-education" camps by Chinese authorities, camp survivors and their families risk everything to expose the truth in order to inspire change.

Jewher, a Uyghur teen from China with no English, lands in the US after she is violently separated from her father at the Beijing airport as he is detained. Abduweli, a linguist and poet imprisoned and tortured for teaching Uyghur language to 6-year-olds, makes his way to Istanbul upon his release. Testimony and action from survivors of China’s network of “re-education camps" and their families, in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Europe and the United States, infuse All Static & Noise with an urgency that exposes the mass brutality of state-sponsored oppression in Western China. Together these voices highlight the moral dilemma between risking the safety of families back home by speaking out and the necessity of exposing atrocities in the hope that global awareness will bring change.

"All Static & Noise is for sure a necessary film because it breaks the silence. It tells the world about the Uyghur people and how they are both vulnerable and strong. And that matters. The story of their abuse and oppression, paradoxically, is both unique and also universal in the resilience and the strength of character it calls for. And for the audience – there is a moral call to action, to know and to remember, as watching this film is bearing witness from the beginning to the end. "  

-- Modern Times Review