Tribal filmmakers in Rochester for Cultural exchange

Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:44:17 -0400

ROCHESTER — A rare cultural exchange is taking place this week as a group of young filmmakers from Nagaland, a remote tribal region in India that borders Burma/Myanmar, visits the United States for the first time to debut their work in Rochester.

Heather Layton, artist and senior lecturer of art at the University of Rochester, along with her husband, Brian Bailey, professor in adolescent education at Nazareth College, will host the filmmakers during their nearly two-week stay. The seeds for this trip to America were planted last December when Bailey and Layton were invited to Nagaland for two weeks to foster international relations and promote the arts as a form of cultural diplomacy.

“This is a tremendous opportunity to connect two sides of the world using film, music, and visual arts as the common ground,” says Layton. The goal of the project, as explained by Layton, is to create a productive and sustainable international exchange through artistic collaborations.

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