Brent E. Huffman
@brenthuffman.bsky.social
#Documentary Filmmaker/Professor
Director of Documentary #Journalism at #Northwestern
Director of "Saving Mes Aynak"
New documentary about #Yemen
Passionate about #humanrights, #socialjustice #heritage
#Afghanistan #China
www.germancamera.com
Director of Documentary #Journalism at #Northwestern
Director of "Saving Mes Aynak"
New documentary about #Yemen
Passionate about #humanrights, #socialjustice #heritage
#Afghanistan #China
www.germancamera.com
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"Far from Home" is now an Oscar-qualified short #documentary!
Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!
Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!
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Incredible news - legendary actor Naseeruddin Shah has joined the award-winning documentary "Far from Home"!
We are thrilled to have his support.
You can view the trailer for this documentary (just recently Oscar qualified) here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyka...
We are thrilled to have his support.
You can view the trailer for this documentary (just recently Oscar qualified) here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyka...
October 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Incredible news - legendary actor Naseeruddin Shah has joined the award-winning documentary "Far from Home"!
We are thrilled to have his support.
You can view the trailer for this documentary (just recently Oscar qualified) here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyka...
We are thrilled to have his support.
You can view the trailer for this documentary (just recently Oscar qualified) here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lyka...
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Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."
For once, I believe him.
For once, I believe him.
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Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
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Imagine being forced from your home country only to be persecuted in the next? That is the story in "Far from Home" chronicling the lives of an #Afghan family who fled their home after the #Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and now faces deportation in #India.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Afghan Refugee Doc ‘Far From Home’ Adds Indian Thespian Naseeruddin Shah as Executive Producer in Oscar Push (EXCLUSIVE)
Revered Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah has joined the Oscar-qualifying documentary 'Far From Home' as executive producer.
variety.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Imagine being forced from your home country only to be persecuted in the next? That is the story in "Far from Home" chronicling the lives of an #Afghan family who fled their home after the #Taliban takeover in Afghanistan and now faces deportation in #India.
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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"Far from Home" is now an Oscar-qualified short #documentary!
Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!
Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!
September 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Far from Home" is now an Oscar-qualified short #documentary!
Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!
Please join me in supporting this beautiful and moving award-winning film chronicling the situation for #Afghan refugees in #India!
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Big congrats to my students Esther Lim and Jankhna Sura for winning Best Documentary at the #Chicago Mulit-Cultural Film Festival for their film "Jeffery, Come Home" created in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice class @medillschool.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Big congrats to my students Esther Lim and Jankhna Sura for winning Best Documentary at the #Chicago Mulit-Cultural Film Festival for their film "Jeffery, Come Home" created in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice class @medillschool.bsky.social
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Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Never forget who sold us out:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
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Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
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Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
November 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
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So after all of this, the Dems got a deal that is just a promise of a vote on ACA subsidies in December that isn't guaranteed to pass. Absolute chickenshit stuff from senate Democrats. They couldn't even get the thing they were asking for.
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
So after all of this, the Dems got a deal that is just a promise of a vote on ACA subsidies in December that isn't guaranteed to pass. Absolute chickenshit stuff from senate Democrats. They couldn't even get the thing they were asking for.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
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"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Hundreds of Thousands of Anonymous Deportees
Amid the president’s fast-moving deportation campaign, the stories of most people being swept up are missed.
www.theatlantic.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
"For every person arrested whose name and story we’ve learned, there are thousands we haven’t heard about." @caitlindickerson.bsky.social via @theatlantic.com ⬇️
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The silence of congressional Republicans to all the Trump corruption - from his disgusting pardons, to the UAE crypto money, to the Qatari jet, and the ballroom, should be used against all of them in midterms along with their silence on tariffs which has made things unaffordable.
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The silence of congressional Republicans to all the Trump corruption - from his disgusting pardons, to the UAE crypto money, to the Qatari jet, and the ballroom, should be used against all of them in midterms along with their silence on tariffs which has made things unaffordable.
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You can watch "Far from Home" in LA at the AMC Century City 10 on Nov 11 at 1.30 pm, Rodeo Screening Room in Beverly Hills on Nov 22 at 2 pm, the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Dec 3 at 6 pm, and the University of San Francisco on Jan 31, 2026 at 11 am.
November 4, 2025 at 5:26 PM
You can watch "Far from Home" in LA at the AMC Century City 10 on Nov 11 at 1.30 pm, Rodeo Screening Room in Beverly Hills on Nov 22 at 2 pm, the National Press Club in Washington, DC on Dec 3 at 6 pm, and the University of San Francisco on Jan 31, 2026 at 11 am.
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Yet another example of Trump shooting the US in the foot. Our abdication of moral leadership in international institutions like the UN, WHO, G20, and ICC only serves to allow our adversaries the opportunity to expand their influence on the world stage while we suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
Trump says US will skip G20 in South Africa
President Trump said on Friday that the United States will not be part of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa, calling it “a total disgrace.” “Afrikaners (People…
thehill.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Yet another example of Trump shooting the US in the foot. Our abdication of moral leadership in international institutions like the UN, WHO, G20, and ICC only serves to allow our adversaries the opportunity to expand their influence on the world stage while we suffer.
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
thehill.com/homenews/adm...
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Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."
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“We don’t exaggerate the sins any more than we exaggerate the triumphs.” The National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, is expanding its exploration of civil rights history in the U.S. despite a surge of resistance from the Trump administration. nyti.ms/3JL3PZK
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“We don’t exaggerate the sins any more than we exaggerate the triumphs.” The National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia, is expanding its exploration of civil rights history in the U.S. despite a surge of resistance from the Trump administration. nyti.ms/3JL3PZK
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‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
Decision by international court of justice hailed as a gamechanger for climate justice and accountability
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‘Existential and urgent’: what impact will ICJ climate ruling have on Cop30?
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UPDATE: A Israeli military court has extended the prison detention of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release.
An Israeli military court extends detention of U.S. teen charged with stone-throwing
A Israeli military court has extended the prison detention of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release.
n.pr
November 9, 2025 at 4:53 PM
UPDATE: A Israeli military court has extended the prison detention of a 16-year-old Palestinian-American facing up to 20 years in prison for allegedly throwing rocks in the West Bank. U.S. lawmakers have urged his release.
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A decade after Northwestern University alumna Roberta Buffett Elliott gifted $101 million to establish the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, her mission to transform global studies at Northwestern continues to thrive—empowering students & faculty to tackle challenging global problems.
November 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A decade after Northwestern University alumna Roberta Buffett Elliott gifted $101 million to establish the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, her mission to transform global studies at Northwestern continues to thrive—empowering students & faculty to tackle challenging global problems.
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Congrats to @brenthuffman.bsky.social who was awarded with a @buffett.northwestern.edu Faculty Fellowship to pursue his research. His documentary, “Yemen Mosaic,” is about Yemeni women working to save the cultural heritage of Yemen as they face threats including war and climate change.
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Congrats to @brenthuffman.bsky.social who was awarded with a @buffett.northwestern.edu Faculty Fellowship to pursue his research. His documentary, “Yemen Mosaic,” is about Yemeni women working to save the cultural heritage of Yemen as they face threats including war and climate change.
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Air traffic controllers are resigning due to the stress inflicted by the government shutdown, a union president warned
Air Traffic Controllers Union Head Gives Dire Warning About How This Shutdown's Different
Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said workers have gone too long without paychecks to work safely.
www.huffpost.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Air traffic controllers are resigning due to the stress inflicted by the government shutdown, a union president warned
Big congrats to my students Esther Lim and Jankhna Sura for winning Best Documentary at the #Chicago Mulit-Cultural Film Festival for their film "Jeffery, Come Home" created in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice class @medillschool.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Big congrats to my students Esther Lim and Jankhna Sura for winning Best Documentary at the #Chicago Mulit-Cultural Film Festival for their film "Jeffery, Come Home" created in my Documenting #Carceral Injustice class @medillschool.bsky.social
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