There are 70 million forcibly displaced persons globally. Of these only 1 percent will ever be resettled. The International Organization of Migration (IOM) said that the Bhutanese resettlement was the largest and most successful third-country resettlement ever undertaken. (2015). Bhutanese-Canadians are experts in the lived experience of being forcibly displaced, living as refugees, and then making a new and successful life in a country more culturally different than the one they were forced to leave. They know what worked well and what didn't go well in all of these areas, and have experienced more deeply than most of society will understand, the terrible cost of a loss of good will between cultural groups. The film is a collective, collaborative pathway of meaning-making out of the experience of what happened, facilitated according to the creative hopes of participants as their skills and vision evolved in cyclical process of transformative film making. The Story Bridge Film contains a broad range of information about this lived experience and can be a starting point for understanding and preventing forced migration, and appreciating the gift it is to engage across cultures.
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