{"id":56863,"date":"2018-08-28T02:19:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56863"},"modified":"2018-08-28T02:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:19:52","slug":"alien-citizen-an-earth-odyssey-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56863","title":{"rendered":"Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey, the Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/aliencitizen\/ALIEN-CITIZEN-AEO-the-Movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey, the Movie<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>HapaLis Productions<br \/>\n2017<\/p>\n<p>Written by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabeth-liang-26976510\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elizabeth Liang<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nDirected by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1231789\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sofie Calderon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Winner: 2018 Calcutta International Cult Film Festival<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/aliencitizen\/ALIEN-CITIZEN-AEO-the-Movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pswp__img\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BZmM3Nzc1YzktNDhlYy00YWExLWFhNTgtY2QzYjM4MWNjZGFjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTEwMDM2OQ@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,709,1000_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"Elizabeth Liang in ALIEN CITIZEN: An Earth Odyssey (2017)\" width=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Who are you when you&#8217;re from everywhere and nowhere?<\/p>\n<p><em>ALIEN CITIZEN: An Earth Odyssey<\/em> is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up as a dual citizen of mixed heritage in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Central_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Central America<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Africa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Africa<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_East\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Middle East<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_England\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New England<\/a>. Elizabeth Liang is a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_nomad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Nomad<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Third_culture_kid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Third Culture Kid<\/a> (TCK). Third Culture Kids are the children of educators, international business people, diplomats, missionaries, the military&#8211;anyone whose family has relocated overseas, usually because of a job placement.<\/p>\n<p>Liang weaves humorous stories about growing up as an Alien Citizen abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, &#8220;racial ambiguity,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Culture_shock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture shock<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Clark_Gable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clark Gable<\/a>, bullying, and sandstorms. Our protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women&#8217;s college in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA<\/a>, <em>Alien Citizen<\/em> reflects her experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself? Humor is a great survival mechanism &#8211; and friends make all the difference.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S-tbB2YxSH8?rel=0&amp;controls=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are you when you&#8217;re from everywhere and nowhere?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,16,21,125,8,20,842],"tags":[12423,28968,14567,28970,28969],"class_list":["post-56863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-asia","category-latincarib","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-videos","tag-elizabeth-liang","tag-hapalis-productions","tag-sofie-calderon","tag-tck","tag-third-culture-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56864,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56863\/revisions\/56864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}