Time for Ilhan

Synopsis

Emmy Award-winning film about the journey of rising political star Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the nation’s first Somali Muslim legislator, and her quest to redefine politics in America. Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. Challenging her party’s status quo while simultaneously defying lingering gender norms within her own Muslim community, Ilhan's story offers a bold and hopeful vision for a more representative, reflective democracy.

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Our Role

Making Change Media is coordinating the national impact campaign, the Time for Ilhan Take Action Screening Tour. Its primary goal is to engage, activate, and mobilize audiences to join the movement for a more representative, reflective democracy. We are partnering with grassroots groups, national organizations, schools, and universities to host dynamic screening events that connect audiences with opportunities to get involved from training to run for public office or supporting a local candidate to getting involved with local efforts to support refugee and immigrant rights and to combat racism, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism. The screening tour runs from March 2019 through the 2020 elections. Time for Ilhan has held 90+ events so far, with more than 60 currently in the works. Our local and national screening partners include VoteRunLead, New American Leaders Project, MoveOn, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Mpower Change, Democracy For America, Netroots Nation, Young Elected Officials Network, Hot Docs “Docs for Schools," We Are All America, New Florida Majority, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, She the People, and many more.