February 9, 2014 - On a recent cold Friday night in Boston, filmmaker Angela Counts screened her masters thesis film, FLOWER CHILD, to a packed audience. During an artist talk, Counts shared a very personal story of the journey that brought her from a career at Harvard to life as an arts graduate student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Northeastern University. Prepping for the artist talk. Artist Talk Counts shared with the audience how her decision to go back to school was inspired by a reunion with her Muslim father, after a 17-year absence. Father and daughter crossed continents and the region of the Middle East to find themselves trying to bridge their estrangement by meeting in Italy in 2008 . For Counts, it was her first trip to Europe. Counts is a playwright by training, and for a time she lived in New York City after winning the Lorraine Hansberry award for her play, Hedy Understands Anxiety . But she noted that on this momentous tr
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