If there is a will, there is a way. ¡Querer es poder! The achievement of dreams – A personal story of immigration from El Salvador to Canada - Dec. 2015
- Title
-
If there is a will, there is a way. íQuerer es poder!
The achievement of dreams – A personal story of immigration from El Salvador to Canada - Dec. 2015 - Description
-
The processes of self-discovery, the forming of passions and the achievement of successes are true measures of accomplishment. This portrait shall start with the story of 12-year old Selvin who had to uproot and relocate his life from El Salvador to Canada.
The video shall progress through the hopes and dreams of the 12 year old child and show how he grew and adapted to achieve them. With a focus on real-life heroes as those who overcome adversity and achieve their goals – parallels shall be drawn between Selvin’s hero, mentor and role-model, his father, and Selvin himself. Done in a story-board/comic book form the portrait shall embrace Selvin’s childhood hopes and express his transformation in attitude, goals and dreams as he grows up in Canada, where he and his family build their El Salvadorian-Canadian identity.
Slevin’s core values of family and community are consistently embedded in his actions from childhood onwards. The overcoming of obstacles he faced as a new immigrant, minority in society and simply as a human in a competitive world, shall show that “Where there is a will, there is a way”. Selvin’s infallible and persistent attitude shall serve as an inspiration to the portrait’s viewers and will surely be a testament to true success. - Subject
- Selvin Mejia: From childhood aspirations to community leader.
- Creator
- Anu Lalith Kumar
- Source
- Original
- Publisher
- Bridging Classroom and Community: Languages and Cultures in Action, Western University, Fall 2015
- Date
- December 8th, 2015
- Contributor
- Selvin Mejia
- Rights
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Relation
- Is Part of the Hispanic Collection
- Format
- Video
- Language
- Spanish and English. English translations and subtitles are always present.
- Type
- Moving Image
- Item sets
- Hispanic Collection