Director/Producer: Robyn Woolston
Photographer: Robyn Woolston
Lighting Cameraman: John Czerepaninec
Dur: 10 mins
Screening: Sat 6th March 2004, UGC Broad Street, 12.00pm

Émigré is directed and produced by Robyn Woolston, and is based on the true story of her great grandparents, Jews from Lemburg, Poland (now Levov, Ukraine) and Vilna (now Vilnius - Belarus), who emigrated to Birmingham from Eastern Europe in 1881.

Their descendants went on to establish a well-known business in the city's Jewellery Quarter ­ Harman Brothers ­ which is still there today!

Robyn brings the story right up to date by comparing her ancestor's experiences with immigrants arriving in the Midlands today.

Shot entirely on location in Birmingham, including the synagogue on Pershore Road, as well as in the offices of the city's Immigration and Advisory Service.

Read an interview with Robyn
on the making of Émigré