​You’re Invited: Private Screening of Where the Light Enters You

​Join us for an exclusive evening to experience a short documentary that touches hearts, inspires action, and sparks meaningful change.

​🎬 About the Film

​In the wake of personal loss, an unexpected sisterhood unites an ambitious New York healthcare worker with a spirited girl from a nomadic tribe in India.

​Where the Light Enters You is a poignant exploration of grief and the profound impact of losing a parent. Through the parallel journeys of two female protagonists, the film examines the systemic barriers that hinder girls’ education and women’s health. At its core, it is a tribute to the strength of female friendship and a powerful call for change.

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​📅 Event Details

• ​Doors Open: 6:30 PM

• ​Film Screening: 37 minutes

• ​Followed by: Q&A with the film team, moderated by Judith Helfand

​Moderated Conversation

​Following the screening, join us for a discussion with the filmmakers.

​Matt Alesevich – Director & Producer
A writer and photojournalist, Matt has lent his voice to Google, Uber, Vice, and Al Jazeera. Since 2013, he has traveled regularly to rural India on medical expeditions, experiences that deeply inform Where the Light Enters You. He brings a storyteller’s lens to themes of loss, resilience, and cross-cultural connection.

​Hemal Trivedi – Director & Producer
An award-winning filmmaker with over two decades of experience, Hemal’s work has earned an Oscar, three Emmys, and a Peabody Award, alongside nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards and Cinema Eye Honors. Known for her powerful documentaries on social justice and human rights, she co-directs Where the Light Enters You with a vision of amplifying underrepresented voices and inspiring systemic change.

​Judith Helfand – Moderator

​A filmmaker, teacher, and media activist, Judith Helfand's documentary films are socially conscious and humorous, politically engaged and personal. She addresses corporate responsibility and health issues in two films that focus on her family. In A Healthy Baby Girl (1997), she presents her mother’s story of taking the potentially harmful drug DES during her pregnancy with Helfand. In Blue Vinyl (2002, co-directed with Daniel Gold), she searches for the origins of her parents’ new vinyl siding. Everything’s Cool(2007, co-directed with Daniel Gold) is about global climate change and those who try to communicate its dangers. Helfand has also run media literacy workshops and engages in political advocacy through her production companies, Working Films and Toxic Comedy Pictures, as well as Chicken and Egg Pictures, which funds women filmmakers.

​💌 We Look Forward to Sharing This Inspiring Evening With You

​Warm regards,
The Where the Light Enters You Team