Meet We Se: A Burmese Refugee Navigates a New Country, a short film by the Columbia University Journalism, won a 2009 Webby Award for video in the student category. Here’s a synopsis of the short:

Schoolteacher We Se arrived in New York from a refugee camp in Thailand in November 2007. He was forced to flee there after the Burmese army attacked his village and shot his father dead. We Se said his Christian faith gave him the strength to survive. Now he looks to God for guidance as he builds a new life in the Big Apple.

Learn more about the stories of Burmese refugees here.

Meet We Se: A Burmese Refugee Navigates a New Country