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Fantastic news! The highly anticipated Indigo Girls documentary “It’s Only Life After All” makes its second festival appearance in Austin at SXSW!! I cannot wait to see this film!! So grateful it’s coming to my neck of the woods!! #indigogirls #amyray #emilysaliers #alexandriabombach #ItsOnlyLifeAfterAll #multitudefilms@ #musicdocumentary #SXSWselection #sxsw #austintx #filmfestival https://www.instagram.com/p/CoJF05du-xS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Helena practices swimming in a private pool just for women in Kabul, Afghanistan. Helena was born in Iran, but her family is Afghan and has been back in Afghanistan for the last 11 years. She learned swimming from watching YouTube tutorials and hopes that Afghanistan will one day have its own women’s swim team. She says that right now her family is 50/50 on whether to leave or stay in Afghanistan. Sometimes she feels like things are settling down, but when each explosion happens, her family starts to reconsider. “My situation depends on the conditions in Afghanistan. If the conditions are same as they are now, then it’s okay, maybe I'm used to it now. But if it gets worse and as time passes, a suicide attack takes place today, another suicide attack happens tomorrow, obviously you have to make a decision to leave. Nothing is sweeter than your life.”

Image and caption by Alexandria Bombach. Afghanistan, 2016.

For more of Alexandria’s reporting, visit her project “Afghanistan By Choice.”

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Who’s chomping at the bit to see Amy & Emily tell their stories in IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL?? Maybe it will stream—maybe it will be on DVD…however it it’s delivered I am IN!! #indigogirls #amyray #emilysaliers #itsonlylifeafterall #alexandriabombach #multitudefilms #documentary #music documentary #georgiaduo #indieartists #womeninmusic #folkrock #americana #sundancefilmfestival #sundanceselection #GOAT #bestof2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnvRIgpuSid/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Y’all we are VERY close to the premier of the Indigo Girls documentary It’s Only Life After All. This time tomorrow Sundance moviegoers will take in the fruit of several years’ work by talented director Alexandria Bombach! And once Sundance concludes, the film begins its journey into the minds and hearts of Indigo Girls fans everywhere. Best wishes and gratitude to Alexandria Bombach, Jessica Delvaney, Kathlyn Horan and the Multitude Films folx for giving our beloved Amy and Emily their cinematic due!! Cannot wait to take it in!! #indigogirls #amyray #emilysaliers #alexandriabombach #multitudefilms #itsonlylifeafterall #sundancefilmfestival #musicdocumentary #musicfilm #activists #icons #singersongwriters #georgiaduo #womeninmusic #americanavoices #grammywinners #girlswithguitars #folkrock #halloffame #wshof #GOAT #bestof2023 https://www.instagram.com/p/CnlHxtGu6yO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It’s coming—to SUNDANCE!!! “It’s Only Life After All” is the long awaited documentary about the extraordinary Indigo Girls will be debuting at the Sundance Festival on Opening Night!! Hugely exciting for Amy, Emily and their countless fans! #indigogirls #amyray #emilysaliers #alexandriabombach #itsonlylifeafterall #musicdocumentsry #sundancefilmfestival #musiconfilm #documentary #newfilm #multitudefilms #jessicadevaney #bestof2023 #goatsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4TogROkXK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Arash Seddiqi packs a suitcase in his apartment in Kabul, Afghanistan a few days before his flight out of the country. Arash recently received a “Special Immigration Visa” to live in the United States. He says he had other opportunities to leave, but he never considered it before now. The turning point for him was the death of 27-year-old Farkhunda who was publicly beaten and murdered by a mob after accusations that she had burned a Quran. Arash now lives in Sacramento, California.

“I stayed behind because I strongly believed that all the effort that the international communities were putting into this country and all the efforts that the people who I knew were putting in honestly to fix it - to move this country forward… that it would bring a result for us. But unfortunately, the 2014 election was the breaking point. That’s when I submitted my Special Immigration Visa application. I got approved, but I still had this feeling that maybe things will work out.  Maybe this unit of government will be better, maybe this place will become a better place. But, it was the breaking point when they killed Farkhunda.  Downtown, when she was killed by a group of young people, that’s when I was like, “this is the mentality of our young people here?” And we are living in the capital of this country.  What have we done wrong? What have we done wrong?” – Arash Seddiqi

Image and caption by Alexandria Bombach. Afghanistan, 2016.

For more of Alexandria’s reporting, visit her project “Afghanistan By Choice.”