Invisible Identity

CORE Foundation works to bring education about Sikhism and Sikh identity into elementary, middle, and high schools, giving young Sikh students a framework for understanding their own faith and history in an educational setting that rarely makes space for it. The film captures the foundation's approach: not evangelism, but education, designed to give Sikh students confidence in who they are and to give their non-Sikh classmates a clearer picture of a community they likely know little about.

The title speaks to the experience that many Sikh young people describe: being present in a room but having their identity, their history, and their culture be effectively invisible to everyone around them. CORE's work makes that identity visible, and the film shows what that can mean for a student who has never had their community represented in a classroom before. It's a film about the difference that basic cultural education can make in a child's sense of belonging.