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Traveling Immigration Film Festival
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Festival Information
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Homepage:
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http://www.lasamericasfilms.org/ImmigrationSP07.htm
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Short Festival Promotion:
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Las Américas Film Network is pleased to announce our first traveling film festival available in the spring 2007.
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Festival Begins:
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2007-01-24
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Festival Ends:
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2007-05-24
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Submission Deadline:
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2007-01-24
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Full Festival Description:
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This four-film series will examine the treacherous world of border-crossing and what life is like for those who make it. Through award winning documentary films, Immigration provides a near “participant observation" into the reality of those seeking a new life in the U.S.
Poignant, unsettling, and at times disturbing, this festival will bring a new awareness of the immigration debate to your students, community organization and patrons.
Rental of the festival includes posters and postcards advertising the festival, as well as a curriculum guide for each movie. The festival can be screened for audiences as free and open to the public or with a requested donation as a fundraiser. Directors may also be available for screenings at your site.
If you have any questions, please contact Brian Knighten at brian@lasamericasfilms.org
Titles include:
EL INMIGRANTE
Directed by: John Sneedy, David Eckenrode, John Eckenrode, Rick Carlson
USA/Mexico, 2005, 90 mins.
El Inmigrante is a documentary film that examines the Mexican and American border crisis by telling the story of Eusebio de Haro, a young Mexican migrant who was shot and killed during one of his journeys north. The film presents a distinct humanitarian focus in which story and character take precedent over policy and empiricism. Towards this end “El Inmigrante” examines the perspectives of a diverse cast of players in this border narrative. A cast which includes the de Haro family, the community of Brackettville, Texas–where Eusebio was shot, members of vigilante border militias in Arizona, the horseback border patrol in El Paso, and migrants en route to an uncertain future in the United States.
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WETBACK: THE UNDOCUMENTED DOCUMENTARY
Directed by: Arturo Perez Torres and Heather Haynes
USA/Mexico/Nicaragua, 2005, 90 mins
Wetback follows in the footsteps of immigrants traveling from Nicaragua to the United States. On their journeys, they encounter gangs and vigilantes, as well as border patrol. The limited to interference, the director follows these individuals as they navigate real-life nightmares with uncanny calm, grace, even humor.
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DE NADIE
Directed by Tin Dirdamal
Mexico, 2005, 82 mins
Individuals who leave their countries in hopes of a better life in the United States have a rough road ahead of them. Mexican filmmaker Tin Dirdamal follows a number of refugees in a South-Mexican refugee centre, from where they hitch illegal rides on freight trains to the northern border. De Nadie won Sundance’s Audience Award for World Cinema in 2006 and has been the official selection at festivals around the world.
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THE GUESTWORKER
Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte
Directed by Cynthia Hill and Charles Thompson, PhD
US, 2006
The Guestworker tells the story of Don Candelario Gonzalez Moreno, a 66-year old Mexican farmer who has been coming to the U.S. since the 1960s as a farm laborer. He is some twenty to forty years older than all the thousands of Mexican men who work in today’s United States’ H2A Guest Worker program started in 1986. Despite his age, he continues to work long hours in tobacco, cucumber, and pepper fields, sweating and worrying – all for his family, particularly his ailing wife. He says he still wants to work “harder than all the others” as he did when he was a younger man, but now knows he just can’t.
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Contact Name:
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Brian Knighten
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Contact Email:
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Retrieve Email Address
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Contact Phone:
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410-462-1410
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Contact Fax:
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801-340-7462
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Street:
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1717 Linden Avenue, Suite 1
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City:
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Baltimore
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State (if in U.S.):
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Maryland
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Country:
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United States
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Statistics
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Festival Added to Directory On:
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January 24, 2007
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Homepage Hits:
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